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Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes
When a blizzard threatens to ruin Valentine’s Day, three seventh-grade friends make and distribute fortune cookies to their lonely neighbors—and confront the secrets they’ve been keeping from one another.
Confident Kate doesn’t notice much but the latest gossip, and shy Georgia can’t say out loud what’s always on her mind. They’re joined by observant, careful Olivia, whose...more
Confident Kate doesn’t notice much but the latest gossip, and shy Georgia can’t say out loud what’s always on her mind. They’re joined by observant, careful Olivia, whose...more
Hardcover, 291 pages
Published
November 1st 2010
by Harry N. Abrams
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This is a really sweet middle grade and YA novel that takes place mostly over the course of a single day - a snow day. Really, what's more magical than that for a kid? Three girls - best friends - are in middle school, starting to reevaluate their relationships with each other, boys, other friends, and their families. There's tension between them and they're not quite sure what to do about it. The snow day gives them the perfect chance to spend time together, learn to make amazing fortune cookie...more
Thirteen year olds Kate, Georgia and Olivia have been best friends since the time their families moved into the same apartment in Brooklyn. But their friendship has got strained after being separated into different clusters in seventh grade. When a blizzard threatens to spoils the Valentine Day celebrations, the girls decide to distribute homemade fortune cookies throughout their apartment in an effort to unite the apartments residents like the old days and maybe even bring love and happiness in...more
What You Need to Know:
• Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes is a terrific and light tween book you can be happy about putting into your
daughter's hands.
• If you are ok with putting stories about boys and crushes into your middle reader's hands, then this is a great one to start with. Note the girls in this story don't have much interaction with boys, they mostly just talk about them.
• While the title might seem otherwise, the main theme here is friendship and girlfriends, not boys.
• This is an e...more
• Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes is a terrific and light tween book you can be happy about putting into your
daughter's hands.
• If you are ok with putting stories about boys and crushes into your middle reader's hands, then this is a great one to start with. Note the girls in this story don't have much interaction with boys, they mostly just talk about them.
• While the title might seem otherwise, the main theme here is friendship and girlfriends, not boys.
• This is an e...more
Greenwald did a decent job of capturing the drama that can evolve in long-standing friendships as girls age. Our main characters - Kate, Olivia, and Georgia - have all just turned 13 and are discovering that they have emerging personality differences that make being best friends a little trickier than in the past. A lot of the drama revolves around a difference of opinion over boys and what the "best" way to 'crush on' or 'love' boys is. Do you have different infatuations every week? Do you obse...more
This book was just so cute! It’s probably aimed at a market a little younger than I usually read, I’d buy this as a gift for girl aged 10-13 years and know they’d love it! However I still thoroughly enjoyed my journey back in time, which this book provided and the memories it evoked.
Told from the perspectives of three 13 year old friends, Olivia, Georgia and Kate, Lisa Greenwald captures perfectly the confusion and uncertainty of being on the cusp of Young adulthood, when your not quite there bu...more
Told from the perspectives of three 13 year old friends, Olivia, Georgia and Kate, Lisa Greenwald captures perfectly the confusion and uncertainty of being on the cusp of Young adulthood, when your not quite there bu...more
Not going to lie, picked this book up for the cover art. I only glanced at the description (I thought this book was about adult friends and not teenagers). This book made me really hungry for Chinese food and fortune cookies!
Lisa Greenwald perfectly captures the awkwardness, the angst, and the lack of self confidence of the teen years. I felt as if I was a teenager again which, was not a comfortable feeling.
I love the young adult genera but, I feel that most of the books are about teenagers who...more
Lisa Greenwald perfectly captures the awkwardness, the angst, and the lack of self confidence of the teen years. I felt as if I was a teenager again which, was not a comfortable feeling.
I love the young adult genera but, I feel that most of the books are about teenagers who...more
Well this would have to be one of the only books I have ever read that was only of like a two day time spand. I will say for the two days it was very detailed. The book showed that friends will always have their differeances, but in the end thats what makes us true friends. I would recomend this if you are into books about friendship, love, and finding out who you are.
