Not All Tarts Are Apple

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I read Not all Tarts are Apple when it first became available in England, and I was enchanted by it. Rosie and her wonderfully eclectic group of grown-ups draw you into their circle and make you feel welcome. I found it in turns very touching, edge of your seat exciting and down right hilarious.
Can't wait for Mrs Granger's next work!

Rating:
Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I read Not all Tarts are Apple when it first became available in England, and I was enchanted by it. Rosie and her wonderfully eclectic group of grown-ups draw you into their circle and make you feel welcome. I found it in turns very touching, edge of your seat exciting and down right hilarious.
Can't wait for Mrs Granger's next work!

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Summary: intrigue in England
Review: Rosie is 7-years-old and living with her adopted uncle Bert and aunt Maggie with a colorful slew of neighbors -- Luigi of the large Campanini family down the street, Madame Zelda and Paulette, Sharky, etc. These characters could be termed shady except they have Rosie's best interests at heart. Especially when she learns that her mother is the woman she always referred to as "the Perfumed Lady" who sweeps in, gives her gifts, then leaves.

About the same time, a shifty character named Charlie starts hanging around the street. He too is after Cassandra (the Perfumed Lady's real name) and Rosie is the center of a plot to entrap Cassandra as well. This traces back tot eh family that hitherto Rosie never knew she had, and the fact that Cassandra has substance abuse problems that hinder Bert, Maggie et al's attenpts to keep Rosie safe.

This is an interesting little book and has a clever mystery in its plot. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: So delicious, it's nearly edible
Review: To use the words that come to mind in describing this book - beguiling, enchanting, charming - make it sound cuter than cute, sweeter than sweet. It's not. What it is is ... just wonderful. Give yourself a treat and read it. Go ahead, be beguiled!