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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Aladdin paperback edition October 2011

Text copyright © 2011 by Helen Perelman Bernstein

Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Erica-Jane Waters

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Designed by Karin Paprocki

The text of this book was set in Berthold Baskerville Book.

Manufactured in the United States of America 0911 OFF

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Library of Congress Control Number 2011932360

ISBN 978-1-4424-0825-8

ISBN 978-1-4424-0826-5 (eBook)

For Karli and Hana Grace Meyer

Contents

CHAPTER 1:
Sweet Thoughts

CHAPTER 2:
The Chocolate Scepter

CHAPTER 3:
Chocolate Clues

CHAPTER 4:
Spreading Chocolate

CHAPTER 5:
Chocolate Bash

CHAPTER 6:
Chocolate Storm

CHAPTER 7:
Chocolate Thoughts

CHAPTER 8:
The Power of Chocolate

CHAPTER 9:
Chocolate Cleanup

CHAPTER 10:
Chocolate Dip

C
ocoa smiled as she flew across Chocolate Woods. The sun was shining and the air was full of sweet, rich chocolate scents. The Chocolate Fairy spread her golden wings and glided down to Chocolate Falls.
Yum
, thought Cocoa as she licked her lips. There was nothing better than fresh milk chocolate.

“Cocoa!” Melli the Caramel Fairy called. “Over here!” Melli was sitting underneath a chocolate oak tree. She waved to get Cocoa's attention.

Waving back, Cocoa fluttered down to her friend's side. Melli was always on time—or early. She was a shy fairy, but her sweet caramel nature was part of what kept their group of friends sticking together—no matter what.