As the story progresses, Foster supports her mom to be a headliner singer instead of a backup singer and helps Miss Charleena to step out of her gloomy days and helps her get back to being an actor. Soon Miss Charleena discovers Foster’s secret and agrees to help Foster read only if Foster helps Miss Charleena learn how to cook. Foster bakes to divert her thoughts from the loss of her father and the fact that she cannot read. Foster’s passion for baking win the hearts of many people including Angry Wayne who agrees to partner up and sell her muffins along with his fine food Perseverance Wilson a gardener who is selling her church to a taco fast food chain and Miss Charleena, a dramatic, retired Hollywood actress who can cook. He wants to document a film in Culpepper but doesn’t have a camera.

Foster McPhee, 12, is an ordinary girl who doesn’t live up to standard expectations but nonetheless has a gift and a dream. She meets Macon, a short boy, who no one takes seriously. Bottom Line: In this feel-good middle grade novel, 12-year-old Foster gets to realize her dream of baking the world’s best cupcake. Foster soon realizes that she isn’t the only one in Culpepper to have a dream. Foster dreams of being Food Network’s first youth cook like her idol, Sonny Kroll. Shoving whatever they can along with Foster’s baking supplies and her muffins in their Chevy, they drive for hours until they hit the small quiet town of Culpepper, West Virginia. Full of humor, unforgettable characters, surprises, and lots and lots of heart, this is Joan Bauer at her most engaging. Until some unexpected events shake the town and its inhabitants-and put their big ambitions to the test. 12-year-old Foster McFee and her mother leave Memphis in a rush with her mother’s Elvis impersonator friend, hot on their trail. Everyone has a dream, but nobody is even close to famous in the little town of Culpepper.

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