If you are looking for a book that features cooking and recipes, then Summer of a Thousand Pies is perfect.
But Shell’s pie shop is being threatened with overwhelming debt and Cady wants to do everything she can to rescue the new home and family she has come to love so much. But the best bit is Shell’s pie shop, where Cady can help out, learn to make pies and finally get to try some of the recipes she has collected over the years. But Cady’s aunt Shell is nothing like she expected, and having the freedom to eat as much as she likes and explore Shell’s property is a new experience for Cady. So when her dad is arrested and she is sent to live with her aunt, Cady knows she just has to survive a few months until her dad will come to get her. With diverse characters and a strong -if a little too headstrong at times- lead characters, Summer of a Thousand Pies is sure to delight young readers.Ĭady knows what it is like to go without, or to be judged for living in her dad’s van rather than a house like everyone else. A story about family and belonging, set amongst the backdrop of food, glorious food, Summer of a Thousand Pies touches on some deep and troubling themes such as homelessness, financial hardship, and the constant fear and struggle to belong faced by illegal immigrants. Summer of a Thousand Pies is a sweet middle-grade contemporary novel. But are there some things even the perfect pie just can’t fix? My thoughts Saving the business and protecting the first place she’s ever really felt safe will take everything she’s learned and the help of all her new friends. Then she finds out that Aunt Shell’s pie shop is failing. Now she’s staying in her mother’s old room, exploring the countryside filled with apple orchards and pie shops, making friends, and working in Aunt Shell’s own pie shop-and soon, Cady starts to feel like she belongs. Cady isn’t used to stability, or even living inside, after growing up homeless in San Diego with her dad. When twelve-year-old Cady Bennett is sent to live with the aunt she didn’t even know she had in the quaint mountain town of Julian, she doesn’t know what to expect.
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