The band's name is derived from a character in the 1969 film The Italian Job. There they are! 41 stunning middle-grade books about food! Just their covers have made me hungry! I recently bought a few of these food books and am looking forward to devouring them.Steve Jones performing with Camp Freddy in 2008 History Food books always make for some scrumptious reading! Tuck into these tasty picks for some food, family drama, and middle-school dilemmas. As Jingwen and Yanghao bake elaborate cakes, they’ll have to cook up elaborate excuses to keep the cake making a secret from Mama.Ĭheck out these 41 middle-Grade books about food. The only problem is his mother has laid down one major rule: the brothers are not to use the oven while she’s at work. ![]() To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn’t speak English, and he’s often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he’s landed on Mars. (Slice of pie on the side, optional, but highly recommended.) And there’s one more issue Dad’s neglected: none of them knows how to bake.Ī perfect blend of humor, heart, and family antics, When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie is a delectable treat to be gobbled down or savored slowly. It will be the Great Peach Experiment–a summer of bonding while living out one of Mom’s dreams. The Peaches are going to spend the summer traveling the country selling pies. Then their dad makes a big announcement: one of the inventions their mom came up with before she passed away has sold, and now they’re millionaires!īut Dad has bigger plans than blowing the cash on fun stuff or investing it. Freddy wants to work on his art projects (when he isn’t stuck in summer school). Lucy wants to read all of the books on the summer reading list. Īfter a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb Peach are ready for vacation. ![]() Several headaches and close calls later, the girls at last find themselves in Chef Antonio’s kitchen with their mothers in tow-but the drama is only just beginning! It seems like the perfect opportunity to snag some quality time with their overscheduled, overstressed mothers…if they can convince them to sign up! Especially after the trio is grouped together for a big sixth-grade social studies project-can they put aside their animosity long enough to succeed? When Liza suggests they all take a cooking class with the chef from her favorite cooking show for the project, the girls are on board, but they need an adult to take the class with them. But when new girl Lillian arrives from San Francisco, suddenly three’s a crowd. Liza and Frankie have always been best friends. ![]() As if it wasn’t bad enough that Lily seems more excited to get to know her new partner than bummed about being separated, Lily and her new friend plan to use the cookbook idea for themselves-and they didn’t even ask! Worse, Ana’s partner is Dasher, the strange new girl from Alaska, and she wants to do their project on the weirdest thing imaginable: sled dog racing.Ĭan their friendships take the heat? A trio of mothers and daughters will find out when they sign up for a cooking class from a famous chef in the first book of the Saturday Cooking Club series-it’s mother-daughter bonding and so much more! Lily’s not just the perfect partner in culinary crime-she’s also the only person in the world who understands Ana’s need to wash her hands five times before picking up a spatula, and would never make fun of her for it.īut Ana and Lily’s plan for edible entrepreneurship turns into one big baking disaster when they’re assigned to different partners for their projects. Most kids would dread the start of middle school and the year-long Explorations project that comes with it, but Ana knows that her + her best friend Lily + their plan to write and sell their own cookbook is a recipe for success.
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