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Pish Posh

Pish Posh

by Ellen Potter
Ultra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an 11-year-old girl could want. She's fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster and bumper cars, and all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the fashionable Pish Posh restaurant, she watches the glittery movie actresses, princesses, and celebrities, and decides who is important enough to stay...and who will be kicked out to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara's tidy little world is turned upside down when she embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York to solve a 200-year-old mystery.

Crackling with humor and boundless imagination, Pish Posh offers a comical look at our culture's obsession with celebrity and the never-ending tween rush to grow up.
Ages
8, 10
Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Grade Level Equivalent
7.2
Lexile Measure
910L
Publisher
Philomel Books
Number of Pages
166
Genre
Comedy and Humor, Mystery and Suspense, Realistic Fiction

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Ellen Potter

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