chocolate

This book answers the question, How is chocolate made? From tropical cacao fields to the chocolate factory, it gives readers an inside look at the process from start to finish.

In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.

After reading this book, the word "chocolate" may bring to mind not only candy and ice cream, but also lizards, fungi, and monkeys--all part of the cocoa trees' ecosystem. Includes further information on cocoa and rainforests and suggestions to help save rainforests.

"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--Provided by publisher.

" ... explores chocolate's fascinating history. Along the way you'll meet colorful characters like the feathered-serpent god Quetzalcoatl, who gave chocolate trees to the Aztecs; Henri Nestl?, who invented milk chocolate while trying to save the lives of babies who couldn't nurse; and the quarrelsome Mars family, who split into two warring factions, one selling Milky Way, Snickers, and 3 Musketeers bars, the other Mars Bars and M&M's. From its origin as the sacred, bitter drink of South American rulers to the familiar candy bars sold by today's multimillion dollar businesses, people everywhere have fallen in love with chocolate, the world's favorite flavor"--Amazon.com.

The Monroe family animals suspect that Bunnicula is up to his old tricks when a pan of fudge turns white.

Describes where chocolate comes from and how it is made.

Presents the development of chocolate from its origin of cocoa beans in ancient South America to its current widespread use and production.

If Mason and Hannah can win first prize at the annual Chocolate Expo, they may be able to save their parents' shop. When Cocoa, the candy-crazy Labrador enters the kitchen, the children may have more trouble than they can handle.

As spring arrives in the Candy Kingdom, Cocoa the Chocolate Fairy is honored to be selected to make the chocolate eggs for the royal parade, but a selfish troll has other plans.