Just Add Magic

Just Add Magic by Cindy Callaghan, 229 pages

Kelly and her friends, Darbie and Hannah, find a book full of recipes that seem to be magic, recipes for making someone fall in love or to cause strife.  Kelly, who is an aspiring chef, decides that it is time to do something she has talked about for years: start a cooking club.  She and her friends begin to try to some of the recipes and surprisingly, they work!  They make a cobbler designed to silence someone.  Kelly’s younger brother and her dad eat it and the next day both of them have lost their voices.  They try more recipes that also seem to work but then bad things start to happen to the girls.  They have to figure out how to fix things, fast.  This was a fun read for elementary school kids who like magical realism.