The Chocolate War

Right now I am reading, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. The book is about Jerry Renault, a freshman ant Trinity High School. Jerry refuses to sell chocolates in the annual school fund-raiser. His refusal to sell chocolates starts out as an assignment from a secret society within the school, but soon becomes an act of defiance to the society, called The Vigils. His act spurs several other students to follow his lead, and boycott the fund-raiser. This makes the Vigils, and the school administrators very uncomfortable, so they attempt to stop the fund-raiser boycott. The resistance to sell chocolates is significant, because there is twice as much chocolate as in the past, and it is also being sold for twice the usual price. All of the chocolate has to be sold, in order to keep the school running.
One of the things I think is interesting about the book is that, it doesn't just follow one character, it follows several different characters and their points of view. The author is very good at creating very different characters, with greatly differing mindsets. The uniqueness of the characters makes the conflict more significant, and more interesting. Overall, the book is fairly interesting, but I'm not sure I would recommend it, because it takes a while to actually get into the story and there isn't a whole lot of action in the first half of the book.