![]() ![]() So how did Jake get accepted to the Music and Art Academy? He faked it.Īlongside an eclectic group of academy classmates, and with advice from his best friend, Jake tries to fit in at a school where things like garbage sculpting and writing art reviews of bird poop splatter are the norm. He can’t read music very well, and he can’t improvise. 8-12)īlack sixth-grader Jake Liston can only play one song on the piano. Earnest and sweet, with enough salty twists not to taste saccharine. Sweets fans will love the gooey sensory details. This isn’t fantasy, though it calls for a heaping cup of (enjoyable) suspension of disbelief (unflaggingly supportive grown-ups chocolate pizza for lunch adult confirmation that chocolate could potentially turn into gum and back again). There’s no murder here-nor even death, it turns out instead, there’s forgiveness, correction of dishonor and an alignment of seemingly disparate events. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip’s no spy, but his section reveals unsavory intentions on multiple levels. Daisy narrates and readers see-shockingly-that she’s a professional spy. Miles, who witnessed a drowning, adds a poignant fragility in his portion. Logan lives in the confection plant with his parents, who own it he narrates first, then the arc rewinds for the other contestants’ viewpoints. Four 12-year-olds enter a candy-making contest. Set in a candy factory as tantalizingly fragrant as Willy Wonka’s, this half-mystery, half–jigsaw-puzzle novel is a mild-mannered cousin to The Westing Game and When You Reach Me. ![]()
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