![]() Notice how that rhymes with Newbery Award winner? Weeks has a lot of fun with her brief description of how the Blueberry Award is announced. The pie recipes shared at the beginning of each chapter will have you drooling and determined to see if you could maybe be the next Blueberry Award winner. It has the tang of a mystery combined with the sweetness of pie. Weeks has written a book as light as meringue but that has plenty of depth as well. With her new friend, Charlie, Alice is determined to solve the mystery. She knows there is someone out there trying to get their hands on the recipe. As the days pass, strange things start happening, but only Alice seems to notice. ![]() ![]() No one is really sure how someone can leave a recipe to a cat. Her Aunt Polly left the recipe for her award-winning pie crust to Lardo, her ornery cat, and she left Lardo to Alice. But for Alice it is much worse, she has lost one of her dearest friends as well as the shop where she spent much of her time. Every resident had a favorite and with her death, they knew they would never taste them again. Polly, the Pie Queen, left behind quite a void, one that had been filled by her pie shop and her incredible gift for baking pies. ![]() ![]() When Alice’s Aunt Polly dies, the entire community of Ipswitch feels the loss. ![]()
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