Lake Champlain was a friend I could count on. I knew her every moodsometimes she was flat like a cookie sheet, and other times she was whipped up like meringue on a butterscotch pie. That's the way I felt, too. Ever since Eva had moved in with Mom and me last month, I was as changeable as the lake. In this middle grade novel from debut author Jennifer Gennari, twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of only one thingshe's great at making pies and she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition. But a backlash against Vermont's civil union law threatens her family's security and their business, the Stillwater Marina Shop, where June and her mom sell pies. The uproar strains June's friendship with Tina and, more importantly, her relationship with her mother, MJ. To make matters more complicated for June, EvaMJ's girlfriendmoves in to theirhome and, to top it all off with a cherry, MJ and Eva ask June to be the flower girl in their wedding.June's complex struggle is tempered by the support of her best friend Luke and Ms. Flynn, the town librarian, both of whom urge June not to give up on entering the pie competitionand, more poignantly, not to give up on her family. In the face of adversity and prejudice, June finds the courage to question, to be emotive, and to just be herself all while she stands up to her greatest fears.