num_pages: 209
description: Every year, Trinity School runs a chocolate sale. Each boy volunteers to sell a quota of boxes in a fund-raising effort that is also a display of 'school spirit'. But this year it's different, because new kid Jerry Renault has refused to take part. This small act of defiance starts a chain reaction exposing the corruption running throughout the school. There is only one solution: Jerry must be destroyed.
language: English
title: The Chocolate War
titlecomplete: The Chocolate War
characters: David Caroni, Archie Costello, Brother Leon, Brian Cochran, Jerry Renault, Roland "The Goober" Goubert, Paul "Tubs" Casper, Obie, John Sulkey, Emile Janza
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Teen, School, Young Adult, Banned Books, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, High School
ratings_count: 44410
places: New England
series: Chocolate War
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Puffin