
Summer of a Thousand Pies
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 12, 2020
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- Who it’s for
- A warm story of friendship, family, and finding a foothold—with pie close at hand.
- Themes
- Friendship, Family, Finding a sense of belonging
- Genres
- Cooking & Food, Friendship, Homelessness & Poverty
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A heartfelt contemporary middle grade novel about a girl who must try to save her aunt’s failing pie shop, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish, Fish in a Tree—and The Great British Baking Show. When Cady Bennett is sent to live with the aunt she didn’t even know she had in the quaint mountain town of Julian, she isn’t sure what to expect. Cady isn’t used to stability, after growing up homeless in San Diego with her dad.
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Now she’s staying in her mother’s old room, exploring the countryside filled with apple orchards and pie shops, making friends, and working in Aunt Shell’s own pie shop—and soon, Cady starts to feel like she belongs. Then she finds out that Aunt Shell’s shop is failing. Saving the business and protecting the first place she’s ever really felt safe will take everything she's learned and the help of all her new friends. But are there some things even the perfect pie just can’t fix? Summer of a Thousand Pies is a sweet and satisfying treat of a novel full of friendship, family, and, of course, pie.
A Place to Belong
A warm story of friendship, family, and finding a foothold—with pie close at hand.
Come here for
- A tender take on belonging and family ties
- The comfort of pie shops, orchards, and new friendships
Expect
- A heartfelt contemporary middle grade read
- Hope and humor alongside the effort to save a family business
Where it sits
| Cooking & Food | 57% |
|---|---|
| Homelessness & Poverty | 45% |
| Friendship | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art & Architecture
- Parent-Child Stories
- Alternative Family Stories
- Growing Up
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- Friendship
- Homelessness & Poverty
- Immigration & Moving
- Cooking & Food
- Authors
- Margaret Dilloway
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 12, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Friendship · Family · Finding a sense of belonging
- Reading lane
- Art & Architecture