Jingwen decides to bake his way through his troubles, with the help of his annoying brother. Mourning his father and in a new country, Jingwen feels like an alien among his classmates as he struggles to learn English, which sounds more like Martian words in his mind. In fact, Jingwen’s dad had plans to open his own fancy cake shop called Pie in the Sky where together they would all bake things like chocolate raspberry tortes, Neapolitan mousse cake and apple mille-feuille. Jingwen loves cake, which makes sense given his grandparents run a cake shop back in his home country and his dad was always making cakes before his death. Jingwen, his mother and his little brother Yanghao have recently moved to Australia. Themes: immigration, grief and loss, family, siblings, brothers, friendship, school, classroom, baking, cakes, bakery.Ĭlick on title links to read more or purchase. A sophisticated, funny and emotional illustrated middle-grade debut about immigrating to Australia, being upstaged by an annoying little brother, baking cakes and overcoming loss.
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