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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
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"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.
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Secret series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest, who is desperately searching for a way to awaken her.
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Be careful what you wish for. . .Food writer Annie Wilkins is on an express elevator to fame and fortune, thanks to research scientist/husband Tom's remarkable invention: fat-free, carb-free, calorie-free chocolate that tastes better than the real thing! Once reduced to writing walleye-on-a-stick articles for Minnesota Menus, now she's living large in showcase houses and hobnobbing with the hoi polloi. Annie and "America's Sexiest Scientist" Tom happily...
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A young widow. A husband she thought she knew. On the picturesque Italian coast of Amalfi lies a chocolatier's destiny... San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken over the mysterious death of her husband, Celina Savoia, a second-generation chocolatiere, resolves to take their young son to Italy's shimmering Amalfi coast to introduce him to his father's family. Just as she embarks on a magical, romantic life of making chocolate by the sea surrounded by a loving...
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A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!
The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich and exotic as the gorgeous creation that Diego de Godoy first discovers when he arrives in Mexico with Cortes and his conquistadors.
Diego is seeking his fortune in the New World. What he finds is love, and chocolate, and an elixir of life. Separated from his lover, he must wander the world, and the centuries,...
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"England, 1814. Lady Arianna Hadley and her husband, the Earl of Saybrook, want nothing more than to savor a quiet life embellished by the occasional cup of the finest chocolate. However, when they receive orders to travel to Scotland and capture an elusive traitor, they feel their duty to the Crown must come first"--P. [4] of cover.
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Lady Arianna Hadley, now the Countess of Saybrook, is settling into married life with her new husband. To celebrate his birthday, she finds the perfect gift: a rare volume of botanical engravings on Theobroma cacao—or chocolate. But she is forced to fight off a stranger who tries to steal it away.
Arianna and Saybrook forget about the incident until they attend a gathering on a country estate, where her assailant reappears and turns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
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Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where...
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Nanny Piggins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
11) The sugar ball
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Candy fairies. Main series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
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"Everyone is talking about the Sugar Ball. Cocoa can't wait to show off her new chocolate wand and gown. But when she can't find her wand, she's worried. There's news that chocolate is spreading all over Sugar Valley. If only Cocoa knew who took the wand so she could stop the chocolate spell before the ball!" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Tales from the five kingdoms volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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On Gracie Gillypot's birthday, greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, and unless Gracie can find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg, the Five Kingdoms may succumb to evil magic and Total Oblivion.
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