The girls from Flowerpot Cabin learn that there are two things they can count on in life—friendship and cookies—in Martha Freeman’s third novel in the Secret Cookie Club series, which was called “a younger version of Ann Brashares’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ” by School Library Journal .
It’s not all sugar and spice for the girls of Flowerpot Cabin after they leave summer camp. Grace learns she isn’t good at everything when she gets volunteered to dogsit, Emma’s mom has a hard time when her beloved grandmother dies, Olivia’s brother makes a big announcement that starts a family feud, and Lucy isn’t sure how she feels when her dad pops back into her life. Meanwhile, beloved counselor Hannah continues to deal with the fallout from a summer romance.
But no matter what tough stuff comes their way, there are two things the members of the Secret Cookie Club can count friendship and cookies.
Martha Freeman was born in Southern California in 1956. It is not actually true that pterodactyls ruled the skies then, but her three children believe this.
Martha graduated from Glenoaks Elementary, Woodrow Wilson Junior High, and Glendale High School. Until Martha came along, Glendale High's most famous graduate was a fellow named Marion Michael Morrison. He later went into the film game and changed his name to John Wayne, which you might very well do, too, if you were a boy named Marion in unenlightened times. In 1978, Martha graduated from Stanford University with a degree in history. She remains Stanford's most illustrious graduate if not its most wealthy. Stink Bomb Mom
Martha's First Book.
Martha worked as a newspaper reporter, copy editor, substitute teacher, college lecturer, advertising copywriter, and freelance magazine writer before she found her true calling as a writer of children's books in 1994. Her first book was "Stink Bomb Mom," now, tragically, out of print. She has since published 14 more books for children and as you read this, she is probably working on another one. Besides writing and visiting schools to talk to students, Martha teaches occasional classes at Penn State University, volunteers as an emergency medical technician, and works for a wonderful little company called Wall Street Communications. She is a very busy person.
P.S. Send More Cookies by Martha Freeman is definitely on my list for my favorite books. The reason why I think this book is so great is because it includes summer camp. I am a huge fan of summer camp I have been going to summer camp every since I was five years old and now i'm 12 and soon to be 13. Also this book includes four peoples point of views on a situation. It reminds me of one of my favorite books Wonder. Also in this book the four secret cookie club girls all write letters to each other because they only get to see each other every summer during camp. This reminds me to always keep in touch with your friends weather its through email letter or social media. I would recommend this book to anyone who goes to any type of camp because the story shows that it's very important to keep in contact with your friends from camp.
It was really cute! Like the other ones. I loved when and how the girls worked together on trying to fix their friend/counselor’s love live. And I also loved that Olivia was trying to spend time with her brother after he quit baseball by taking funny pictures of him with a smoothie stache in the mornings. There’s a lot of fun things going on in the books. I do recommend this book for those who love fictional stories of kids who become friends who meet at camp.♥️👍
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This is my book for 2021 about; a book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover.
I enjoyed this series, it reminded me a lot of sisterhood of traveling pants only for younger age group and they add yummy recipes at the end that was shared in the book during the story. The heart are hiding on the cover💗
These books are fun. Sometimes I wish that they would tell you more in the parts of the individual characters and not leave you on a not so cliff hanger, but this book is still good.
This is really four and a half separate stories, loosely joined by the fact that the four girls and their counselor were at camp together and send each other letters and cookies. I read this more than a week ago and the details have already slipped my mind, but I remember thinking the stories weren't all that compelling except for the girl whose grandmother died and then her mother had a nervous breakdown. The other stories didn't do much for me, and it didn't help that they all ended before the denouement, so we didn't find out what happened until they sent a letter to the next girl describing how things had played out--so telling, not showing. I also felt really sorry for the girl who lost control of her neighbor's dog, because seriously, if you're too cheap to send your dog to a kennel for a weekend or hire a professional dog sitter, and you basically force/guilt a little girl who knows little about dogs, doesn't really want to do the job, and is not strong enough to control your poorly-trained large dog, you get what you pay for and she shouldn't feel at all guilty. But anyway, this wasn't a winner for me.
I picked this up with my niece in mind, but I'm not going to give it to her. There's nothing wrong with the story, but it's pure 'fluff.' Think, "soap opera for kids."
The recently written books for young readers are significantly different from the ones I read as a child, which definitely reflects the cultural changes, most of which have been driven by technology.
Too much telling as opposed to showing. It felt like all of the most important parts of the stories were related after the fact. A major decision has to be made, time to switch to another character's POV!
A story about friendship and a bit of tales among the characters. A bit boring at first, but some of the tales were quite heartening. Okay for light reading.
More POVs, more drama, more cookies. A tiny bit stereotypical and a lot of boy drama that concludes to nothing. Not really necessary sequel, but the cover was cute.
I like the plot of the story, however, I am bad at memorizing. I often forget which person is who, because the story changes the person (for example, it is about one person on some chapters and then it changes to somebody else in the book) It is confusing since my brain doesn't work that well when I get out of school [fake smile]