An aspiring young chef and her two friends struggle to maintain their friendship and survive eighth grade in this charming sequel to Discovering Pig Magic.
Fourteen-year-old Ariel is the head chef in her familyโs kitchen. Cucumber salads, fettucine carbonara, fish tacos, and peanut butter pie are just a few of the dishes she crafts when sheโs feeling frustrated by the world, and itโs turning into a frustrating year. Ariel, Nicki, and M have been inseparable friends since they were kids, but now Mโs mom has decided to move away. Itโs the girlsโ last year in middle school, and they canโt fathom being separated.
The friends concoct a plan that will keep M in the Bay Areaโsheโll move in with Ariel and her family. But before you can say โbff,โ the party is over. Everything M does gets on Arielโs nerves, and itโs not long before the girls are avoiding each other. This was supposed to be their best year ever, but some painful lessons are threatening to tear their friendship apart. Can the girls scramble to make things right before the bond crumbles?
Praise for The Crepe Makersโ Bond
โHighly entertaining and multi-layered. . . . Creative and refreshing like a good soufflรฉ, this perceptive, heartfelt narrative . . . has real meat on its bones.โ โKirkus Reviews
โJulie Crabtree blends themes of friendship and authentic emotions with the addition of some real recipes in The Crepe Makersโ Bond. This insightful and humorous depiction of the evolving friendship of three middle-school girls is a great match for ten- to thirteen-year-old readers.โ โForeword Reviews