Her teacher sees right through the “lack of passion” and gives her instructions to write what she truly desires to be in a letter form, as if she were applying for a job as a food critic. When Gladys’s teacher encourages her to write about her desired future career for an essay contest sponsored by the New York Standard newspaper (think New York Times) Gladys feels sure no one will believe her true desire to become a food critic so she writes about becoming a veterinarian. She earns a grounded-from-the-kitchen status, which she takes in stride along with her generally ignored position among her classmates. Unfortunately, Gladys’s culinary giftedness is lost on take-out-food parents, and Gladys finds she has cooked her own goose as far as kitchen privileges go in the first few pages of her would-be culinary career. How many sixth-grade girls do you know who could successfully ignite their parents’ kitchen curtains while putting the finishing touches on crème brulee with a blow torch and live to tell about it? Gladys Gatsby is an odd duck from the get-go.
Your name goes in the hat once if you leave a comment and twice if you tell me you are sharing on the social media of your choice. As a matter of fact, it IS All Four Stars (Penguin/July 2014) by Tara Dairman, and you’ll want to read it on a full stomach, lest you wear out your salivary glands before finishing it.īTW, Tara has offered to give away a surprise swag packet to the winner of a drawing. I can’t stop licking my lips over the most delicious middle grade novel I’ve read in a long while.
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