No Room for Dessert

by Durand, Hallie; Davenier, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781442403611
• ISBN10: 1442403616
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-24
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Summary

What will Dessert bring to her classroom's invention fair? Mischief, of course! All of a sudden it seems like Dessert's life story is being written in invisible ink! It's getting harder and harder to believe that anyone in the Schneider house even remembers that she lives there. Her school picture hanging on the fridge? Covered! The promise of burritos? Forgotten! Her baby brother doesn't even know her name! (He calls her "dirt.") Dessert decides that she needs a plan to get back on her family's radarand hopefully make them all feel like "dirt" for a change. Let there be light bulbs! Dessert has an idea. All she has to do is win her classroom's invention contest, which should be a piece o' cake. But, things get worse before they get better...soon, they are so bad, Dessert may need all the double fudge sundaes in the world to make her feel like herself againor maybe just a surprising new friend.

Author Biography

Hallie Durand’s favorite dessert is vanilla ice cream drowned in hot-fudge sauce. She grew up in a large, food-loving family much like the one in her books. But unlike Dessert, Hallie had to eat dessert after supper. When she’s not writing, she likes to visit fondue restaurants to do “research.” Hallie lives with her family in New Jersey.

Christine Davenier’s favorite dessert is profiterole au chocolat. She is the illustrator of many books for children including the Iris and Walter series by Elissa Haden Guest and The First Thing My Mama Told Me by Susan Marie Swanson, for which Christine received a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year Award. She lives in Paris.