The Baking Life of Amelie Day (Middle-grade Novels)

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I think that The Baking Life of Amelie Day is a good book.

It is about a girl named Amelie “Mel” Day who has Cystic Fibrosis. It makes her life very hard sometimes. Not only does she have CF (Cystic Fibrosis), but she is also obsessed with baking. If she stopped baking, she might stop living. Since Amelie has CF, she needs all the extra calories from all snacks she bakes or she might become even skinnier than she already is and die. She tries to act normal because other than the fact that she has CF she has a normal-ish life. She lives with her mom, has a best friend named Jenna, and a boyfriend named Harry.

Mel has been accepted in the Best Teen Bakers contest in New York but her mom wouldn’t let her go. Mel is not in the best condition. Mel really wanted to go and even her father said that she should go but her mother said that she couldn’t go. Amelie decides to write a blog. She tells everyone about the contest. She also asks people to send in recipes that she can use. She got a few good recipes that she could use. Then, Mel got an idea that seemed good at the time, but she is going to regret later. She decided to go to New York alone! She left a note and just left with nothing but her necessities. While Amelie was taking a nap on the bus, she loses something she literally can’t live without! Then, something even worse happens while she is in New York. To find out what happens, read the book. You’d be surprised how it ends.

I think that this book is very suspenseful. It also has a good mixture of happy and sad and teaches kids about CF. Since this book has a lot of confusing medical terms and some of this stuff might seem scary to younger kids, I don’t recommend this book to kids 7 and under. However, I do recommend this book to ages 9-13.


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Author Vanessa Curtis, Jane Eccles, Illustrator
Star Count 4/5
Format Hard
Page Count 176 pages
Publisher Capstone Young Readers
Publish Date 01-Sep-2015
ISBN 9781623705060
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Issue March 2016
Category Young Adult
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