Best Selling Books by Patrick Skene Catling

John midas loves chocolate. He loves it so much that he''ll eat it any hour of any day. He doesn''t care if he ruins his appetite. He thinks chocolate is better than any other food But one day, after wandering into a candy store and buying a piece of their best chocolate, John finds out that there might just be such a thing as too much chocolate. . . .

John Midas, hero of THE CHOCOLATE TOUCH, wins a video horror competition, and his prize is a family holiday in Gothic World, a lavish theme park in Transylvania. But no experience is too much for John - or is it?

While visiting the site of sacred cave paintings in the middle of the Australian outback, John Midas slips back thousands of years and finds himself among a prehistoric aboriginal tribe.

An adventure story with a strong conservation theme, featuring John Midas, hero of The Chocolate Touch. After visiting the dentist, he finds he can hear radio signals through his tooth filling, and is soon on a quest to foil the ornithological crime of the century.

The travels of two young men--the white son of a wealthy cotton broker and his Black friend, Moses--from New Orleans, to Chicago, and finally to New York parallels the growth and spread of jazz