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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Best friends and business partners Michelle and Erica have a monstrous to-do list as they prepare for the annual West Riverdale Halloween Festival. Their shop, Chocolates and Chapters, will have a booth at the event, where Michelle will serve spooky delights while Erica displays an assortment of spine-chilling books. Thank goodness the teenagers from Erica's comic-book club are chipping in to help. But one of their volunteers winds up in trouble after...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
If you follow a vegan lifestyle, your egg- and dairy-free diet doesn't have to stop you from enjoying the sweets you love. You just need innovative takes on classic recipes and the newest culinary trends. Now you can make your own delicious desserts with this cookbook! Featuring 300 irresistible recipes with complete nutritional information, you'll prepare everything from chocolate chip cookies to red velvet cupcakes, including: Whoopie Pies Whole-Wheat...
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This quirky collection of short stories by master storyteller Bradbury provides a fascinating kaleidoscope of his work up to the 1970s. While it inevitably includes tales of science fiction and fantasy including Martians transmuting into Christ figures, deserted worlds, and witches in New York, readers will also be surprised to find a mixture of mainstream fiction. Bradbury includes stories paying homage to Ernest Hemingway ("The Parrot Who Met Papa")...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Feeling guilty after accidentally breaking his friend's leg, Rocky Fletcher takes on extra duties at school, from selling chocolate bars and managing his injured friend's student council campaign to playing both offense and defense on the football team.
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Forrest Mars and Milton Hershey built business empires out of chocolate. In this history of the candy business, over eight years in the making, former Washington Post reporter Joel Glenn Brenner tells a unique story that is like chocolate itself, a rich blend of many compelling ingredients - in this case, biography and cultural history, investigative reporting and literary journalism. Along the way, Brenner takes us inside a world as mysterious as...
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Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
After accepting a job supplying chocolate from her aunt's luxury chocolate business to a party for unpopular defense attorney Clemintine Ripley, Lee McKinney's takes on a new job as detective when someone adds cyanide to a chocolate confection eaten by the hostess.
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Series
Pub. Date
20191015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School!
Did you know that the biggest chocolate bar weighed over 12,000 pounds? Did you know that you can stop yourself from crying while chopping onions by holding a slice of bread in your mouth?
Learn more weird-but-true food facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman's bestselling My Weird School series. This highly illustrated series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Best known for his general theory of relativity and the famous equation linking mass and energy, E = mc², Albert Einstein had a lasting impact on the world of science, the extent of which is illuminated--along with his fascinating life and unique personality--in this lively history. In addition to learning all about Einstein's important contributions to science, from proving the existence and size of atoms and launching the field of quantum mechanics...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Usually, microbes are equated with disease, but in fact most microbes are actually our allies. Learn how the microbes that are everywhere around us help us to survive every day. Although we are accustomed to equating the presence of microbes with disease, in fact most microbes play a vital "friendly" role in shaping our lives. It is not just that one hundred million microbes can populate a thimbleful of fertile soil, or that many millions live happily...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hershey's does it again! This tasty book by Jerry Pallotta introduces simple multiplication to children and will prove to be a multitude of fun and learning! Learn multiplication with a yummy Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar! With its 3 horizontal rows and 4 vertical columns, totaling 12 sections in all, children can easily begin to understand the concept of multiplication. Memorizing multiplication "facts" has never been so delicious.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Every year, Scottsdale's two elementary schools compete to see who can sell more bars of the Fantastic Five, special chocolate bar flavors available only once a year. Winning's a really big deal --and Deerfield Elementary always wins. This year, though, Granville Elementary is determined to level the playing field, even if it means making up some new rules of their own. Co-captains Phoebe and Evan are sure that their creative new sales strategy --mixed...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An entire generation was raised to believe that cooking meant opening a box, ripping off the plastic wrap, adding water, or popping it in the microwave. Gluten-Free Girl, with its gluten-free healthful approach, seeks to bring a love of eating back to our diets. Living gluten-free means having to give up traditional bread, beer, pasta, as well as the foods where gluten likes to hide-such as store-bought ice cream, chocolate bars, even nuts that might...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," She loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...