Sunshine State Young Readers 2016-2017
The new Sunshine State Young Reader list is out and I'm really excited to get started reading them! There are a few titles I've ready read but lots of them that I'd never heard of, so I've got a great list ahead of me! Just in time for summer vacation! The first one I read is called "All Four Stars" by Tara Dairman. It's about a girl named Gladys Gatsby who lives in a small town in NY, famous for it's landfill. Gladys doesn't really have any friends, but she does have a big passion for cooking. Her parents think this is a bad idea and encourage her to make friends, watch TV, play on the computer, but Gladys really wants to cook. She resorts to cooking when they aren't home and one day, things go rather badly. Gladys is trying to make creme brûlée and uses a blow torch she finds in the garage rather than one that's approved for culinary use and accidentally sets the curtains on fire, just as her parents walk into the house. Her pare...