On Lulu's birthday Varaminta takes her to a special day at the spa, really she just thinks Lulu needs a makeover. Well Lulu runs away from the spa and catches the next bus going somewhere. She stumbles across a book store with an elderly man speaking nonsense about how books find people. But then she spots a book with letter from her dead mother saying Happy Birthday Lulu! Lulu takes the book, named The Apple Star before Varaminta finds her. Later she was disappointed to find it was just a cookbook. But after thoroughly looking through it she found it was for solving problems! One of the recipes was for making people tell the truth.That was perfect!

But, the ingredients were troubling where was one supposed to get camels butter and crow's eggs? In Egyptian hieroglyphics say an address. Once Lulu arrives at the address and gets all of the strange ingredients she is sure the plan will work. Lulu plans to serve the cookies at Torquil's school's fair tomorow. Will Lulu's plan work? You'll have to read the book to reveal the ending!