The cover on this is bright, inviting, and sparkly, with imprinted glitter on both the back and front. The book follows three teen girls who live in the same apartment block, and who are best friends. From start to finish the book is very detailed about their crushes and how they react to those involved. I found this tiresome in places, probably because I'm way past the age of having crushes ;) I like the way it gave different view points on the current happenings from each character, and the ad...more
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A blizzard has hit New York City on Valentine’s Day and friends Olivia, Georgia and Kate and stuck inside their apartment building. They all live on the same floor of the building and have been friends for years. They couldn’t be more different, Kate is obsessed with gossip and boys, Georgia is quiet and reserved and Olivia spends all her time observing everyone else’s lives, particular that of Phillip Becker-Jacobs – her crush for the last two years. When Georgia’s mom teaches them to make the...more
I liked this book but I did have a few problems with it. I liked how the POV of the story shifted between the three friends. I liked seeing their side and thinking about each conflict the girls encountered. I liked Kate's point of view the best because she had a sassy take on everything and she was probably the most outgoing out of all of them.
I didn't like the fortune cookie idea. No, scratch that. I didn't like how Olivia just suddenly thought up that idea. I thought it would have been more th...more
I didn't like the fortune cookie idea. No, scratch that. I didn't like how Olivia just suddenly thought up that idea. I thought it would have been more th...more
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Olivia, Kate and Georgia have been friends for years. Growing up with the same set of friends both has advantages and disadvantages. If there was such a thing as an itch in marriage, there was such an itch in friendship too. It cannot be avoided; at least that’s what I think because generally people do not expect the change in the interaction.
The book was about friendship and the transition from being a kid to being a teen, as well as the changes that emerge in the process....more
Olivia, Kate and Georgia have been friends for years. Growing up with the same set of friends both has advantages and disadvantages. If there was such a thing as an itch in marriage, there was such an itch in friendship too. It cannot be avoided; at least that’s what I think because generally people do not expect the change in the interaction.
The book was about friendship and the transition from being a kid to being a teen, as well as the changes that emerge in the process....more
Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald:
Three 7th grade girls; Olivia, Kate, and Georgia have been best friends since they moved into the same apartment building. Lately, their friendship has been falling apart. Not only because of all the gossip and drama, but the truth behind themselves as well. When a blizzard turns Valentine's Day into an indoor event, all three girls go off on an adventure to bring their building more closer together by handing out Chen's magical fortune cookies...more
Three 7th grade girls; Olivia, Kate, and Georgia have been best friends since they moved into the same apartment building. Lately, their friendship has been falling apart. Not only because of all the gossip and drama, but the truth behind themselves as well. When a blizzard turns Valentine's Day into an indoor event, all three girls go off on an adventure to bring their building more closer together by handing out Chen's magical fortune cookies...more
I rate this book a 4 because it was funny and about loving couples that like one another but just wont date because they are to good of frineds to be dating each other. My favorite character would have to be Georgia because she is really nice and a good friend of Kate's because she is really nice to her and will help her through boy troubles and everything. But in the end they still dont date. In the end they become even better of friends and actually start conversations together because in the...more
This book was okay. I had a lot of questions while reading it. I didn't think the author took a lot of time into creating the characters. While the description and plot was cute and funny, I didn't care for it that much. I lot of the characters frustrated me because they were always worrying about little things that most likely wouldn't happen. It looked like the author tried to create a character that the stereotypical teenage girl would like. It was like she just wanted a book to sell and not...more
This book is so good! It is about three girls Georgia,Oliva, and Kate they have been best buds since they all moved in the same apartment. But lately their freindship has been strained and Kate is looking for new best friends and getting all the phone numbers she can get! She has bben so mean she ripped Olivia's notebook! Olivia's notebook was precious to her! But then Olivia suggests that they go around the apartment and sell Chen's foutune cookies ( Georgia's parents chinese restaraunt). So on...more
**spoiler alert** This book is about three best friends that are 13, kate, georgia, and olivia, who live in an apartment. Kate is outgoing, georgia is quit and her dad owns Chen's Restaurant below the apartment, and olivia is kid of obsessive and a really good observer. They live in new york. new york NEVER has snow but, on valentines day, there was a blizzard. The girls were so bummed that there was a blizzard ad they didn't go to school. They were so excited to go to school to see all the vale...more
Like My Life in Pink and Green, Lisa Greenwald delivers a cute and enjoyable read.
This time the story is told by three main characters - Olivia, Kate and Georgia. The three girls have been friends forever, but lately they haven't been getting along as well as they use too. Over the course of the day they each learn a valuable lesson about themselves and each other.
I really liked all the three characters. They are all very different, and each had their own story to tell. You can easily see why t...more
This time the story is told by three main characters - Olivia, Kate and Georgia. The three girls have been friends forever, but lately they haven't been getting along as well as they use too. Over the course of the day they each learn a valuable lesson about themselves and each other.
I really liked all the three characters. They are all very different, and each had their own story to tell. You can easily see why t...more
Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes is a sweet, light read about seventh grade girls and their important relationships--be they with boys, each other, or their mothers. The story takes place over the course of one day (Valentine's Day, appropriately) when the three girls are stuck in their building during a blizzard. They take it upon themselves to bring "friendly" back to the building's atmosphere by...(click here for full review: http://www.storysnoops.com/detail.php...)
There is a very large number of tween-age girls out there who will absolutely eat this book up, focusing as it does on three tween-age girls, all best friends, all living in the same Brooklyn apartment building, & all spending their Valentine's Day snow day thinking rather obsessively about boys & crushes, as girls of that age do. Unfortunately, I'm completely past that stage & found the girls' inability to talk about anything but the boys they like rather annoying. It's a stage, we...more
I am giving this book 3 stars because my 11 year old liked it and asked for Greenwald's other book My Life In Pink and Green And on that basis I'd recommend it for other tween girls.
If I'd been reviewing it purely as myself though, I'd have given it no more than a 2. I found the multiple voices less than believable and the plot too choppy.
If I'd been reviewing it purely as myself though, I'd have given it no more than a 2. I found the multiple voices less than believable and the plot too choppy.
A cute friendship story about three girls in 7th grade dealing with the typical woes- fights, crushes, and parents. During an unexpected snow day the girls decide to deliver fortune cookies to neighbors in their apartment building creating a sense of family as neighbors come out of their homes to meet others. The disagreements between the girls is realistically portrayed and the crushes each girl experiences are simple and clean. A great book for 5th graders and up.
It was kinda of good. I really don't know what to say. It half sucked and half was great. The only part i didnt like was the middle and the end. Sorry to have break the hearts if someone really really wanted to read it. I did too. Just to be clear, i didn't at expected it that way. Lisa's first book was great, her second one was good. Now I expect the third one half awful half great. You don't have to believe my opinion if you don't want to.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
I think It was a great book with three main characters Olivia Georgia and Kate. In the beginning it is valentines day. The girls are having a fight and they decide to hand out fortune cookies because it is a snow day. Throughout the day they meet lots of new people and have lots of drama. Both the boy drama and the friend drama but in the end they work it out and are the three best friends they always have been. I recommend Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald for any girl in 5th...more
I have no words for this amazing read. It was SO good and it made me ecstactic as soon as I turned the very last page. I connected with Olivia, Kate and Georgia, but mostly Olivia. It was definetly a read I've really never read, and it was genius! I loved this book SO SO much! I've read My Life In Pink & Green and I read it last year, but I remember LOVING IT. I'm definetly going to read her next book, Reel Life Starring Us!
This was a cute novel about how friendships transition. Told in the voices of three girls, Olivia, Georgia & Kate, the novel relates each girls' perspective on their long-standing friendships, their crushes, and their outlooks on the future. Each girl is realistic and the story plays out well. I recommend this one for middle-school girls who worry that growing up means growing apart from their friends.
This was a cute novel about how friendships transition. Told in the voices of three girls, Olivia, Georgia & Kate, the novel relates each girls' perspective on their long-standing friendships, their crushes, and their outlooks on the future. Each girl is realistic and the story plays out well. I recommend this one for middle-school girls who worry that growing up means growing apart from their friends.
Three best friends who live in the same apartment building are stuck inside on Valentine's Day during a rare snow day in NYC. They decide to deliver homemade fortune cookies to their fellow neighbors. In the process, they not only spread some joy and fun but discover why they are good friends in the first place. Fans of Lisa's first book will also enjoy this one.
I really like this book and I enjoyed how the author adds the fortunes inside of each chapter like she has done before except with beauty tips and business tips. I really enjoyed reading this book a lot. I liked how the characters overcame their challenges. I was super scared that they wouldn't be friends again when they got into a huge fight. But it all worked out in the end.
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