Pages- 1-452 (End)
Prompt: What was the story about? Give an Overall Summary of the book.
The Candy Makers is a mystery with many twists and turns, and here is what it's about!
There are four main characters in the book; Logan, Miles, Daisy, and Phillip, and there is a section of the book for each character explaining their point of view on what is happening. The story starts out as Logan's Point of View. Logan is the Candy Makers son, and his family owns a Candy Factory. Every year, there is a country wide Candy making competition for kids 12 years old, to create the best candy! The winner gets their candy created in the Candy factory of their choice, and sold for everyone to enjoy all over the country! Logan's Grandfather, and Father had both won this award, so he felt it was his responsibility to keep the trend going, and win for his family. Logan knew a lot about Candy, and the way it worked, but people didn't always take him seriously, because of an accident that happened when he was young. A boy came to the Factory for the Annual Factory Picnic, (which we would later find out was actually Phillip) and Logan and him instantly became friends. They were giving a tour of the factory and Phillip had this toy truck, and Logan wanted to see it, so he tossed it to Logan, and it fell in the chocolate, Logan went into the chocolate to try and retrieve the truck, but he ended up with burns all over his face and arms from the hot chocolate! So, some people kind of babied him because they felt bad. But he really wanted to win! Though, not all the contestants he was against felt the same way. Daisy was actually only there on a mission, as she was a SPY! She had been working as a spy ever since she was little, and her mission was to get the secret ingredient the factory used in Their chocolate. She didn't ever really see her parents and she didn't even know her own last name, and sometimes she didn't even want to be a spy, and wanted to just be a normal kid.
Now, Miles only joined the competition because he was into chemistry, and was never really social because of something he had witnessed a couple years prior, so his parents wanted him to be able to do something he enjoyed, and be able to interact with others at the same time. He was out on the lake on a rowboat with his parents and they were all having a good time and then this swarm of bees came towards the boat, but they passed them and kept flying towards the shore. There was a girl on the shore and she ran into the water to get away from the bees and she went under and never came up. Miles always thought that she died and wanted to win the competition for her, but he later found out that it was actually Daisy who had to swim across the whole lake for spy training and she didn't actually die. Though, Miles didn't know that until towards the end of the competition, so he made a bee candy in honor if her. Finally, there's Phillip. Now, at first Phillip only wanted to win the competition so that he could say that he won, but then it became much more. He found out that his father wanted the secret ingredient that the factory used for the chocolate to destroy the factory, but when Phillip found out, he made a deal with his dad that if he were to win the competition, then his dad would not try to ruin the factory in any way, and the deal was made. Phillip was a bit snooty in the way he acted towards the other competitors, and though he acted totally different, he had something in common with all of them; they all had grown a love for the factory! All the employees were so nice and helped them in anyway to create the best candy they could, and the factory just had an overall AMAZING atmosphere! So, on the night before the competition, Miles was having a sleepover in the factory with Logan, and Daisy and Phillip both snuck into the factory trying to make sure that nobody would get the secret ingredient, and they all ended up running into each other, and decided to come clean!
Daisy started off by blowing her cover as a spy, and telling them about her life as a spy, why she had come to the factory that night and what she was trying to do, and while explaining her training is when Miles realized that she was the girl who had "drowned" on the beach. Phillip explained that he was only there to try and get the secret ingredient before anyone working for his father could, which is when he found out that Daisy was the spy working for his dad. Then Phillip told them that he had to win the competition so his Father wouldn't ruin the factory, and explained their bet. Logan was a bit upset because he really wanted to win for his family, and he wanted to really share his candy with the whole country. Logan's Candy was the BubbletasticChocoRocket, which was supposed to go from chocolate to gum, and back again, but he couldn't get it to be able to go back to chocolate after it turned into gum, so he agreed to help Phillip, as did everyone else! So they worked all night and helped Phillip make a candy harmonica that really played! When they got the competition the next morning, there were lots of great candies, but the top runners were the BubbleTasticChocoRocket (Logan), The Harmonicandy (Phillip) and a Candy Ice Cream that the judges couldn't stop eating. Now, along with everyone's entry, they had to have a list of ingredients and a description of the candy. Later in the day, Logan was approached by a security member of the judges of the Candy, and he said that the judges said that if he changed his description of his candy from, "Starting with Chocolate, turning to gum and back again," to, " starting with Chocolate and turning into gum," then he would be the winner. Though, Logan knew that wasn't fair, so he turned down the offer. So it was between the Candy Ice cream, and the Harmonicandy. Though, the Candy Ice Cream had caffeine in it, which was a forbidden ingredient in the competition, so the Candy Ice Cream was disqualified and the Harmonicandy won!
In the end the "Life is Sweet" Candy Factory wasn't ruined or taken over by anyone, and there were four new Candy Makers; Logan, Miles, Daisy, and Phillip. They all ended up actually becoming great friends, and learned that the secret ingredient for the chocolate at the factory was actually nothing more than themselves and anyone and everyone else working at the "Life is Sweet" Candy Factory! 
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