{"id":37319,"date":"2020-06-17T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37319"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:46:29","slug":"review-of-the-doughnut-fix-by-jessie-janowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37319","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Doughnut Fix, by Jessie Janowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Doughnut Fix<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jessie Janowitz<\/p>\n

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2018. 298 pages.
\nStarred Review
\nReview written August 20, 2018, from a book sent by the publisher
\n2018 Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a>:
\n#8 Contemporary Children’s Fiction<\/p>\n

This book is a whole lot of fun to read. Doughnuts! What could be better?<\/p>\n

Tristan and his two sisters get taken on a road trip one Saturday \u2013 and then told that they\u2019re moving out of New York City to Petersville. Their parents have bought a ramshackle old house a bike ride away from the tiny center of town. His mother is going to open a restaurant.<\/p>\n

When Tristan bikes into town the morning after they move, he spots a sign that makes him hungry \u2013 \u201cYes, we do have chocolate cream doughnuts!\u201d Except the trouble is, the sign is a lie. Winnie, the lady in the general store says she quit making the doughnuts because they were so popular, it was too much bother to make them. They were so good, they were in the newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo much work. After that story, people came in here from all over, all hours of the day and night. Nearly drove me crazy. I really had no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just in case you think you don\u2019t get it, let me tell you, you do: the General Store\u2019s chocolate cream doughnuts were so good, and people liked them so much, they decided not<\/em> to make them anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tristan can\u2019t stop thinking about those doughnuts. So when they\u2019re told that they don\u2019t need to start school until after Winter Break, and his parents tell them to work on a project \u2013 Tristan chooses to bring back the doughnuts to Petersville.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all that simple. He needs to get the recipe from Winnie, and then she wants him to make a business plan. He needs to negotiate a good price on the ingredients, and they have to get a business license, not to mention making the doughnuts and filling them with chocolate cream \u2013 despite his four-year-old sister\u2019s \u201chelp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe that all sounds boring, but the quirky characters in the town combined with Tristan\u2019s unusual family and Tristan\u2019s determination to get these doughnuts made \u2013 all add up to a funny and absorbing tale.<\/p>\n

Of course, Tristan also needs to make a new friend \u2013 and he gains some insight about his former best friend. Meanwhile his gifted and talented sister Jeanine is having more trouble adjusting than he is, which comes as a surprise for him.<\/p>\n

There are recipes in the back of the book plus tips on starting a business. The flap says that this is the first book in a series \u2013 that makes me happy, because these characters are a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n

Beware, though \u2013 This book will make you hungry.<\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a book sent by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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