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Milton Hershey
By: Jane Sutcliffe
A biography of the successful chocolate maker who built a town around his factory with unique housing for his workers and a school for disadvantaged students.

Milton Hershey: Hershey's chocolate creator
By: Joanne Mattern
Follow Hershey's success story from his apprenticeship at Royer's Ice Cream Parlor and Garden to his establishment of the Lancaster Caramel Company. Hershey's discovery of chocolate and determined creation of the Hershey bar also highlighted. Engaging text familiarizes readers with topics of interest including the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Milton Hershey School. An entertain sidebar, a helpful timeline, a glossary, and an index, supplement the historical and color photos showcased in this biography.

Betty Bunny loves chocolate cake
By: Michael B. Kaplan
From her first bite young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day, and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste.

The last chocolate cookie
By: Jamie Rix
Jack reaches for the last chocolate chip cookie but his mother reminds him that he must offer it to everyone else first, so Jack sets off and offers the last cookie to all sorts of people around the world.

The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop
By: Kate Saunders
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lilly 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.

The Chocolate Touch
By: Patrick Skene Catling
When John Midas acquires a magical gift, everything his lips touch turns into chocolate.

Chocopocalypse
By: Christ Callaghan
When news breaks of an ancient prophecy that predicts the world will run out of chocolate in six days, it is up to Jelly Welly and her Gran to prevent the chocopocalypse.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By: Roald Dahl
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

The Hershey's milk chocolate bar fractions book
By: Jerry Pallotta
Pieces of a Hershey's chocolate bar show how fractions work.


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