Because it is my blood by Zevin, Gabrielle 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012)

BTSB #: 980197 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.5 UG RC: 4.7 9-12 Lexile: 640 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Organized crime - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Celebrities - Fiction Violence - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Science fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico) - Fiction Mexico - Fiction

Summary: In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.

Because it is my blood by Zevin, Gabrielle 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01951 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Organized crime - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction Mexico - Fiction

Summary: In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.

Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2016)

BTSB #: 863495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Blacks - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Chocolate chase [Geronimo Stilton Volume: #67]by Stilton, Geronimo 

Paperback New title.(Scholastic, 2020)

BTSB #: 855202 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.9 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610

Genres: Chapter Books Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Mice - Fiction Theft - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Mystery fiction

Summary: [#67] New Mouse City has a special exhibition of priceless jeweled Mouseberge eggs. One of the Mouseberge eggs was stolen and it is up to Geronimo Stilton to find it!

Chocolate chase. #67 [Geronimo Stilton Volume: #67]by Stilton, Geronimo 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2020)

BTSB #: 855109 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.9 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610

Genres: Chapter Books Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Mice - Fiction Theft - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Mystery fiction

Summary: [#67] New Mouse City has a special exhibition of priceless jeweled Mouseberge eggs. One of the Mouseberge eggs was stolen and it is up to Geronimo Stilton to find it!

Chocopocalypse by Callaghan, Chris 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 183734 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.5 MG Lexile: 790 F&P: R

Genres: Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Chocolate - Fiction Food supply - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Humorous fiction Mystery fiction

Summary: 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.

Dragon with a chocolate heart by Burgis, Stephanie 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2017)

BTSB #: 173451 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 840

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Animals

Subjects: Dragons - Fiction Magic - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction

Summary: After drinking enchanted hot chocolate, a brave young dragon is transformed into a twelve-year-old human girl with a passion for chocolate.

Girl with the dragon heart by Burgis, Stephanie 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 173450 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 860

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Spies - Fiction Kings and rulers - Fiction Fairies - Fiction Magic - Fiction Dragons - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Fantasy fiction

Summary: Silke has an unexpected opportunity to learn what happened to her parents years before when Princess Katrin asks her to stay at the palace as a spy during a visit from the rulers of Elfenwald.

Grandpa Cacao : a tale of chocolate, from farm to family by Zunon, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 984875 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-6   
AR: 4.3 LG RC: 5.4 K-2 Lexile: 820 AD

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Cacao - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Cake - Fiction Family life - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: As a little girl and her father work together to make her birthday cake, he tells the story of her Grandpa Cacao, a farmer from the Ivory Coast. Includes author's note and a cake recipe.

In the age of love and chocolate by Zevin, Gabrielle 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2013)

BTSB #: P02282 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Organized crime - Fiction Nightclubs - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Celebrities - Fiction Violence - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Anya's new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. Surviving a crime-ridden New York City in the 2080s is looking harder and harder for Anya.

Tree of dreams by Resau, Laura 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 747117 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 850

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Cocoa trade - Fiction Forest conservation - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Amazon River Region - Fiction Ecuador - Fiction Colorado - Fiction

Summary: 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 the plight of the native people and their jungle gives her a new perspective and purpose in life.