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Loved Granny Torrelli Makes Soup!! Such a cute story of a girl named Rosie who has a blind male best friend Bailey, and how they are navigating feelings of jealousy. Granny Torrelli tells stories of her past to help Rosie understand her own feelings all while they are making soup, pasta and sauce. I read this aloud with my fourth grader and we both highly recommend!

I literally liked two chapters out of this drawn out and boring book. I found the characters in Black Cake to be unlikeable (except for Bunny and Pearl), and I just wanted to get to the end. At 75% through, I couldn’t take it anymore and bumped my speed up to 2.25 on the audiobook. Not sure why this is so popular.