Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald

Kate flits from crush to obsessive crush, and Georgia stays quiet to avoid letting her secrets slip, even to her best friends.

Olivia has liked Phillip Becker-Jacobs for two years, and she records everything he does and wears in her Observation Notebook. Seventh-graders Olivia, Kate, and Georgia are best friends who are struggling to find common ground as their relationship begins to change. Gr 5-8–As a blizzard bears down on New York City just in time for Valentine's Day, a storm of a different kind is brewing in the apartment building above Chen's Kitchen. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. An enjoyable, sure-to-be popular read.' – Booklist an affectionate, insightful ode to friendship. 'The trio’s romantic ups and downs tie the story together. With all the right ingredients to appeal to tween girls, this is an irresistible confection from an emerging talent. Using fortune cookies that mysteriously always seem to speak directly to the person who opens them, the three girls try to work together to bring some love to their building, while reminding each other why they’re such good friends to begin with. They’re joined by observant, careful Olivia, whose epic, single-minded crush on PBJ (real name: Phillip Becker-Jacobs) is starting to frustrate the other two. When a blizzard threatens to ruin Valentine’s Day, three seventh-grade friends make and distribute fortune cookies to their lonely neighbors-and confront the secrets they’ve been keeping from one another.Ĭonfident Kate doesn’t notice much but the latest gossip, and shy Georgia can’t say out loud what’s always on her mind.

Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald