the whizz pop chocolate shop by kate saunders

in] this enjoyable and moving romp through a magical London underworld.'- Publishers Weekly '- Booklist 'A quick pace and intricate plot twists keep excitement high. Praise for The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop ' This story has adventure, excitement, humor and magic, and will appeal to boys and girls alike.'- SLJ ' Reminiscent of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The fate of their family, and the world, depends on it. Now an evil gang is after the secret recipe, and it's up to Lily and Oz to stop them. The twins' great-great-uncles were famous chocolatiers, and their chocolate was ANYTHING but ordinary. Lily and Oz Spoffard have just inherited a magical house with a mysterious boarded-up chocolate shop on the ground floor. Enter a world filled with magical chocolate, evil villains, and an adventure twins Lily and Oz never could have dreamed. (Mar.Fans of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will adore Kate Saunders's new middle-grade adventure that is 'a whizz-pop chocolate romp' ( Kirkus Reviews). A quick pace and intricate plot twists keep excitement high, while the warm family dynamics, unexpected relationships, and thoughtful character development add just the right amount of depth to this enjoyable and moving romp through a magical London underworld. Learning that the chocolate their great-great-uncles made was no ordinary confection, and that one of them-wicked, immortal Isadore-is still alive and trying to supply a dangerous terrorist gang with immortality chocolate, the twins, along with an adventurous new friend, are pulled into the SMU’s quest to find and stop Isadore. unexplained that might be a threat to national security.” Eleven-year-old twins Lily and Oz Spoffard are introduced to the SMU by a talking cat when their family inherits, and moves into, their great-great-uncles’ house, which includes the remains of their once-famous chocolate shop. This entertaining English fantasy from Saunders (Magicalamity) reads as though conjured up by a clever child’s imagination, creating a world where, behind ordinary police and government forces, a Secret Ministry of the Unexplained (SMU) exists to handle goblins, ghosts, and “anything.

The whizz pop chocolate shop by kate saunders