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Joan Bauer meets Ruth Reichl in this charming middle grade foodie series.As the summer winds down and Gladys Gatsby prepares to start middle school, she is nervous about juggling schoolwork and looming deadlines from her secret job as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic. When her editor pushes for a face-to-face meeting to discuss more opportunities with the paper, Gladys knows she must finally come clean to her parents. But her perfectly planned reveal is put on hold when her parents arrive home with a surprise: her Aunt Lydia, one of the only adults who knows her secret, fresh off the plane from Paris. Gladys and Aunt Lydia try one last ruse to fool her editor at the Standard, but even with her aunt's help, Gladys just can't manage the drama of middle school and a secret life. It's time for Gladys to be true to herself and honest with her friends and family, regardless of what those around her think.



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Tara Dairman

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)



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