Each person reveals their motives, and together with Logan, they come up with a plan to help Phillip win the competition and save the factory.Īt the competition, the children have insight into the judges’ deliberations because of Daisy’s spy connections. He makes a bet with his father that if he wins the competition, his father will leave the factory alone.Īll of the perspectives combine when Daisy tries to replace the secret ingredient, Phillip tries to thwart the spy’s efforts to steal the ingredient, and Miles sees some commotion coming from the area during his sleepover at the factory. Phillip’s father reveals that he plans to steal the secret ingredient, and Phillip, having a change of heart toward the factory and Logan after he learns he was never really banned, tries to thwart these efforts.

Phillip believes that he was banned from the factory as a child after Logan dropped a toy in some machinery and blamed it on him he wishes to take revenge on Logan by winning the competition. Rather than a candy maker, Phillip is actually a music lover who plays the violin expertly in secret, fearing that his money-hungry father won’t approve of his hobby.

He is rude and scribbles secretively in his notebook. Phillip is the last competitor, and he refuses to fraternize with the other children. After getting to know Logan and Miles, however, she decides that she’d rather replace the ingredient with soap to sabotage anyone else’s efforts at recreating the factory’s signature chocolate. Miles and Logan quickly become friends, and Logan invites him to spend the night at the factory with him.ĭaisy, another competitor, is actually a spy hired by Phillip’s father to steal the Life is Sweet’s secret chocolate ingredient. He imagines an afterlife for the girl, which his mind retreats to when he becomes too anxious. Because of this experience, he lives very cautiously and constantly thinks about how anything he does might be fatal. Miles, another competitor, is a fearful boy who once witnessed a girl drowning in a lake. Even though he has grown up around candy, he finds that candy making doesn’t come easily to him, and he wishes to prove his worth as a candy maker to his father by winning the competition. He is the Life is Sweet candymaker’s son, and he has lived his entire life in the factory, though he has mysterious scars all over his body. Logan is the protagonist, and the novel begins and ends with his story. The Life is Sweet candy factory hosts the four contestants before the competition and allows them to use the factory facilities to create their candy the story is told in five parts from each of the children’s perspectives. The Candymakers follows four 12-year-old contestants who are competing in an annual candy competition-Logan, Miles, Daisy, and Philip.

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