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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : callen610's -2009 | | 115 | callen610, November 8 |  |
| Read YA Lit : What is your favorite YA title? | | 187 | fullofsound, November 5 | |
| Book talk : Books made into movies | | 107 | Ape, October 25 | |
| Awful Lit. : Books to be struck from HS reading lists! | | 263 | dukeallen, October 22 | |
| Book talk : Ok, this is a good one. What is the most disturbing book you have read? | | 389 | Phlox72, September 17 | |
| Awful Lit. : I can't believe I wasted my time on this... | | 465 | Hunterin, September 14 | |
| Banned Books : did reading a banned book ever corrupt you? | | 66 | CliffordDorset, September 2 | |
| 999 Challenge : Fredanria's (attempted) | | 23 | VictoriaPL, August 26 | |
| BookCrossing Australia! : Group reading log: July 2009 | | 123 | Miss-Owl, August 21 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : The one and only | | 54 | rolandperkins, August 14 | |
| Literary Snobs : Your current reading for the 2nd Quarter , 2009 ? | | 411 | kswolff, June 2 | |
| Children's Fiction : Worst movie from a children's book | | 130 | keeneam, May 24 | |
| Read YA Lit : Teen Books for Adult Readers | | 103 | cpfell, May 12 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game - Part 20 | | 504 | hemlokgang, April 26 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game - Part 9 | | 403 | thesmellofbooks, April 15 | |
| Children's Fiction : Classics | | 46 | SusieBookworm, March 27 | |
| Read YA Lit : Do not want pseudo-vampires and magicians. Anything actually unique and entertaining to read? | | 22 | enheduanna, March 6 | |
| Read YA Lit : Unique reads for February? | | 16 | Whisper1, March 4 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : The Gathering Place--2009 thread #2 | | 241 | mckait, February 18 | |
| Sunset YA Book Talk : What book is on your nightstand now? | | 163 | ggfuatuiwwgiac, January 23 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : KPlatypus: Going for 150 in 2008 | | 100 | Kplatypus, January 8 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Feed me, Seymore!! | | 23 | mamalaz, January 2 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : GeorgiaDawn's 2008 Challenge | | 190 | GeorgiaDawn, January 2 | |
| Read YA Lit : Ultimate Teen Reading List | | 26 | TeenLibris, November 2008 | |
| Banned Books : Don't want to get political. | | 86 | MerryMary, October 2008 | |
| Book talk : Guess the book v3.0 | | 303 | dreamlikecheese, August 2008 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game - Part 8 | | 373 | moibibliomaniac, July 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : 3m3m's 80 books in '08 | | 23 | AMQS, July 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008 | | 119 | rachbxl, July 2008 | |
| Read YA Lit : April 2008 -- What Are You Reading? | | 56 | HelloAnnie, May 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books and Authors Suggestions - April / May 2008 | | 17 | avaland, April 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : punkypower's 2008 list | | 30 | punkypower, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have you been bad recently (bought any books), Part 4 | | 431 | clamairy, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : sailordanae 2008 | | 13 | sailordanae, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : February 2008 -- What are you reading? | | 51 | araKnid, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Books read in 2007: MrStevens | | 59 | 1Frog1, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : High school curriculum | | 123 | aviddiva, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : ?? Book Challenge | | 4 | MrStevens, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Junior High Classics? | | 22 | Schmerguls, January 2007 | |
... Isabel Allende
Zarafa by Michael Allin
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Chocolate by Mort Rosenblum ... book of short stories, and we did the poetry of the guy who wrote The Road Less Travelled. Oh, and I think we did The Chocolate War as well. ... Splendid Suns, The Poisonwood Bible, etc...) and just HAD to cleanse my palette with some lighter stuff. So I read Chocolate, some Jane Austen and....uh...um....the Twilight series. Of course, all in the name of research into what my 6th grade students are into. ;)
Sometimes it's ... OK...back to a note on War by Todd Komarnicki - finished a couple of weeks back. A spare, terse novel from the POV of an anonymous soldier in an anonymous war in an anonymous city. The narrator enlists as an alternative to jail and finds himself bunked up in an abandoned hotel in w/ a group of ... The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. read it a while ago and liked it a lot.
... Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
8. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
9. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
This is possibly the only list that has books I haven't checked and made sure I'll ... I agree with The Hunger Games! Also, what about The Chocolate War or Tangerine too? ... I’m just putting them down as I see them in my library.
--I second Generation Dead. Don't judge it by its cover.
The Chocolate War It starts off as a dare, but one guy bucks the system of education. He refuses to sell candy for the high-school fundraiser, no matter the cost. There’s ... ... and the Ice Storm! Bookstore tomorrow!
Additions I didn't see on the list:
Brave New World
Brighton Rock
The Chocolate War
Cabal made into the movie, "Nightbreed"
Casino Royale
The Haunting of Hill House
And Then There Were None
In Cold Blood
Flowers in the Att ... ...picturing a dog with a book called The Cigar Roller in its mouth.....My dog's taste would run more to The Chocolate War or Cinnamon Buns (if there were such a title). ... (Historical Fiction)
bought this month, TBR
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (Fiction)
read long ago
THE CHOCOLATE WAR by Robert Cormier (Fiction)
TBR
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon (Mystery)
read this year, highly recommended!
... ... Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Pigman by Paul Zindel
Plus:
Anything by Stephen King
Everything by J.K. Rowling
Just about everything by Roald D ... The Chocolate War. It's so different from all the other YA books I've read. Robert Cormier is one of my favorites. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier #48 The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 272 pages
Total Pages = 15543 ... pp.)
58. Bear starsh.gif by Marian Engel (1976, 141 pp.)
59. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005, 198 pp.)
60. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (1974, 263 pp.)
61. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955, 327 pp.) The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Question to the forum, re: Separate Peace, The Chocolate War, Catcher in the Rye et al.
Why is the public school fascination with private schools?
Whenever I read any of those book in public school, I would invariably start comparing the oak lined rooms in the books with the ... The Chocolate War? koala, The Chocolate War is one of my favorite books as well.
Have you read I am the Cheese? Just as heart-stopping! The Chocolate War. It is not a sugar-coated YA novel.
Being a young adult myself, I'm sure others will read it as well. ... the Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
This, on the other hand, was really good. It continues the story told in The Chocolate War, reviewed back in message 56, and is similar in tone, style, etc. An unrelenting, unflinching look at high school, this book is an excellent look at the ... I was gonna read the chocolate war . . . and then I didn't.
I'll bring season one next time I see you . . . No idea when that will be, but if it melts in Ray's car I will shoot someone . . . seriously! It probably wouldn't be either of you guys becasue I still like you guys. So that would ... I am the Cheese was good. While I thought The Chocolate War and We all Fall Down were just kind of mediocre...
I'm reading The Sky Inside, which may possibly be the name of my new band very soon.... ... of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
My god, what is it with that woman?
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
And what is it with the sweet-tooth violence? Hmm....
... what I've gotten through thus far:
Coe Booth - Tyrell
Margo Lanagan - Black Juice
Robert Cormier- The Chocolate War
Nancy Farmer- The house of scorpion
I couldn't put Tyrell down. Such a true portrayal of life for many inner cities teens. ... here. Lots of us talk about how out of control it is.
Re books of the authors I recommended in #2:
Joanne Harris: Chocolate, Coastliners, Five Quarters of the Orange
Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits especially
Margaret Atwood - anything
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poi ... ... and these jokes will normally increase the level of warning before that episode is shown. When is comes to the book The Chocolate War (a constantly challenged book), for example, there is no warning and there are no parents to turn the book off (so to speak) and keep their young ... Aha! I think your journal is the one where I read about The Chocolate War! Last night I was going a little bit crazy trying to remember. I wholeheartedly agree with you- what a great book! I too went to Catholic school and wish I could have read this back then. I'll definitely have to check ... 46. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
Jerry Renault is a freshman at Trinity High School. Things are going well for him at school until he receives an "assignment" from the Vigils, the school's secret society: When the school's annual chocolate sale begins, don't sell the chocolates. ... Even getting it to ten was rough for me! : /
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Middlesex by Jeffery Eunginides
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
... ... I never got a chance to read the Night World books! thank goodnes they're coming back in print!! **flees**
The Chocolate War. I plan on getting all of Cormier's books.
