Pish Posh

By Ellen Potter

Book Overview

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 all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the Pish Posh restaurant, she watches the glittery movie actresses and princesses, and decides who is important enough to stay and who she will kick to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara's world is turned upside down when she discovers that a peculiar mystery is happening in the restaurant, right under her upturned nose.With the help of a whip-smart twelveyear- old jewel thief, Clara embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York to solve a 200-hundred-year-old secret.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399239952
• ISBN13: 9780399239953
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Philomel
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.7"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

"Pish Posh"

This is an exciting thriller with many things going on. It's never a boring book and always busy, and unlike most books wonderfully written from the beginning. In the main story, well it's more like three stories, different things happen with exciting adventures around every corner, from hypnotizing to thieves, from thieves to the every day restaurant chaos, this is truly the best book I've ever read. So I think overall if you like exciting thrillers (with excitement around every corner), I truly recommend that you read this book.

Pish Posh is a wonderful book

Pish Posh takes place in wonderful New York City. Clara Frankofile is eleven years old. Her mother and father own the spectacular Pish Posh restaurant known for it's famous customers. Clara is responsible for keeping nobodies out of the restaurant. She finds out some untold facts about her father. Clara seems drawn to spending time with Annabel, a theif. She wonders if she herself has become a nobody. Clara uncovers an unforgettable mystery right under her nose. I rate this book five stars. It is very descriptive and is a real page-turner. If you like mysteries you should read this book! - Julia

Spoiled is all she is

Pish Posh by Ellen Potter is a great book and definitely worth reading. 11-year-old Clara Frankofile has everything you could ever want. She's super rich, has her own apartment (it's more convenient for her parents) with a roller coaster, bumper carts, and anything else you could think of. (It's too long to list all of the things she has!) To put that in shorter words Clara is spoiled to the bone. With her parents owning the famous restaurant Pish Posh, Clara in her spare time loves spotting out celebrities that have become "Nobodies" and enjoys kicking them to the curb. Pish Posh is a great book, and if you decide to read it you will go on an amazing and mysterious journey solving clues along the way. A definite page-turner.

You have to read it! MH at North Boulevard

The book I am reviewing is Pish Posh. It is by Ellen Potter. I think this book deserves five stars because the author wrote this book with good details. This book is about an eleven year old girl named Clara Fronkofile. A problem that occurs in this story is that she tells a guy named Dr. Piff to leave the restaurant Pish Posh because he is not a somebody anymore. He says that something mysterious is happening right under her nose... I recommend this book to someone who likes mysteries. If you want to find out the ending read this book.

A great read

What a wonderful book. It is perfect for pre-teens. They fantasize about superpower to deal with their problems. Ms. Potter gives us Clara Frankofile - a social snob - as her heroine [it's all right, she turns out all right in the end]. Clara not only fantasizes about power. She actually gets to use it. Scanning people entering her parents' posh restaurant, Clara intuits who among them no longer retain their social credentials and banishes them from the restaurant. Variations on this theme, plus adventures with a young thief as a side-kick to solve a mystery will keep the reader's interest from start to finish. It is not only a satire on social pretensions, but it's pretty funny too.