Pish Posh
By Ellen Potter
Published April 2006
Philomel Books, 240 pages

Ultra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an eleven-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, princes, and rock stars and decides who is important enough to stay... and who will be kicked to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara's tidy little world is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that a most peculiar mystery is happening in the restaurant, right under her nose. With the help of a whip-smart twelve-year-old jewel thief, Clara embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York—and back through time—to solve a two-hundred year old secret.

Review for Pish Posh

"This zany mixture of reality and fantasy offers many interesting characters for readers to ponder... Recommend this to sophisticated middle-graders, especially those who know the author's Olivia Kidney books."
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