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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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Measuring up
Fiction. Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Supper Club
Fiction. Nora, Lili, and Iris are seniors at Seaside High. Their differing schedules and mounting extracurriculars inspire the girls to form a secret club where they can hang without sacrificing their future aspirations. Enter Supper Club, the delicious solution to their problems. (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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I'm Kinda Chubby and I'm your Hero
Fiction. Honjirou is a rookie actor trying his best to land a breakout role. He fears that his weight stands in the way of his dreams. One day, he gets some unexpected fan mail full of sweets. The package came from Konnosuke, a local pastry chef. Honjirou has his first fan! Someone is supporting his work and giving him new confidence to face the stage with! (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Notes From A Young Black Chef
Nonfiction. Adapted for younger readers, an uplifting memoir by the James Beard Award-winning executive chef at Kith/Kin in Washington, D.C. includes coverage of his Bronx childhood, his training in acclaimed restaurants and the racial barriers that challenged his career.
Format: Book
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Bloom
Fiction. Dreaming of leaving his family's bakery to become a musician in the city, Ari unexpectedly falls for the easy-going young baker, Hector, who has been hired to replace him and begins to reevaluate his dreams and the consequences of his choices. (GN)
Format: Book
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Family Style
Nonfiction. Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream. (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Isabel in Bloom
Fiction. Starting a new school in San Francisco, 12-year-old Isabel, newly arrived from the Philippines, struggles to make friends until she joins the gardening and cooking clubs, where she starts to bloom.
Format: Book
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Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen
Fiction. Night falls on the Witch Hat Atelier, and Coco and her fellow apprentices take to their beds. In the quiet of midnight, Qifrey and Olruggio are finally free to pursue their culinary experiments. The magic of the kitchen comes alive as they cook puddings, stews, parfaits, and jellies, and when the sun rises, Coco and the gang are there to savor every bite! (GN)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Eli Over Easy
Fiction. Thirteen-year-old Eli Adams lives alone with his father, who has become stridently protective ever since Eli’s mother, a test kitchen chef, died of Covid months ago. Eli’s burgeoning self-expression—through both his cooking and his sweetly developing relationship with Mat...(his cute tween neighbor)—shines through in this tender, low-conflict drama. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Book
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Voyage De Gourmet
Fiction. Layne Green is a social media sensation of a cook. He's selected to compete on a reality TV show called Voyage de Gourmet - a globe-trotting foodie adventure. However, his partner is his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, someone that he really wronged with some of his posts. Can the two find forgiveness, flavor, and themselves on this journey? (GN)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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