![]() ![]() And even the perfect kids seem to be Chasing Normal too. That even though she and her dad aren’t a conventional family and aren’t rich and don’t go to church they are incredibly lucky to have each other and to have love. Taking The Cake by Lisa Papademetriou, 2012, Scholastic Paperbacks edition, It looks like youre offline. But as the summer progresses and Mieka learns a thing or two about herself hey, she can actually learn to enjoy herself at camp, even if it is Bible camp and she happens to be a bit chubbier than every other camper there and her family members she realizes that there’s no such thing as normal. She’s blond, beautiful, fit, friendly, popular and practically perfect. Aunt Kate stays at home with the kids where IS Mieka’s mom anyway?, Uncle Dave wears a suit to work, cousin Mark is a genius and Greta well, she’s Mieka’s age but that’s where the similarity ends. It’s all too much to handle, especially when she has to stay with her Aunt Kate’s family. She tells Mieka she’s fat, frumpy, and basically unwanted. Confectionately Yours 2: Taking the Cake - read free eBook by Lisa Papademetriou in online reader directly on the web page. Grandma Baker isn’t just brutally honest, she’s brutal. ![]() It’s tough enough that her mom left a few years ago and that her artist dad decorates the house solely with ‘treasures’ from the ‘vintage’ store read: all their furniture is made out of plastic but it’s just too much when Mieka and her dad have to leave Boston to go to spend the summer with her sick grandmother in Texas someone Mieka has never met. ![]()
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