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Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and M16 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
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<p><b>Fans of Roald Dahl’s <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i> will adore Kate Saunders’s new middle-grade adventure that is “a whizz-pop chocolate romp” (<i>Kirkus Reviews).</i></b><br><b> </b><br>Enter a world filled with magical chocolate, evil villains, and an adventure twins Lily and Oz never could have dreamed. . . .<br> <br>Lily and Oz Spoffard have just inherited a magical house with a mysterious boarded-up chocolate shop on the ground floor. The twins’ great-great-uncles were famous chocolatiers, and their chocolate was ANYTHING but ordinary. In fact, it had magical properties.</p><p>Now an evil gang is after the secret recipe, and it’s up to Lily and Oz to stop them. The fate of their family, and the world, depends on it.<b><u><br></u></b></p><p><b><u><br></u></b></p><p><b><u>Praise for </u><i><u>The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop</u></i></b></p><p><br> “<b>This story has adventure, excitement, humor and magic, and will appeal</b> to boys and girls alike.”—<i>SLJ</i><br> <br> “<b>Reminiscent of Roald Dahl’s <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.</i></b>”—<i>Booklist</i><br><br> “A quick pace and intricate plot twists keep excitement high . . . [in] this <b>enjoyable and moving romp</b> through a magical London underworld.”—<i>Publishers Weekly<br></i></p>
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