The Thing About Leftovers

Joan Bauer and Linda Hunt Mullaly With humor and Pesos this story reminds the reader who has the right to express their opinion, you can say what you feel, the rest of the rest Some are absolutely tasty!

Fizzy is a very nice girl in the south, I'd like to be perfect. And I won the Southern Living cuisine. Still, her parents divorced and everything in her life changed, so the perfect part is difficult. She is upset or angry, with her perfect stepmother and her mother's neat otaku, evil boyfriend are worried, she often felt like a guest of two families. She told herself to face the fact that parents are "remaining" children wishing to forget to marry. She has to leave it to herself as there is no possibility that a good Southern child shouts, worthy things, or hurt someone's feelings. Do it more. Therefore, Fizzy did his best, but it was difficult to keep quiet when her family became increasingly complex. Fortunately, her dishes in the south are welcomed and her new friends Miyoko and Zach have their own parents.

"When she struggled to find her own voice, Fizzy's first-person story became active and sharp ... The theme of divorce and junior high school drama was properly treated. With the lack of sense of Fizzy and The foundation of her success. "- School Library Magazine

"Pain offers a lot of true details about the relationship growing slowly between Fizzy and his parents, parents, and new friends, feeling her growth is real, her progress It is good, I will laugh and cry using Fizzy when she is cooking for her own new life. "- Kirkus Review

"About leftovers are interesting readings about serious topics ... Children of mixed families will be related to Fizzy's thoughts and feelings.This is a remarkable reading for both parents and children "- Boya

"With a very solid emotional insight and energetic and attractive style this stimulates junior high school readers who are trying to solve the complexity of family situation that they do not need but still need elegant treatment I will do. "- BCCB

"After the parents 'divorce, girls' confusion was drawn very accurately, when Fizzy started tiring a new relationship with a new family, Fizzy felt a tired, lonely and painful past ... Pain Its role has gained such an interesting perspective from "the person left behind." This may motivate some readers to review their own relationships. Plots and characters are easy, and the story of Fizzy should resonate with people looking for their place in the new mixed family. " - Book

"It is only the word family that makes me sick of my desire," C, According to Fingerie Russo, the protagonist of the novel about divorce and mixed family navigation written by Pain and published by Nancy Poulsen Books, a young penguin reader. When asked why she wrote "About the leftovers", this is what Pain said: I am not alone. I read that over 80% of parents who divorced are remarried within 2 years, while over 50% of marriages end in divorce. As a result, I live in homes where millions of people are mixed. Some of them are children. Some of these children feel loneliness, fear, rejection, worthlessness, love, and / or immobility. Most of them can not see it today. I wrote this book to let the children know that they are not alone; they are not cute, they are not worth it, it will be better.

Let's fly to the day after Thanksgiving. I am with a few friends, we are talking about the delight and perfection of the leftovers. My friend Riley told me that she likes to leave all the remains from turkey, stuffing, potatoes to gravy, then put it all in slow cookware with some chicken soup . Do you remember how I did not like things like slow cookers before 100 words? I changed my mind. I thought about what she said, and then I remembered all the different recipes I saw a few weeks ago. I noticed that there are some basic matters that can be boiled ... 呃, stew, and need not be accurate when making it. For example, you can put all the Thanksgiving leftovers in a slow cooker and make it stew. Ideal for crispy bread.

From all these things, I do not want to give the impression that "About leftovers" is not a book that wrote information with great neon light. I asked Fizzy to honestly talk to her when she was staying late at night sharing a secret to an intimate and most reliable friend - there was a bucket of ice cream. Fizzy did not try to alleviate or hide these difficulties, but she shared the truth with many hopes and humor.