The Chocolate War (Puffin Teenage Books) |
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Robert Cormier
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Pages: 224 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0141312513
Pub: Puffin Books
Pub date: 2001-08-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44326
Reader Reviews:
Courtesy of Teens Read Too (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is a horrifying story about a boy's school where there is literally a chocolate war.
A secret society of boys, which the administration has always turned their back on, takes over a school chocolate sale. The boys are all asked to sell fifty boxes at two dollars apiece instead of the normal twenty-five at a dollar. And the leader of the secret society is one of the students who is pushing the sale. And he tells one student to refuse to sell the chocolate for ten days, but on the eleventh he is to take them. And he doesn't.
This book is interesting, and has a lot of twists and turns. I can see why a lot of schools use this book to teach with. There are a lot of moral lessons and many things that can be learned. I enjoyed reading this, and would recommend it to anyone who has ever had bully problems.
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
Bullying... (not) your cuppa tea? (0/0 people found this helpful)
Did you ever wonder about bullying and being bullied? Maybe it has never happened to you but did you ever wonder what it would be like? This book showes you a fairly ordinary school situation and draws you into the dark world of being bullied... What triggers it? How do you handle it?
A book everyone should read to learn to what depths this sort of behaviour can lead.
Bullying! (0/0 people found this helpful)
Bullying
"The chocolate war", is a book about bullying. A buy named Jerry is bullied by a group named `The vigils'. Everybody in and around the school is not acting normal anymore, even the teachers. Some really sick games are played at the school. If you want to know why and what chocolate has got to do with all this, you should definitely read the book!
It is a very good book and it is easy to read. Once you have started you don't know how to stop! I can recommend it to all boys and girls between 14 - 16! It should really appeal to you and you will probably recognise things that may have happened at your own school!
If you want to read a good, enjoyable book, read this one!
The Chocolate War (0/0 people found this helpful)
The chocolate war
The chocolate war is a book about a boy named Jerry who does not want to take part in an assignment that the Vigils, a group at his school, told him to do. He has to sell chocolates but he refuses. He refuses and gets into a lot of problems. The Vigils make his life a living hell. This book is especially fun to read for pupils on secondary education. Most of the things that happen in the book take place at school. You are all familiar with pupils who are being bullied and that is what makes this story so interesting. Even the teachers do not act normal anymore and there are played some sick games. I promise you that when you read this book, and once you are `in' the story, you can't put it down again. I hope that you like the book just as much as I did.
I can recommend this to anyone, especially pupils in secondary school.
Kitty Dijkstra.
The Chocolate War and how it started. (3/3 people found this helpful)
After I read the book The Chocolate War i was really amazed about how Robert Cormier was not afraid to speak his mind and talk about things even print them to public which other people would not dare do in there lifetime. I also enjoyed reading his book, which had a very strong, and sturdy plot that you could always relate to, he also made very interesting characters that had very distinct attributes, which people of many ages could relate to. The story also gave you a new sense in the ways you should react to things and it helped you understand a little more about life. Overall I really enjoyed reading this phenomenal exhilarating educational story. One other very interesting thing about Robert Cormier is that his writing style is so different he can get you all into this one part of the book and just jump to a whole new scene in the same chapter now that's what I call daring.
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Books -> Subjects -> Children’s Books -> Ages 12-16 -> Authors -> Cormier, Robert
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