All Four Stars - Tara Dairman电子书mobi+epub
Product Details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 950 (What's this?)
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Puffin Books; Reprint edition (April 7, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142426369
ISBN-13: 978-0142426364
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Product Details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 950 (What's this?)
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Puffin Books; Reprint edition (April 7, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142426369
ISBN-13: 978-0142426364
“A scrumptious gem of a story!”—Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times bestselling author of The False Prince
Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York’s toughest restaurant critic. (Just don’t tell anyone that she’s in sixth grade.)
Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea! Now she’s eleven, and after a crème br?lée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She’s devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she’s mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys must cook her way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy and sneak into New York City—all while keeping her identity a secret! Easy as pie, right?
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Gr 4–7—Gladys's secret passion for cooking is discovered when she accidentally sets the kitchen curtains on fire trying to make crème brulee. The child has taught herself to cook to escape the fast-junk-food takeout that her parents bring home nightly. They don't share Gladys's interest in cooking, and wish that their daughter would do more "normal" kid things and make friends. But once her Parisian aunt introduces her to fine gourmet, she's hooked. When Gladys's class is challenged to enter an essay contest sponsored by the New York Standard newspaper, she writes her entry as a letter to its food editor. The letter is mistakenly given to the editor, who is desperate for a freelance restaurant critic. Not realizing that it came from a sixth grader, she emails Gladys inviting her to review a restaurant in New York City. The snag is that she must get there without her parents finding out. She hatches an elaborate plan that includes bribing the snobbiest girl in school, getting an invitation to an exclusive birthday party, and riding in a purple limousine. The plan goes disastrously and hilariously awry, but Gladys and fine food ultimately triumph. The characters are well drawn—the snob and her entourage; shy, quiet Gladys; her picky-eater friend, Parm; the literal boy next door, Sandy; and a teacher who brings out the best in her students. Give this one to your young foodies.—Nancy P. Reeder, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia, SC --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Gladys Gatsby is a foodie who cooks in secret because her parents prefer fast food to high cuisine. Then an incident involving a blowtorch, custard, and curtains lands her in hot water and gets her banned from the kitchen. To regain her parents’ trust, she tries to win the New York Standard essay contest by writing about her future as a veterinarian, until her teacher encourages her to be more creative and more honest. Gladys then writes a cover letter for her dream job—restaurant reviewer. This letter actually makes it to the dining editor, and Gladys is offered a job reviewing a fancy dessert restaurant in New York City, but how will she get there when she is only in the sixth grade? Gladys is a lovable character with plenty of spunk and ambition, and readers will happily cheer her on, while the fresh plot adds a delicious dimension to the host of stories set in sixth grade. Fans of foodie fiction should also check out Pie, by Sarah Weeks (2011) or A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff (2013). Grades 5-7. --Tiffany Erickson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"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. The triumphant conclusion makes this a tasty read." --Publishers Weekly
"The characters are well drawn—the snob and her entourage; shy, quiet Gladys; her picky-eater friend, Sandy; the literal boy next door; and a teacher who brings out the best in her students. Give this one to your young foodies." --School Library Journal
"A preteen restaurant critic is born. [An] entertaining story about the joy of following one’s bliss." --Kirkus Reviews
"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." --Booklist
About the Author
Tara Dairman is a playwright and recovering world traveler. She grew up in New York and received a B.A. in creative writing from Dartmouth College. She now lives with her husband in Colorado. This is her first novel.
Visit her at
www.taradairman.com and follow her on Twitter @taradairman
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