Light and tasty, this humorous confection is seasoned with just enough teen angst to keep things interesting. The alternative-school setting will be familiar to some readers, while others will find it adds spice to the humorous tale. Molly, a deliberately sullen blue-haired outcast, and chirpy Cassie, new in school, clash first over a shared assignment in sophomore English then act out their enmity in a food fight. Forced by their progressive principal to work together in the cafeteria, the two girls take quite a while to settle their differences. Well-realized supporting characters-nerdy Clyde, the freshman lunchroom attendant/aspiring pastry chef and Edmund, the tattooed 20-something slacker whose "help" in the kitchen isn't quite what it seems-add to the fun. Bradley slips in an impassioned plea for taking food seriously and making good choices for ourselves and the planet, but he has laid the groundwork so solidly that this message emerges naturally from his characters' growth and thus is perfectly palatable. Down to earth and satisfying, like the simple recipes it celebrates. (Fiction. 12-16)
Molly Ollinger can't stand perky Cassie Birchmeyer. When they are forced to collaborate on a school project, their bickering escalates into a food fight in the Sunshine Day School cafeteria. But because Sunshine Day isn't your average high school, the girls' punishment isn't detention-it's to work in the cafeteria as*lunch ladies. Ewww.*They'll have to cook up a way to get along in order to get themselves out of the kitchen. Seasoned with hilarious original songs, slams on traditional school-lunch menus, not to mention downright tasty recipes, Hot Lunch is the best thing to hit school lunch since Tater Tots
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Hot Lunch
Molly Ollinger can't stand perky Cassie Birchmeyer. When they are forced to collaborate on a school project, their bickering escalates into a food fight in the Sunshine Day School cafeteria. But because Sunshine Day isn't your average high school, the girls' punishment isn't detention-it's to work in the cafeteria as*lunch ladies. Ewww.*They'll have to cook up a way to get along in order to get themselves out of the kitchen. Seasoned with hilarious original songs, slams on traditional school-lunch menus, not to mention downright tasty recipes, Hot Lunch is the best thing to hit school lunch since Tater Tots
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| BN ID: | 2940169239492 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 03/27/2018 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Age Range: | 10 - 13 Years |
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