Title: No room for Dessert
Author: Durand, Hallie.
Publisher:Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Pub date:c2011.
Pages:177 p. :
ISBN:9781442403604
Age recommendation: grade 2nd and 3rd.
Plot Synopsis: This is the third book about a third grader named Dessert who likes sweet things.
In this story, Dessert is feeling crowded out and ignored by her parents due to the over-whelming demands of her 3 younger siblings, her 4 year old sister who is going through a phase and her wild twin brothers she calls “the beasties.” When she comes home from school she finds her own masterpiece coloring sheets covered up by her siblings’ work on the fridge! Worst of all at dinner time she gets the smallest portions! To gain back her parents affections, Dessert concocts a plan to win them back. She enters an invention contest honoring Thomas Edison at her school. She surely could gain back her parent’s attention with her “smarty” invention ideas!
What I like about it and who would enjoy it: I haven’t read the first two books and cannot speak to their quality, but book 3 in the series is episodic and the writing is clunky. I gave it a 50 page try, but the story never took hold. This may appeal to fans of Ramona, Junie B. and Clementine.