Everything on a Waffle (Newbery Honor Book)

Everything on a Waffle (Newbery Honor Book)

By Polly Horvath

7 ratings 16 reviews 20 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 10 - 8V5.832159
By the author of The Trolls, a National Book Award Finalist.

My name is Primrose Squarp. I am eleven years old. I have hair the color of carrots in apricot glaze (recipe to follow), skin fair and clear where it isn't freckled, and eyes like summer storms.

Readers will know right from the start that the narrator of Everything on a Waffle is going to tell her story straight and pull no punches. Primrose's parents have been lost at sea, but she believes without an iota of doubt that they are still alive, somewhere. She moves in with her Uncle Jack, but feels generally friendless. Her only real refuge is a local restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, where the owner, Miss Bowzer, serves everything on waffles -- except advice and good sense, which come free of charge and are always reliable.

Food in general plays an important role in Primrose's journey toward peace and understanding (a recipe dictated in her unmistakable voice is appended to each chapter), and readers will eagerly cheer her on through this funny, bittersweet novel.
Everything on a Waffle is a 2001 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry and a 2002 Newbery Honor Book.

Publisher: Square Fish
Published on 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 176

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Primrose Squarp knows for a fact that her parents are still alive. Everybody, including her guidance counselor Ms. Honeycut and her new guardian, Uncle Jack, disagree. Primrose's parents disappeared one stormy night. First, her dad's fishing boat got swept out to sea, and her mom went looking for him on the Squarp family's little boat. Now, the town has asked her uncle Jack to take care of her. That summer, Primrose has tons of adventures, including getting her foot run over by a truck, being in a fire, and losing her finger. And while she's doing all that, Primrose learns new recipes for her recipe book! But will her parents ever return? I recommend this book if you like short, funny books.

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i was going to read it for school. i voted it. but we got invisible boy instead

You will want to read this over and over again. It has the perfect amount of humor. You'll love it. ❤️

I loved this book! Primrose is the main charicter she has a little bit of a hard life. Her parents went to the middle of the ocean so that is another reason why I like this book! my favorite part in the book is when she loses her toe!!!!

i thought the girl girl in this book did not give up on her parents even though other people gave up on them.

i have this book and you know what would be awesome, if more people follow me lol

This book I read in like third grade and it was pretty good, I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and fun.

This book is pretty good.

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