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Author
Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2023 DMPL Reading Challenge July Bonus Category: Disability Pride Month
2023 Reading Challenge: Science Fiction or Fantasy
2023 Reading Challenge: Science Fiction or Fantasy
Description
"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
3) Mouse mess
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hungry mouse leaves a huge mess when it goes in search of a snack.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is--all the nostalgic movies set in New York she'd watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn't quite do it justice. But Bobby, Iris's best friend, isn't about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run...
5) Yoko
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one of them tries it for himself.
6) 1 big salad
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Count from 1 avocado deer to 2 radish mice and all the way up to 10 clementine kitties, which all add up to one big, delicious salad!"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Peanut Butter sets out with his soccer ball to find a friend after moving to a new town, but everyone from Hamburger to Soup seems to be too busy to play.
9) Parked
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a doting father decides to make an apple pie for his beloved daughter, an enjoyable day is had by all, including the hungry farm animals who hover nearby in the hopes of getting a slice of the pie.
11) Hungry
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Thalia's world there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. But when she meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that the meds are not working.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After being created, a latke jumps out of the frying pan, runs down the street screaming, and explains to those that it meets why it is an important part of the Hanukkah tradition.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Biggety the bat searches for a meal and watches the cuckoo, the alligator, and the sea turtle munch on their favorite foods, but none of them are what Biggety likes to eat.
16) Bear wants more
Author
Series
Bear books (Karma Wilson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When spring comes, Bear wakes up very hungry and is treated to great food by his friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and a new Intro-duction by Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue magazine and author of the bestselling book The Man Who Ate Everything.
18) A table for two
Author
Series
Firefly lake (Sheryl Lister) volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Software developer Gabriel Cunningham is overworked and nearing burnout, so when his sister asks him to temporarily move to Firefly Lake to watch over their grandmother, it seems the perfect-but temporary-solution to his problems. He can take some time off and the change in scenery is just what he needs to get his health on track. And it doesn't hurt that his next-door neighbor is both sexy and a fantastic cook. It's just unfortunate that their first...
Author
Publisher
al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Arabic
Description
Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Angelina D'Angelo suddenly finds herself facing a life without her beloved husband. One night she makes her way down to the kitchen and pours all of her grief and anger into the her passion for cooking. With more food than she can possibly eat, Angelina delivers the results of her marathon to the neighbors in her South Philly community. Retiree Basil Cupertino, who has just moved in with his sister across the street, is positively delighted with Angelina's...
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