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Acevedo, Elizabeth. WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH New York : HarperTeen, 2019 IL YA ISBN 9780062662835 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Emoni Santiago is keeping it all together. She has had to learn how since becoming a mom in high school. Between raising her beloved daughter, keeping up with school, working, and dreaming about the future, it can all be a lot to handle. She gets through with the help of her abuela, her best friend Angelica, and her lifelong passion -- cooking. Emoni doesn’t know what the end of senior year will possibly bring for her, but two things happen that stir up her world: a culinary arts course with a class trip to Spain, and a new student who might make her rethink her avoidance of romance. The ingredients of Emoni’s future are in her own capable hands - what magic will she cook up next? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 "Since my earliest memory, I imagined I would be a chef one day." Emoni Santiago is a natural in the kitchen. She grew up watching cooking shows and experimenting with food at every opportunity. Growing up she cooked for her 'Buela, whom she lives with, but now she cooks for her two year old daughter, Emma, as well. While she has the instincts for cooking, she’s never been properly trained, so when the Culinary Arts: Spain Immersion elective opens up at school, it's a chance she can't resist. Not everything is how she expects it to be though. In an actual kitchen, improvisation isn't always a good thing, no matter what the results are. Plus there's a new guy in her class, Malachi, who seems to like her but doesn't know she has a daughter at home, not to mention Tyrone, Emma’s father. There is also the matter of money; paying for Emma’s childcare is enough of a burden without adding in a trip to Spain, and she can’t rely on 'Buela for everything. This blend of family, love, and finding herself is the perfect recipe for Emoni’s book. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Teenage mothers -- Fiction. Cooking -- Fiction. |
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