{"id":277403,"date":"2025-06-06T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/review-of-violet-and-the-pie-of-life-by-debra-green-sonderbooks\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:33:06","slug":"review-of-violet-and-the-pie-of-life-by-debra-green-sonderbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=277403","title":{"rendered":"Review of Violet and the Pie of Life, by Debra Green \u2013 Sonderbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/violet_and_the_pie_of_life_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/violet_and_the_pie_of_life_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45287\"\/><\/a><em>Violet and the Pie of Life<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Debra Green<\/p>\n<p>Holiday House, 2021.  279 pages.<br \/>Review written December 13, 2023, from a library book.<br \/>Starred review<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathicalbooks.org\/\">2024 Mathical Honor Book, Ages 11-13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Violet\u2019s best friend Mackenzie wants to try out for their middle school\u2019s production of <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, Violet only joins in because it would be fun to go to rehearsals with Mackenzie.  Never mind that Ally, the popular girl Mackenzie says is terrible, does a wonderful audition for Dorothy.<\/p>\n<p>But when Violet gets the part of the Cowardly Lion, and Mackenzie gets the part of a flying monkey, Violet has to decide if she\u2019ll stick with it when her friend quits.  And would it be disloyal to be friends with Ally, who really doesn\u2019t seem so bad?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, while Violet\u2019s navigating all this friendship stuff, her parents fight and her Dad moves out.  And doesn\u2019t answer her emails.  Maybe now she has a part in the play, she can get both her parents to come and remember how much they love each other.<\/p>\n<p>Through all of this, Violet looks to math as something she can count on.  The pages of this book are filled with charts she makes, laying out the problems of her life like math problems \u2014 from a chart of the intensity of her parents\u2019 fights to flow charts of her plans to email her Dad.  I especially liked when her affinity for math helped her quickly understand how much commission her realtor Mom would make after selling a home in Laguna Beach.<\/p>\n<p>This kids\u2019 novel is no math text book, but it\u2019s math-friendly, featuring a middle school kid with relatable problems who thinks in mathematical ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holidayhouse.com\/\">HolidayHouse.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/082345133X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/violet_and_the_pie_of_life.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/violet_and_the_pie_of_life.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violet and the Pie of Life by Debra Green Holiday House, 2021. 279 pages.Review written December 13, 2023, from a library book.Starred review2024 Mathical Honor Book, Ages 11-13 When Violet\u2019s best friend Mackenzie wants to try out for their middle school\u2019s production of The Wizard of Oz, Violet only joins in because it would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105251,100839,105258,105252],"tags":[5664,496,3333,8121,3749,105255,36751],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-277403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary","category-mathematical","category-starred-review","tag-debra","tag-green","tag-life","tag-pie","tag-review","tag-sonderbooks","tag-violet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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