Release Date: September 22 2015
Pages: 304
Age Range: Middle Grade
Received from publisher for review
The three best friens from the Saturday Cooking Club are back. Liza is turning thirteen years old soon,and is looking forward to just a small party with her two best friends Lilian and Frankie, but her grandmother Nana Silver insists on celebrating this with a big party bat mitzvah. Her father has moved from New Yorkto California in the wake of her parents' divorce, but as her 13th birthday approaches, Liza make a plan to get them back together again.
Frankie is struggling with her very messy home situation, mostly because of her three young and load little brothers, who mess up most her days.
and uses Lillian's older sister Katie as a model and starts restricting her diet and trying out for track. Lillian is interested in one of the boys in the cooking class, wants to help Liza out with her party, and still feels like the newcomer to the group, which she is. The girls and their mothers all take another cooking class from a television chef with a cute son, but Liza is concerned that her mother is flirting too much with him. The birthday party is rather painful, but Liza's friends come to the rescue. And the icing on the cake is when everything seems to fall into place at the right moment in the end!
I loved the first book in this series, so I did a little happy dance when I got the chance to read and review the second one. This second one is just as good, maybe even better than the first one. The story and three main characters are all so much fun!! Buth beside the fan there was just a lot of very realistic tween life, and it describes in just an awesome way the three very different family situations of the three best friends. Cooking is the red line in this series, and in this one especially, the three friends make learn to make different things like biscotti and other delicious treats! Maybe it would be a fun addition in a next book to add some recipe the girls have learned in cooking class. I truly recommend this second book, just as much as the previous one, they can be read as standalone ones too. Middle grade readers and older readers as well will love this!!
