Pies & Prejudice

PIES & PREJUDICE

By:  Heather Vogel Frederick

FIRST SENTENCE

“Jess stares at me with disbelief.”

SUMMARY
from back cover

Just as school is starting, Emma’s family moves to England for the year, and the book club is stunned.  But even with the sudden change, the book club stays together with the help of technology, and they decide to read Pride and Prejudice, a fitting choice!  While Emma contends with Annabelle, who makes her life overseas miserable, back across the pond the other girls encounter Tristan and Simon, Annabelle’s cousins, who traded houses with the Hawthorns.  Even with their own versions of Darcy and Bingley, the book club doesn’t feel the same with Emma gone, so the girls start a pie making business to bring her for a visit.

REVIEW

High school drama!  I have been reading this series from the beginning when the girls were just starting middle school.  That was then and this is now.  The girls start high school and they are in for a whirl-wind of change. 

Emma’s family celebrates her father completing his book by moving to England for the year.  If that’s not enough, they do a crazy house-swap with a British family.  This leaves two British boys, Tristan and Simon, living in Emma’s family’s home.  The boys are dead ringers for Darcy and Bingley in Pride and Prejudice.  I love how Frederick works these new characters into the story and how they relate to the classic book the girls are reading.  Very clever!

I bet you are wondering about the pies, right?  Well, the girls really want Emma to come back for a visit, so they get creative to raise traveling money for her.  Cassidy’s mother is an expert baker, and she teaches the girls to make pies.  The whole pie making business was my favorite part of the book.  There are baking mishaps and the mothers get into a serious pie baking competition. 

Pies and Prejudice is a tasty addition to an awesome series. 

Thank you to Heather Vogel Frederick and The Teen Book Scene for providing this book for review.  Look for my review of Heather's picture book, Babyberry Pie, coming soon!

RATING

5        Plot

5        Characters

5        Attention Grabbing

5        Girlie Meter

5        Ending

25      TOTAL

5        STARS