E-audiobook
The chocolate war
Record details
- ISBN: 0739345079
- ISBN: 9780739345078
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Edition: 30th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: [New York] : Listening Library, 2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 5:43:14. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Frank Muller. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 82214 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | High schools -- Fiction Schools -- Fiction High schools -- Juvenile fiction Schools -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Bildungsromans. |
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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.
