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.