Teen Fiction Focused on Food and/or Cooking

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

• Pub date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Mexican teen
• See also: Finding Yourself through Travel
• A teen takes a sudden trip after his brother dies and finds himself working at a restaurant and loving it. 

Bang by Barry Lyga

• Pub Date: 2017
• High School Interest
• See also: Blogs/Social Media
• A teen and his friend start a YouTube channel that features cooking videos. 

A La Carte by Tanita Davis

• Pub Date: 2008
• High School interest
• Diversity: African-American characters 

The Sweet Life of Stella Madison by Lara Zeises

• Pub Date: 2009
• High School Interest
• See also: Divorce
• Stella gets a job reviewing restaurants because her parents are famous in the food world, but she's not a foodie herself. 

The Truth about Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

• Pub Date: 2015
• Middle school interest
• Gigi and her sister Didi connect over the recipes their late mother handed down to them.

What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee

• Pub Date: 2018
• High school interest
• See also: Grief, Suicide, Guilt
• Will grieves his father's death by suicide  and attempts to make his father's signature dish, cornbread, over and over again.