Request #645 from Stacie

I have three I can’t remember the titles of. Timeline context, I was in my teens in the 80s. I read a lot of Avon Flare but looking at lists of AF titles didn’t ring any bells.

1. A girl gets drunk (accidentally?) and is at a dinner party or some sort of event. There’s melon. Persian melon. She keeps calling it “Pershing Melon.” That’s all I got. Solved: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin by Ellen Conford

2. The heroine has a thing about making chocolate pudding from scratch. 

Solved: “Chocolate Pudding” from Norma Fox Mazer’s collection Dear Bill, Remember Me?

3. The heroine’s family owns a pizza shop. At some point she comes to the rescue at a party where there is no food and she makes everyone pizza. 

Solved: Princess Amy By Melinda Pollowitz

Any ideas will be so appreciated!

8 thoughts on “Request #645 from Stacie”

  1. The last one sounds very much like a scene from “Princess Amy” by Melinda Pollowitz in which the heroine from a working-class family in Chicago goes to stay the summer with rich relatives (cousin Candace) on Mackinac island. She has to choose between rich playboy Guy and a hardworking local guy who is looked down on by the summer residents. One strange thing that stuck in my memory is that at the party where she whips up the pizza, Candace eats 3 pieces even though she’s always on a diet.

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  2. The heroine has a thing about making chocolate pudding from scratch:

    I think a story from Dear Bill, Remember Me? and Other Stories by Norma Fox Mazer.

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  3. I think you’re right! There’s a party and something falls through with the food and Amy makes pizza and saves the day. Thank you!

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  4. I think the third book I was asking about might be We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin by Ellen Condon.

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