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Baking show romances, food-based manga, your favorite cookbook: if it focuses on food, this is your category! Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW Teen Book Bingo 2024 category: nom nom nom. Teen Book Bingo is our teen summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Batter Royale
Fiction. High-school seniors Rose and Fred score the opportunity of a lifetime when a food critic offers Rose a spot on a baking competition show, Batter Royale. (Booklist) (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Cooking With Monsters
Fiction. Hana Ozawa is the newest face at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat, a school that will teach her how to fight monsters AND how to turn them into delicious meals. (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Complete Cookbook for Teen Chefs
Nonfiction. A well-designed, visually appealing instructional cookbook from America's Test Kitchen for teens, geared toward beginner and experienced cooks. (School Library Journal)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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The Heartbreak Bakery
Fiction. Syd, a baker at the Proud Muffin, is perplexed after couples who eat Syd's brownies immediately split up, but when the owners of the bakery eat the brownies, Syd is afraid the bakery may close and it is only Harley, a delivery person, who convinces Syd that baking can actually fix things.
Format: Book
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Basil and Oregano
Fiction. Basil Eyres and Arabella Oregano are both students of cooking with magic at Porta Bella Magiculinary Academy, and although the two are instantly smitten with each other, Arabella has a secret with the potential to throw Basil's future aspirations into jeopardy. (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Salt and Sugar
Fiction. To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process.
Format: Book
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Start Here
Nonfiction. A practical, information-packed, and transformative guide to becoming a better cook and conquering the kitchen, this is a must-have masterclass in leveling up your cooking.
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Ander & Santi Were Here
Fiction. Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taqueria and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
Format: Book
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Turtle Bread
Fiction. When Yan stumbles upon Baking Club her social anxiety tries to keep her away, but the bakers encourage her to come out of her shell, especially the caring and supportive Bea, and soon Yan discovers her new friends may need her too. (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Fiction. Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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