Boiling point Book

Do you like to cook? This is an awesome fiction book about a group of girls that formed a group to cook and earn money. I think this book is really good for people that like to cook, because it's all about these girls cooking, and the recipes that they make.

A young group of girls, Peichi, Shawn, Amanda, Molly, and Natasha are in New York, in cooking class. They wish they had something else to do, because cooking class is only once a week. They started cooking for people around the neighborhood for money. The problem was, that Shawn had left to North Carolina for the Summer, and Molly and Peichi were grounded for sneaking out to Chinatown. Amanda and Natasha couldn't do all the work themselves because they were getting tons of orders! The conflict was basically person vs. person because Amanda and Natasha were getting many orders and complaints, which created a mess in their kitchen, and even in their business!

The third person point of view affects the story because it gives certain information on how each character felt. There were many different emotions that these girls had. All of them were really sad because their good friend, Shawn was heading off to North Carolina to be with her family for the summer. The girls also had many different emotions when Molly and Peichi got grounded when they were caught sneaking out to Chinatown. Natasha wasn't really part of the group, but she only agreed to help Amanda cook because Amanda got Justin (the boy they like) to cook with them! Amanda also got many different emotions here because when they were in their kitchen, Justin was messing everything up, and Natasha wouldn't quit looking at him! Amanda felt very frustrated, because people wouldn't pay them, and they needed to make much more dinners, and it was impossible with Justin and Natasha! I think that Peichi changed, from her experience from Chinatown. When Molly and Peichi snuck out to Chinatown, they went into her grandparents old antique shop. They were just looking around, until they came across a grayish yellow-green gemstone called a Jade. Peichi put it in her pocket, which worried Molly because it looked like she was stealing it, and it would be really bad especially since it's from Peichi's grandparent's store. When Molly, Amanda, and Peichi were at Peichi's house, Peichi's grandma asked Peichi all kinds of questions and ended up finding out that Peichi was the one that stole the jade. After she got grounded, she changed into always telling the truth because if you lie, it has consequences after it.

If I were the author, I would have included more emotions on how these characters felt. I think there were many events in which each character should have reacted more to. An interesting thing I learned about this is that you shouldn't lie, or keep anything away from people because it can hurt someone else, and yourself. I thought the ending of the book was really good because they gave Natasha a second chance to be officially part of their business.

My rate for this book would have to be 4 out of 5 because it was a good book, but I think that they should have added more to the story. I would recommend this book to a friend who is younger, or in elementary because it was a really easy book, and not very high vocabulary. A young cook, or a person who wants to become a cook, would be a great person to enjoy this book.