I read this book for banned book week because I thought the reasons for the ban were hilariously trivial compared to other banned books. Overall I thought the story was rather good, I enjoyed intensity of the emotions. My only problem with this book was the ending, which I don't want spoil. My problem as not how it ended but because I felt it ended abruptly and that there should have been a more to it.
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Monday, September 29, 2014
The Chocolate War
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 191 pages
Jerry Renault is high school
student whose mother just recently died, and whose father seems lost even in his own home. When his school starts its annual fundraiser selling chocolates Jerry is the only student to refuse to participate. Meanwhile Archie Costello the leader of the secret
school society the Vigils finds
himself being coerced by the ambitious acting headmaster into making the Vigils responsible for the success of the sale.
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