All Four Stars
An Amazon Best Book of the Month: July 2014<br />An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Middle Grade Summer Reading <br /><br /><b>“A scrumptious gem of a story!â€â€”Jennifer A. Nielsen, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The False Prince</i></b><br /> <br /><i>Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York’s toughest restaurant critic.</i> <i>(Just don’t tell anyone that she’s in sixth grade.)</i><br /> <br />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 crème brûlée accident (just a <i>small</i> 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.<br /> <br />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?