Their quirks bring them to life and make the story a great lark.Īll Four Stars is perfect for middle-grade lovers but also for dessert lovers. Eng, who runs a gourmet grocery store to her teacher, who is dedicated to schools that are not succeeding to the boy next door, who becomes Gladys’s partner in her mad restaurant-reviewing scheme. However, Gladys has plenty of support from Mr. Gladys’s parents and their cooking mishaps are ridiculous in the fine tradition of ridiculous adults in children’s literature. The cast of characters are all, by turns, endearing and funny.
Gladys will try plan after plan in her attempt to succeed. Sneaking into NYC to get into a high end restaurant where eleven-year-olds with no adults and no reservations are not wanted? No problem. Her confidence never fades throughout the story. She is motivated, dedicated, and certainly very confident. Gladys is a spunky heroine who draws in readers from the start, when they first meet her trying to make a perfect dessert with her father’s blowtorch. But the story is so fun, you’ll want to overlook all that. The premise, if looked at too closely, does not make a lot of sense (no newspaper would hire an eleven-year-old by mistake–there are too many legal forms). Instead, she’s sneaking around trying to find a way into NYC so she can write a secret review of a new dessert restaurant. Now Gladys is supposed to be going outside and making friends, like a “normal” middle school kid. And then immediately forbid her to use it. Only when she accidentally sets the kitchen curtains on fire do they discover her secret cooking talent. Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby is, unbeknownst to her fast food-loving parents, a foodie. Can Gladys write the review, hiding the fact that she’s only in sixth grade? Or will her parents catch onto her scheme before she can submit her story?Īll Four Stars is kind of a silly story, in the best possible way. But now she’s been contacted to write a restaurant review for a prestigious newspaper. Publisher: G.P.Gladys Gatsby loves eating and cooking gourmet food, but her fast food-loving parents have banned her from the kitchen. Give this one to your young foodies.” Product Details The triumphant conclusion makes this a tasty read.”
“Younger readers will be amused by Gladys’s reviews of her parents’ horrible cooking and her plot to get to New York City without alerting any adults. entertaining story about the joy of following one’s bliss.” “Gladys is a lovable character with plenty of spunk and desire, and readers will happily cheer her on, while the fresh plot adds a delicious dimension to the host of stories set in sixth grade.” NIELSEN, New York Times bestselling author of THE FALSE PRINCE: An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Middle Grade Summer ReadingįROM JENNIFER A.An Amazon Best Book of the Month: July 2014.
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