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This would be everyone's dream come true - a shop with the most amazingly delicious pies - apple, cherry, peach, lemon meringue, French silk, banana cream, custard, pecan, strawberry-rhubarb, custard - the list is endless. The pie fillings were extraordinary but it was the pie crust that had everyone talking. Got a craving for pie? Well, then just stop by Aunt Polly's Pie Shop and pick out a pie. Remember to say thanks - no need to pay - Aunt Polly bakes pies because it makes people happy. And everyone in Ipswich, Pennsylvania was very happy . . . until Aunt Polly died and the shop closed. Aunt Polly's niece Alice had helped her in the pie shop for years, gathering the ingredients, pricking the pie crusts just so and tending to anything that needed tending to. Everyone assumed the pie crust recipe was written down and everyone wanted to be the one to have it. Because with that recipe they could be the next winner of the Blueberry Award. Aunt Polly had won 13! Alice and her friend Charlie find themselves in the middle of a major mystery revolving around the cat Lardo and the missing pie-crust recipe. You will never guess how it all unfolds!
Awards nominated: 2014 Bluestem Nominee
Reviewed by: adf
Date read: 8/7/2012
ISBN-10: 0545270111
ISBN-13: 9780545270113
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Well Written and a Good Audio Book Experience!Commenter: Jill, grade 39
This book made me want to live in Ipswitch so that I could taste Aunt Polly's delicious pies! I loved hearing the songs that Alice made up on the audio book.
Pirate Bob
Kathryn Lasky (2006), 32 pages
Illustrated by David Clark
Audience: Preschool - 3rd Grade
'Shivers me' timbers!!!' If you want to grow up to become a pirate, this book, 'Pirate Bob' by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by David Clark is the perfect book for you. This book will teach you all you need to know to become a dagger carrying, sword slashing, and treasure stealing pirate. But there is always one problem when you're a pirate. Do your pirate friends like YOU or do they like your buried treasure even better? Have fun riding on the high seas with Pirate Bob and his friend Yellow Jack!
Similar authors: Melinda Ling; Richard Walker; Terry Deary
Similar books: Pirates Don't Change Diapers by Melinda Long;
Pirates Eat Porridge by Christopher Morgan;
Pirates by Rachael Hanel;
Pirates and Robbers of the High Seas by Gail Gibbons;
Pirates, Ho! by Sarah L. Thomson;
Port Side Pirates by Oscar Seaworthy
Reviewed by: mb
Date read: 7/11/2011
ISBN-10: 9781570915956
ISBN-13: 9781570915956
Please Write in This Book
Mary Amato (2006), 112 pages
Illustrated by Eric Brace
Audience: 2nd Grade - 4th Grade
Ms. Wurtz leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner of her classroom, with the instructions that students write to each other in it, but to tell no one that it's there! With this begins a secret feud among the various members of the class who think the book should be used only the way they think it should be. Will it be stories and pictures of rabbits, rainbows, and ballet or stories and drawings of mucus, worms, smelly feet, and robots?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 3/19/2010
ISBN-10: 0823419320
ISBN-13: 9780823419326
Fourteen-year-old Mia has a pretty normal life. She does wish, though, that she had a boyfriend and that her mom wasn't dating her algebra teacher! One day, out of the blue, her father comes to visit her and announces that she is the princess of Genovia, a small European principality. Mia is sooo embarrassed! She tries to hide the fact that she is a princess from all of her classmates but suddenly her face is all over magazines and the press starts swarming her school. Mia finds out that being a princess is very complicated. Lots of people now want to be her friend because of her new status. The most popular boy in school asks Mia to go to the cultural diversity dance with him-which she is so thrilled about! Is life going to suddenly become wonderful for Mia? Read this book and the rest in the Princess Diaries series to find out. A good audio book as well.
Reviewed by: jb
Date read: 3/22/2012
ISBN-10: 0380978482
ISBN-13: 9780380978489
Quack!
Arthur Yorinks (2003), 24 pages
Illustrated by Adrienne Yorinks
Audience: Preschool - Preschool
This book 'quacks' me up! Told in the language of ducks, and illustrated by a series of fabric collages, Quack the duck goes to the moon. Most of the meaning in this book is expressed using variations of the word 'quack,' and readers will have fun interpreting the different quacks and their meanings. Since Quack 'quacked' his friends, and his friends 'quacked' him, he came back!
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/28/2009
ISBN-10: 0810935481
ISBN-13: 9780810935488
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