It's Kind of a Funny Story likewize on Vizzini!
Tithe and Valiant are awesome..I'm restraining ... ... Non-Orthodox. Her new best friend is Catholic, and she is smitten. She decides to give up being Jewish for Lent.
16. The Chocolate War
Ever wonder what happened if Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" were written as a novella? This would be it! Holy crap, I just finished ... ... a
JF: Gossip of the Starlings Early Reviewer
JF: The Halloween Tree YA
JF: Confessions of Closet Catholic YA
JF: The Chocolate War YA
CR: Beyond the Chocolate War YA
LF: Siddhartha
LF: Lost Horizon
LF: Geek Love
LF: The Wanderers
LF: Breakfast at Tiffany's
LF: A Clo ... I just finished The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, and I found it very realistic (and thus, very disturbing).
It was as if Shirley Jackson's The Lottery had been made into a novella...
Now, I'm trying to decide what to read next:
American Psycho
The Secret History
Choke 3. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.
A short, grim novel that deserves its placement in the modern YA canon. The characterization is easily its strongest point, as each character is unique and well-fleshed out for such a short book. Cormier doesn't stint on other parts either. Don't ... ... from Amazon this week:
1. The Artist's Way
2. The Artist's Way Workbook
3. Lolita
4. The Secret History
5. The Chocolate War
6. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--I lost my old copy
7. What Was She Thinking
8. The Halloween Tree
9. Confessions of a Closet Catholi ... 2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... ... halse anderson
maus by art spiegelman
ender's game by orson scott card
looking for alaska by john green
the chocolate war by robert cormier
hole in my life by jack gantos
boy meets boy by david levithan
the giver by lois lowry
i chose them because i think ... The Outsiders and anything else by SE Hinton
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Dracula by Bram Stoker
I did not enjoy the movie version of The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. ... is the list of books I've read so far this year. My favorite, so far, has been The Remains of the Day.
1.
Title: The Chocolate War
Author: Robert Cormier
Title: Classic boy coming of age story. A very controversial book about authority figures and bullies at private religious ... ...
Oh, btw. Why do people call it a 50 Book Challenge? Is it to read 50 books a month? That seems like quite a lot. o.O
1. The Chocolate War
2. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
3. I am the Cheese
4. Island
5. Life of Pi
6. Piano, Guided Sight-Reading
7. The Rema ... ... late sixties with the publication of The Outsiders. Other classics or would be classics might be Catcher in the Rye, The Chocolate War, Flowers for Algernon, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, The Pigman, A Separate Peace, etc.
You might be interested (in ... The Chocolate War!! I'm a librarian and have an interest in children's lit and have been unable to read that book. Although each time I get a little further, from a few pages to a chapter, but ugh!! ... for beloning and absolute security. But do those people really believe that if their kids don't read or know of books like Chocolate war, then ...what? OK, I know - the books in question are seen as "blasphemous". But in my mind those people are no better than you know who - all extremists are ... ... includes Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, and Tom Sawyer. Just the other day we were told that if we taught The Chocolate War, we would essentially be putting our jobs on the line.
While Harry Potter has been used in the past, I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole in the ... Kromes, we read that book when I was 15. I'm trying to think of others... there was the Chocolate War when I was 13 or so, and um... it's been a while I'll have to think about it for a bit. In our Young Adult Lit class we're reading:
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Crews by Maria Hinojosa (non-fiction)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hin ... ... either no character development, or inconsistent development.
"Classics" I hated: Wuthering Heights, My Antonia, The Chocolate War, Native Son.
And two fantasy/SF books I could do without: Eragon (just couldn't get into it) and The Golden Compass.
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