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Author
Language
English
Description
Food can bring together families, communities, and cultures. It is the essence of life and yet our relationships with one another can be most fraught at the dinner table. This perpetually fascinating subject has inspired a unique collection of fiction—including flash fiction, essay, short stories, and even a "stoku" (amalgam of short story and haiku)—from a wonderfully diverse and international group of authors.
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gladys the gorilla is tired of eating nothing but bananas, until the day she smells something wonderful that lures her from the zoo in search of a new treat.
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, a town where giant food falls from the sky and is shipped off to hungry people around the world.
7) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Sylvie the pink flamingo learns her color comes from the little pink shrimp she eats, she decides to expand her choices, trying everything under the sun and, unfortunately, overdoing it.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and is trying to get the students to eat healthier foods.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Bad kitty
Author
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the super rich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
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.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Frogs are the most important ingredient in a witch's favorite treat-but they are also the hardest to get into the cauldron!" -- NoveList.
16) Picky eaters
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that koalas eat only eucalyptus? That arctic foxes dine on lemmings? Or that leatherback turtles enjoy a dish of jellyfish? Like children, animals can be very, very fussy about their food! This rhyming board book, with engaging lift-the-flaps, introduces toddlers to ten choosy creatures and their minimal diets." --Author's website.
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lively celebration of food and community from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki
Tie on your apron! Roll up your sleeves!
Pans are out, oven is hot, the kitchen's all ready!
Where do we start?
In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully chaotic kitchen, and a friendly meal shared at the...
18) Food trucks!
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Uses illustrations and short rhymes, interspersed with facts about foods, food-related holidays, and more, to introduce food trucks and they many treats they offer, from a full breakfast to a cupcake.
19) The book eaters
Author
Publisher
TOR, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery turns up the heat with this reader-favorite Fool’s Gold novella about food, finding yourself and falling in love; originally available only in the Fool’s Gold Cookbook, now available to be enjoyed as a standalone short story. Ana Raquel’s greatest passion is food: she’s a gifted chef with the experience to prove it. Armed with an Airstream trailer-turned-mobile-kitchen, she’s back in her...
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