Concord Reads … Food For Thought
Young Adult Titles
Featured Book:
Book Discussion for Teens @ The Concord Free Public Library
Hosted by Elizabeth Stockwood, Middle School Librarian
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 @ 4pm
NON FICTION:
The Cod's Tale by Mark Kurlansky
In this concise and informative adaptation of his book for adults, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Kurlansky traces the role that the once plentiful Atlantic cod has played in the history of North America and Europe.
The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky
The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other discoveries made because of it, and tales ofsalt and the people who have been involved with it through the ages.
Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock
Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health.
FICTION:
Burger Wuss by M.T. Anderson
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
Squashed by Joan Bauer
As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
Rice Without Rain by Minfong Ho
After social rebels convince the headman of a small village in northern Thailand to resist the land rent, his seventeen-year-old daughter Jinda finds herself caught up in the student uprising in Bangkok.
The Body in the Bouillon by Katherine Hall Page
Only the best people go to Hubbard House to die". So Faith Sibley Fairchild, gourmet caterer-turned-amateur sleuth, is told as she begins to investigate some mysterious doings at a retirement community near the village of Aleford, Massachusetts, where her husband is the local minister. And die they do--in Faith's bouillon, even in her bed. Series.
Harris and Me: a Summer Remembered by Gary Paulsen
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
A Part of the Sky by Robert Newton Peck
In Vermont, the trials of Rob Peck, a 13-year-old boy who takes over the family farm when his father dies. The cow goes dry, the ox dies, there follows the worst drought in memory--one disaster after another, but he takes them like a man. By the author of A Day No Pigs Would Die.
The Hunger Scream by Ivy Ruckman
A girl who suffers from anorexia struggles to deal with the problem.
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
It Happened at Cecilia's by Erika Tamar
Ninth-grader Andy's relatively stable life with his father and his cat living above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is discovered by a restaurant critic, bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business.