Summer of a Thousand Pies
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Publication Year
2019
ISBN
9780062803467
Pages
375 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
After her father goes to jail, Cady Bennett, twelve, is taken from foster care to spend a summer with her estranged Aunt Michelle, trying to save her failing pie shop.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Lexile Measure
590L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; LGBTQ; Family member death; Foster care; Homelessness; Legal guardianship / Kinship care; Poverty; Single parent; Gay/Lesbian; foster child; single father; losing your father; relatives raising relative; living in poverty; impoverished parents; financial hardship; same sex relationship
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Undetermined
Awards
Cybils Awards, 2019, Nominee, Middle Grade Fiction
Rainbow List, 2020 Middle Grade Non-Fiction
Keywords
coming of age; foster care; family; hardship; business; pie; child; struggle
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Dilloway, Margaret, "Summer of a Thousand Pies" (2019). Diverse Families. 2269.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/2269