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Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With encouragement from her supportive lunchbox, a young girl ignores a classmate's teasing and heartily enjoys bao buns, stinky tofu, and other tasty lunches prepared by her Taiwanese grandmother.
2) Alpaca lunch
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Poppy the alpaca explores Moonrise Farm with her animal friends, finding and trying new foods throughout the spring, summer, fall, and winter.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Even though Zia loves the Cantonese food her parents prepare at home, she is embarrassed to eat it at school, but when she realizes each meal has a special meaning, she begins to look forward to lunchtime. Includes a recipe for Zia's lucky yi mein.
6) Bad kitty
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her best to get A.J. and the other students to eat healthy foods.
11) Crocodile hungry
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Though crocodile is surrounded by food, he doesn't know it. He's used to food coming in packages and boxes and in handy tins. Will the hungry crocodile figure it out?"--
Author
Series
My weird school volume 18
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when Principal Klutz bans junk food.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Gigi can't wait to make her favorite meal--peanut butter toast. Yummy! But Ojiji doesn't like peanut butter. How can anyone NOT like peanut butter? Ojiji prefers Japanese foods--like natto, which is made from fermented soybeans. Will Gigi learn to love a new breakfast treat?"--
14) Eat together
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Combining geometric shapes and food, young readers see how shapes help build different kinds of foods.
17) I hate borsch!
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Ukrainian girl finds a new way to appreciate her home country's national dish after she immigrates to the United States. Includes recipe for borsch.
20) 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.
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