SUMMARY: The Thea Sisters are visiting a friend in Ecuador who has a sweet job – he runs a chocolate factory! His factory is in the running for the Chocolate Cup, a major award for the highest-quality chocolate made in the country. But suddenly, chocolate production starts to malfunction. Is it sabotage? It’s up to the Thea Sisters to crack this candy-filled case! (from book jacket)

A quick read from a popular children's series (Thea Stilton) about a trip to the organic chocolate plantation in Ecuador which is in the running for the Chocolate Cup award. I like the dedication of the two owners of Cocoa Loco who do their best to keep to their high standards of organic gardening when everything around them start to go wrong. The story is a mystery of sorts and contains clues throughout. It also includes small factual pages throughout as well.

There are a lot of Stilton sisters and it is sometimes hard to keep up who is who. A counter-story of a long ago relationship sort of slow downs the story in places but serves its purpose to get the characters together and make at least one sister have a motive to be curious enough to track down answers to the mystery of strange occurrences at the chocolate factory.

ACTIVITY: As you read this story, you should have noticed the unique style of font used to highlight certain words in the story. The use of color and creative artistic style font emphasized the words. Try making your own illustrative words like the ones used throughout this book.

SPECIAL NOTE: Sweet potatoes can be used as organic (natural) pest control.

Added this fictional/fun title to LEARNING WITH CHOCOLATE (Homeschool Curriculum for the Whole Family) that I'm writing. ( )