Fri, June 19th, 2009
The Sweet Life of Stella Madison by Lara M. Zeises
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: There’s a girl licking chocolate frosting (or Nutella spread) off her finger on the cover. That’s all I need to pick up The Sweet Life of Stella Madison (Random/Delacorte, July 2009). Actually, one of our BBYA teen readers reviewed this at book club and it was her comments that spurred me to read it. [...]
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Thu, January 22nd, 2009
Dear Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: We both love food, cooking and, of course, books about food so how Dear Julia (HarperCollins/Greenwillow, 2008) flew under our radar is a mystery. Happily I got the opportunity to read this during the holiday and started pestering Cindy immediately with demands that she read this right away! (I have found this technique distracts [...]
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