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Gr 5–8—Sixth-grader Foster McFee is a supremely talented baker and dreams of being a famous television chef like Sonny Kroll, star of her favorite show on the Food Network, but she has already had to face some major challenges in her life. After her father's death in combat in Iraq, she and her mother, a talented singer, have had a hard time financially, and ultimately they are forced to leave Memphis in order to escape her mother's abusive Elvis-...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

On the run from her mother's ex-boyfriend, an Elvis impersonator named Huck driving a yellow Cadillac honking out "Jailhouse Rock," twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother flee Memphis late one night, and here they are in Culpepper, West Virginia, living in a borrowed Airstream trailer. All they have going for themselves are Mama's singing voice and Foster's dream of becoming the "first kid cook on the Food Network." Foster intends to save the world one cupcake at a time, but it's ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

On the run from Mom's ex-boyfriend, twelve-year-old cupcake-baker Foster McFee and her mother wind up in Culpepper, West Virginia. There, an od...Log In or Sign Up to Read More