The Candy Shop War

This book is the story of four friends, Nate, Summer, Pigeon, and Trevor. They find themselves in an amazing adventure after involving themselves with just the wrong person.

Nate just moved to a new town and meets Trevor, Summer, and Pigeon. They say that they have a treasure-hunting club called the Blue Falcons and he joins. They became quite close in just the few days before school starts. After the first day of school they stop by a new candy shop in town called The Sweet Tooth Candy and Ice Cream Shoppe. The owner, Mrs. White is nice and makes all the candy herself! That explains why the treats are all delicious and creative. Since they only have a couple of cents, she has them do some cleaning in order to earn some larger treats. But Mrs. White “accidently” mentions her Secret Candy. It gets them wondering and so one day they ask her.

She says that they have to do secret missions in order to receive the candy. But of course with the types of candy she is willing to give, they will want to do the missions no matter how terrible. At first, they were more than willing to do the tasks that included: robbing a museum, robbing graves and then, whipping out someone’s memory! But they got Moon Rocks that make you weightless, just like you are on the moon, Shock Bits that electrify people, Sweet Tooth that make people believe what you say, Trick Candy to play pranks on people, Proxy Dust that can make you animate as a toy doll, Clean Slates that wipe out people’s memories, Frost Bites the freeze things, Ironhides that make your skin as hard as steel, Peak Performance that make you perform at absolute limits of your human capacity, Brain Feed that grants animals human intelligence to think and talk, and even Chocolate Balls that make you look like a different person. But the worst was White Fudge; she gave it to the kids to give to the parents so they didn't really care about them going out in the middle of the night! It makes them addicted and not really even care about what goes on around them! The person whose brain she wanted to whip out was Mr. Scott. He was a beloved candy and ice cream truck driver that had been around for years! Summer and Pigeon dropped out but Nate and Trevor stayed on to get to the bottom of what her plans were.


They decided what Mrs. White was doing was wrong so they decided to tell Mr. Scott and go on his side. He tells that they are both magicians, along with many others, that are all searching for the same treasure. When they turn on her they discover her evil wrath! Trevor and Nate tried to sneak into her lair using Mirror Mints that you can navigate through mirrors. Nate got out but Mrs. White stuck Trevor in there with no mint to get out! The kids meet a man, John Dart, that isn't a wizard but is trying to get the treasure away from the wizards. He is a smart man that knows what he is doing and tells them all the facts without hiding anything. The kids decide that the best bet would to go on his side because he seems to be the best possible bet. They still didn't turn all the way against Mr. Scott yet.


So Nate, Summer, and Pigeon have to go on a wild chase to get to the treasure first and to get Trevor out of the mirror! They find that Mrs. White is now using the three bullies instead of themselves. The kids, John, and magicians all have to work to get to the treasure first! I like that this book goes beyond the normal adventure and mystery of that kind of book. I love all the candy and how it has all the powers that it does. It makes me think of how fun it would be to have that!



My favorite character would have to be Nate. I like how his humor and fearfulness makes him who he is. He is willing to stand up to bullies and Mrs. White. He seems like kind of the leader of his little group even though he has just moved there.


This book has a great storyline and adventure to it so I hope you might want to read it sometime.