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Author: Tara Dairman
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Released: 27 May, 2015
ISBN: 9780142426364

All Four Stars

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Synopsis

Wanted: One Anonymous Restaurant CriticGladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven. Now she's eleven, and after a crème brûlée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated, but soon finds a way to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys must cook her way into the heart of her archenemy and sneak into New York City – all while keeping her identity a secret!'A preteen restaurant critic is born. [An] entertaining story about the joy of following one's bliss.' Kirkus Reviews

About the author

Tara Dairman

Tara Dairman is a novelist, playwright and survivor of the world's longest honeymoon (2 years, 74 countries!). Thanks to her travels, parts of her first middle-grade novel, All Four Stars, were written in a mall in Brazil, a guesthouse in Morocco, and coffeehouses in Argentina, Cameroon, Gabon, and Tanzania. Revisions took place in the slightly less exotic locale of her parents’ basement in New York.Tara’s plays have been produced professionally in New York and Dublin, Ireland, as well as at various universities, and have been shortlisted for prizes such as the Heideman Award (Actors Theater of Louisville), the Jerome Fellowship (The Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis), and the Princess Grace Award.With the traveling bug appeased (for now), Tara has finally settled down in Colorado, where she lives with her husband and their trusty waffle iron.