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Awards!
ALA's Best Books for Young Adults
School Library Journal's Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Review's Choice
New York Times' Outstanding Books of the Year
Cormier recieved the Margaret A. Edwards Award (1991)
Annotation: A powerful, secretive organization called The Vigils controls the student body of Jerry Renault’s new school. He gets caught in the middle of a war of pride and power and winds up the victim of violence, fear tactics, and intense bullying.
Snap n' Read
Annotation: A powerful, secretive organization called The Vigils controls the student body of Jerry Renault’s new school. He gets caught in the middle of a war of pride and power and winds up the victim of violence, fear tactics, and intense bullying.
Snap n' Read
The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier
Jerry Renault just wants to play football, go to school, come home, and play more football. When he doesn’t follow the understood school hierarchy his life becomes more complicated. A single choice has made him the target of powerful bullies and to get even with Jerry they’re throwing out all the stops.
“Jerry hunched his shoulders, cocked his fist. He had been waiting for this moment, ever since Archie’s voice had taunted him on the telephone. But he hesitated now. How could he hit anyone, even an animal like Janza, in cold blood? I’m not a fighter, he protested silently.” But fight he does. Violence, fear, and a battle of wills and pride culminate into The Chocolate War.
Watch the trailer for the 1988 movie adaptation!
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The Chocolate War is one of the most controversial and most frequently censored books ever published! Does that make you want to read it even more?!?!
Praise and Criticism for The Chocolate War!
“Masterfully structured and rich in theme; the action is well crafted, well timed, suspenseful.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The characterizations of all the boys are superb.”—School Library Journal, Starred
“Compellingly immediate. . . . Readers will respect the uncompromising ending.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Click here to read why one blogger thinks this book has been so controversial and sometimes considered "dangerous."
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