Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Mouthwatering Reads
Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes
Ha, Robin, author.
A charming introduction to the basics of Korean cooking in graphic novel form, with 64 recipes, ing... More
Salty, Bitter, Sweet
Cuevas, Mayra, author.
A driven 17-year-old girl whose family life has fallen apart after the death of her Cuban abuela an... More
Meal
Delliquanti, Blue, author, artist.
Yarrow is a young chef determined to make her mark on the cutting edge of cookery with her insect-b... More
My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant
Dockrill, Laura, author.
Following a near-fatal asthma attack, sixteen-year-old BB, who is happy with being big, reluctantly... More
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
Chapman, Elsie, editor.
From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors--including Sandhya Menon, A... More
Stay Sweet
Vivian, Siobhan, author.
Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade... More
With the Fire on High
Acevedo, Elizabeth, author.
Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of ... More
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Namey, Laura Taylor, author.
Seventeen-year-old Lila Reyes, furious when her parents send her to the English countryside to reco... More
Where There's a Whisk
Schmitt, Sarah J., author.
Life is what you bake it. Peyton Sinclaire wants nothing more than to escape her life as a diner wa... More
A Phỏ Love Story
Le, Loan, author.
Bảo Nguye̋n would describe himself as steady and strong: his grades are average, his social stat... More
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
Kemp, Laekan Zea, author.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next t... More
Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance
Sharma, Nisha, 1985- author.
Radha is on the verge of becoming one of the greatest Kathak dancers in the world until a family be... More
The Heartbreak Bakery
Capetta, A. R., author.
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of... More
The Apple Tart of Hope
Fitzgerald, Sarah Moore, 1965- author.
Oscar Dunleavy, a teenager who used to make incredible apple tarts, has gone missing and everyone t... More
It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story
Morrill, Lauren, author.
Sixteen-year-old Beck rediscovers herself while working with a group of misfits at the local pizza ... More
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
Chim, Wai, author.
Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping o... More
Bloom
Panetta, Kevin, author.
Baked with love! Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-... More
We Can't Keep Meeting Like This
Solomon, Rachel Lynn, author.
Their families have been in business together for years: Quinn Berkowitz's parents are wedding... More
A Taste for Love
Yen, Jennifer, author.
Smart, kind, and pretty, Liza Yang dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But her mom co... More
Kisses and Croissants
Jouhanneau, Anne-Sophie, author.
Sixteen-year-old Mia travels to Paris to attend an elite ballerina program, and along the way meets... More
The Complete Cookbook for Teen Chefs
For the first time ever, America's Test Kitchen Kids is bringing their rigorous testing, kitche... More
The Music of What Happens
Konigsberg, Bill, author.
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in ... More
Delicious in Dungeon. 1
Kui, Ryoko, author, artist.
When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a ... More
Kitchen Princess. 1
Andō, Natsumi.
Najika left the rural orphanage she knows as home to attend Seika Academy in Tokyo in the hopes of f... More
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Onwuachi, Kwame, author.
In this young adult adaptation of his biography, Onwuachi tells how he was sent from the Bronx to ru... More
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Marks, Janae, author.
Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who ... More
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Kingfisher, T., author.
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't c... More
Food-Related Stories
Melian, Gaby, author.
Chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food--from growing up in Argentina to... More