The Just Desserts Club

From School Library Journal Grade 3-5-During summer vacation, sixth-grader Cricket Kaufman and her friends learn to bake after she decides to find some creative ways to use up her family's extra zucchini. Making special desserts with her classmates becomes a regular activity during the school year. She and her pals create tasty morsels for a variety of occasions-cookies to raise money for a food drive, Valentine's Day goodies, and April Fool's Day treats with mystery ingredients for their teacher's birthday. Recipes are included at the end of each chapter. Dugan's appealing black-and-white illustrations of the bakers and their desserts serve to break up the text. Beginning chapter-book readers will enjoy the antics of the likable characters in these light, funny stories, though the recipes will require adult assistance.