Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway

Cady is living with her dad and they are both homeless.  When her mother died, he started drinking and he's never stopped.  They lost the house, most of their goods, and only have each other.  They live in his van.  But everything changes once he gets arrested.  She's been in foster homes before while he sobered up and met conditions, but this time she gets sent to her aunt that she has never met.  It's her mom's sister.  As they look each other over, neither is too sure how this is going to work out, but it's what her dad wanted...

Balzer & Bray and Edelweiss gave me the opportunity to read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published April 16th.

She finds her aunt lives in the old family home and the room she gets used to be her mother's.  She lost her mom when she was little so she hopes she might some clues left in the house about who she was and what she liked.  The first thing she has to do is adjust to living indoors!

She's fascinated to find that her aunt runs a pie store.  She sells pie in her shop and ships it to those who use their pies in their restaurants and stores.  She's not doing too badly but things are getting tight.  Cady wants to be a chef later in life and she likes working in the pie store.  She even talks her aunt into serving some more pie flavors.  

As they get further behind in paying bills, it looks like they will have to give it all up.  But Cady's not through developing a plan yet...