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All of a sudden it seems like Desserts life story is being written in invisible ink! Its getting harder and harder believe that anyone in the Schneider house even remembers that she lives there. Her school picture hanging on the fridge Covered! The promise of burritos Forgotten! Her baby brother doesnt even know her name! He calls her dirt. Dessert decides that she needs a plan to get back on her familys radarand hopefully make them all feel like dirt for a change. Let there be lightbulbs! Dessert has an idea. All she has to do is win her classrooms invention contest, which should be a piece o cake. But, things get worse before they get better...so bad, Dessertwouldneed all the double fudge sundaes in the world to make her feel like herself againor maybe just a surprising new friend.
About the Author
I grew up in the farm country of upstate New York, at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains--there was lots of blackberry picking, pigs and chickens, cats and kittens, bikes, bees, homemade bread-and-butter pickles, sweet corn, and pure maple syrup. Lots of wood-stacking and lawn-mowing, too. My sisters and I (and later my brother) spent a lot of time making tiny campfires in the driveway and singing loudly in the hay barn. I still think of myself as a country girl in New York City, where I headed straight after college. Many years have passed and I'm still in love with the place--all these millions of people living together in relative peace--the sound and the stink and the beauty and the buildings--it's where I feel most myself.
Until now I've published all of my work under this pen name, my Dessert trilogy and my three picture books: Mitchell's License (Mitchell Goes Driving in pb) , Mitchell Goes Bowling, and Catch That Cookie!. But my first stand-alone middle-grade novel will be published under my own name, Holly M. McGhee, by Candlewick Press in Spring 2017.
You can find out more about my work on my web site: http://www.hollymcghee.com/, or you can follow me on tumblr, where I post stuff I find inspiring from my life as an author and as a literary agent: http://hollymcghee.tumblr.com/
