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Author
Series
Charlie and Lola volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.
11) Letting Ana go
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.
12) Bear likes jam
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In their blended family, Mama Duck worries when Bear eats too much jam, but when the ducklings play a game with their vegetables, Bear starts to eat the strange green things on his plate.
Author
Series
Jake books (Michael Wright) volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In an effort to get Jake to eat something other than peanut butter, his parents declare it "Peanut Butter Week" and create such dishes as peanut butter soup, peanut butter pot roast, and even peanut butter dog food for their pet.
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mama Witch tries to get her daughter to eat some Halloween soup before going out to trick-or-treat, but Picky Little Witch finds many reasons to refuse. Includes a recipe for soup.
16) Dragones y tacos
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
17) Custard Surprise
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two chickens, Dinah and Rufus, find that running a diner is harder than they expected when every customer wants something that is not on the menu, until finally someone comes in for whom the Custard Surprise is just right.
19) Envy of angels
Author
Series
Sin du jour volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a heavenly delicacy is brought to the kitchen of a New York restaurant, newcomers Lena and Darren literally put their very souls on the line. Angels, demons, and the supernatural community of a New York restaurant scene are brought to light in this urban fantasy story.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As Grace and her classmates study foods from other cultures, she has the opportunity to ponder such mysteries as whether Owen 1 is really bad or not, why she feels jealous when her father helps her best friend with her hot dog report, and how Augustine Dupre, her family's French boarder, can be so wise.
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