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    One Hundred Spaghetti Strings

    By Jen Nails

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    “One Hundred Spaghetti Strings is one hundred percent satisfying. A perfectly blended concoction.” —Julie Sternberg, acclaimed author of Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie

    This brave and heartwarming middle grade novel will leave your belly rumbling and your heart full. Because when life hands you lemons, it’s time to get cooking! Perfect for fans of Sarah Weeks, Leslie Connor, and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.

    Since Steffy was little, she and her older sister, Nina, have lived with their beloved Auntie Gina. But when the girls’ dad comes home to live with them, everything changes. So Steffy does what she does best: She cooks her way through the hardest year of her life.

    Sometimes it feels like everything but the kitchen sink is being thrown at her—too many ingredients that don't quite work. And all Steffy wants is for her family to be whole again. Can her recipes help bring them back together?

    One Hundred Spaghetti Strings also includes over twenty recipes—which Steffy cooks throughout the book—so aspiring young chefs can try them out when they’re done reading!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9780062427625
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    • 2/5
      children's middlegrade Christian fiction (Steffy is in 5th grade). This is the much tamer, PG version of having an absent mom (in a care home because of a brain injury, resulting in a semi-Alzheimer's state) and an estranged dad struggling with depression/suicidal thoughts and alcoholism. Granted, these are tricky topics to cover in a middlegrade novel (compared to the grittier depictions geared towards mature teens), but it felt contrived and unrealistic. The "stay away from drugs, alcohol and teen motherhood" message was heavy-handed and that the people in the dad's AA group were treated more as whispered-about cautionary tales than as dimensional people struggling with serious problems. I think it would've been better to focus more on one person (like the dad) and help readers understand more of the depths of his problems rather than obliquely hinting at this or that--not sure if this is a deliberate attempt to gloss over the less savory parts of Steffy's life ("Don't think about the problems in your life too much, just persevere and eventually you will get adopted by your loving aunt and things will be OK!"), but I think it would be more useful to kids if it provided more of a basis for understanding and empathy.

      Steffy, her friend Lisa, and her sister Nina were pretty likeable in the ways that they supported each other but I would've hoped for a bit more diversity (Steffy's family is half Italian/half American southern; her aunt's fiancee is asian; her school is named for Civil Rights protesters), and as others have said, the plot was fairly stagnant and the death of the family friend really wasn't necessary. If you like kids' books with cooking/recipes, there are certainly better ones out there.