No Room for Dessert

Hallie Durand, Christine Davenier

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• eBook ISBN:
  9781442403628
• Year: 2012

What will Dessert bring to her classroom's invention fair? Mischief, of course! All of a sudden it seems like Dessert's life story is being written in invisible ink! It's getting harder and harder to believe that anyone in the Schneider house even remembers that she lives there. Her school picture hanging on the fridge? Covered! The promise of burritos? Forgotten! Her baby brother doesn't even know her name! (He calls her "dirt.") Dessert decides that she needs a plan to get back on her family's radar—and hopefully make them all feel like "dirt" for a change.Let there be light bulbs! Dessert has an idea. All she has to do is win her classroom's invention contest, which should be a piece o' cake. But, things get worse before they get better...soon, they are so bad, Dessert may need all the double fudge sundaes in the world to make her feel like herself again—or maybe just a surprising new friend.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Chapter One: Not Quite Enough
• Chapter Two: Foster Brooks
• Chapter Three: A Silver Notebook
• Chapter Four: The Fridge
• Chapter Five: A Prodigious Note Taker
• Chapter Six: A Convertible Lap Seat
• Chapter Seven: Muckers
• Chapter Eight: A Keeper
• Chapter Nine: In which Foster Speaks
• Chapter Ten: My Question Partner
• Chapter Eleven: In which Daddy Forgets Her
• Chapter Twelve: The Vending Dresser
• Chapter Thirteen: No Competition
• Chapter Fourteen: Candlesticks
• Chapter Fifteen: Reason to Believe
• Chapter Sixteen: Let there be Lightbulbs
• Chapter Seventeen: My Sad Talents
• Chapter Eighteen: An Orphan
• Chapter Nineteen: Foster’s House
• Chapter Twenty: As Soft as Whipped Cream
• Chapter Twenty-One: A Deuce
• Acknowledgments
• Recipes
• About the Authors