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  • Published: 26 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780448479361
  • Imprint: Penguin Workshop
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $16.99

Who Was Milton Hershey?





It's a sweet life! Milton Hershey built a life--and a whole town!--around the success of his chocolate bars.

Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with invention and innovation.  As a young man, he was not afraid to dream big and work hard.  Eventually, he learned the secret to mass-producing milk chocolate and the recipe that gave it a longer, more stable shelf life.  He founded a school for those who didn’t have access to a good education and an entire town for his employees. Both his chocolate empire and his great personal legacy live on today.

  • Published: 26 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780448479361
  • Imprint: Penguin Workshop
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

James Buckley Jr.

James Buckley Jr. is one of the country’s most prolific writers of nonfiction for kids, with more than 200 titles to his name, including twenty in the New York Times bestselling Who Was…? biography series and nine books in the Show Me History graphic nonfiction series. James runs Shoreline Publishing Group, a leading producer of nonfiction kids’ books for national and school-library publishers. Shoreline has produced books about moviemaking, creating comic books, celebrity biographies, fashion design, and more. James lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he is the co-producer of the local production of Bloomsday, an annual salute to Irish author James Joyce.

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