The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate Saunders

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. Oz and Lilys family have inherited an ancient chocolate shop and theyre moving. 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.

Enter a world filled with magical chocolate, evil villains, and an adventure twins Lily and Oz never could have dreamed. 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. When eleven-year-old twins Lily and Oz (Oscar) Spoffard move with their parents into the London family home/chocolate shop of their dad’s great-uncles, they learn their family’s secret and. 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).

The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate Saunders