Publication Date: 1972
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 680L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level 0
Interest Level: Grades 3-5
Major Awards: Newbery Honor and California Young Reader Medal
Number of Pages: 96 pages
Approximate Word Count: 29,280 words
Audible Book Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
Book Themes: Self-indulgence Behavior, Overindulgence in Chocolate
Genre: humorous fiction
Setting: Henry's house and school, the hospital, hiway, Alfred Cane's Warehouse
Important Quote:
Henry Green was a boy who loved chocolate. He liked it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and every other form you could possibly imagine. Henry probably loved chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world.
First Line: There are some people who say that Henry Green wasn't really born, but was hatched, fully grown, from a chocolate bean.
Point of View: 3rd person point of view omniscient - A narrator tells the story. Throughout the book the author uses italics to tell Henry’s thoughts. This doesn’t start until Chapter 6 page 45. “A fine mess you’re in now, he thought. You’ve run. . .
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