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The chocolate war

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  • Running Time: 05:43 hrs
    Narrator: Frank Muller
    Publisher:
    Listening Library, Distributed by OneClick Digital, 2011
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Cormier, Robert
    Contributor: Ingram Digital (Firm); Müller, Frank
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    Summary:

    Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormier's chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys' boarding school is no less relevant today than it was in 1974. Stunned by his mother's recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life, Jerry Renault, a New England high school student, ponders the poster in his locker. Do I dare disturb the universe? Part of his universe is Archie Costello, leader of a secret school society, the Virgils, and master of intimidation. Archie himself is intimidated by a cool, ambitious teacher into having the Virgils spearhead the annual fund-raising event, a chocolate sale. When Jerry refuses to be bullied into selling chocolates, he becomes a hero, but his defiance is a threat to Archie, the Virgils, and the school. In the inevitable showdown, Archie's skill at intimidation turns Jerry from hero to outcast, to victim, leaving him alone.

    Original Publisher: [New York], [Prince Frederick, Md.], Listening Library, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780739345078, 0739345079