This book is about a girl whose dad is about to get married to an ex-supermodel, Varaminta le Bone. Lulu knows that something is wrong with Varaminta and her son Torquil who is very mean. When her dad is around Varaminta is like a perfect angel, but when he is gone she is very cruel. Lulu’s mom died and Lulu has a tin that has pictures in it to remember her. Torquil took the tin once, but when Lulu tells her dad the tin is back where it used to be. Torquil does other nonsense, too. Frenchy (nick name), Lulu’s friend, tries to help her. Her dad goes of to work for a month and leaves Lulu with Varaminta and Torquil. On Lulu’s birthday during that month Varaminta takes her to a salon. Lulu escapes and goes into a store. She talked to the man running the store for a while. She was about to leave when she accidentally knocked down some books. She then finds a book called The Apple Star that has a note from her mom in it. She looks at it and finds that it is a recipe book that helps you with your problems. Lulu looked for a recipe to help her with Varaminta and Torquil. She finds a recipe called the Truth Cookies. This recipe would make them tell the truth and would tell them what they were really up to. The only problem is that they can’t find the ingredients like ¾ cup camel’s butter. She asks Frenchy to help her and Frenchy agrees. Will they find these ingredients? What are Varaminta and Torquil really up to? There are so many questions to be answered. I think this book would be more for girls than boys. I hope you read this book!

Blogged by:Carly L.