The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Can't believe I've never read this story as a teen.  It's awesome!  I was pretty hooked in the first chapter.  It's about some boys in a private high school and the main character is named Jerry Renault.  He's a football player and his mom's dead.  There's a secret group in school called The Vigils and they pull pranks in school.  For funding at the school, the boys are going to need to sell fifty boxes of chocolates and I'm not to the point where it's a "war."