The Stars of Summer & Stars so Sweet

Title: The Stars of Summer & Stars so Sweet

Author: Tara Dairman

Grade Level: 5&6th

The Stars of Summer: It’s summer, so Gladys can’t wait to cook all day and try so many new recipes. Unfortunately, her parents have other ideas. Charissa gave Gladys a free coupon for summer camp to Gladys for her birthday. Gladys’ parents are thrilled! Now, Gladys can make new friends. So Gladys goes to summer camp as a counselor. Thankfully, she assigned to kitchen duty. She is also assigned a new assignment from Fiona: find the best hot dog in New York City. While this might seem problematic, it allows Gladys and her parents to bond over different hot dogs and trips to New York. She also finds a kinda new boyfriend, Hamilton Herbertson, the boy who wrote Zombietown. He asks her to accompany him to the Kid’s Award Ceremony. At the Ceremony, Gladys saves Fiona from an awful embarrassment and helps Hamilton work through his feeling. After the ceremony, Glayds determines to tell her parents about the whole reviewing thing, but then Aunt Lydia comes home.

Stars so Sweet: Gladys is nervous. She is starting middle school and she needs to come clean to her parents and editor about the whole reviewing restaurants thing. Luckily her Aunt Lydia is still with them and volunteers to help her. In middle school, Gladys learns that she can help all the different clubs by helping them bake desserts to sell. In order to do this though, she needs to join all the clubs. Plus, Hamilton is being strangely quiet and Charissa and Parm are acting weird. Can Gladys be honest with her parents and Fiona while helping all her friends?

Please note, neither of these books were approved for our conservative library.