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"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 crme brle 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
About the Author
Tara Dairman is a novelist and recovering round-the-world traveler (two years, seventy-four countries!) . She grew up in New York, received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, and worked for several years as a magazine editor, managing freelance writers that she never met face-to-face. While in that job, Tara realized that she could probably be tricked into publishing an article by a kid if the writing was good enough and the kid sent professional-sounding e-mails. Voilà: the premise for her first novel, ALL FOUR STARS, was born.Two sequels continued 11-year-old restaurant critic Gladys Gatsby's foodie adventures (THE STARS OF SUMMER and STARS SO SWEET) . Then came Tara's latest novel for middle-grade readers, THE GREAT HIBERNATION, about a town where all of the adults fall asleep, leaving the kids in charge. Her next book for children will be DESERT GIRL, MONSOON BOY, illustrated by Archana Sreenivasan, due in May 2020.Tara currently lives full time in an RV with her family, traveling around the US and Canada. You can follow their adventures on Instagram at instagram.com/allfourstars.(author photo credit: Tiffany Crowder @ Crowded Studios)
