All You Knead Is Love
$14.44
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2022
Summary
Sometimes you find home where you least expect it.
Twelve-year-old Alba doesn’t want to live with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona. She wants to stay with her mom, even if that means enduring her dad’s cutting comments to them both.
But in her new home, Alba forms a close relationship with her grandmother, gains a supportive father figure and new friends, and even discovers a passion and talent for baking. And through getting to know the city her mother used to call home…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250820464 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1250820464 |
| Author: | Tanya Guerrero |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 305g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 194mm |
| Audience Age: | 8 |
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Critics Review
“All You Knead is Love blended culture and cooking seamlessly into Alba’s environment. Tanya Guerrero, does a beautiful job showcasing food’s true purpose: connection, comfort, and creativity.”– Nikki Bidun, winner of Top Chef Junior and Chopped Jr.
“A heartfelt story about learning to love, trust, and thrive after trauma. This book transported me to Barcelona and made me laugh, cheer, tear up, and crave delicious bread! What a joy to get to know resilient, relatable Alba as she opens up to new experiences and becomes even more fully herself.” – Laurie Morrison, author of Up For Air and Saint Ivy
“Layered with explorations of topics such as family dynamics, abuse, and identity, Alba’s first-person narrative is one of growth, forgiveness, and acceptance…A delightful read.” – Kirkus Reviews
“A cast of unique characters, beautiful surroundings, and delicious food will have readers wishing they were part of Alba’s world.” – Booklist
Praise for How to Make Friends with the Sea:
“Guerrero touches on many topics–anxiety, fostering, friendship, family, selective mutism, and more–seamlessly weaving them all together to create a strong, moving narrative. […] A heartbreaking, heartwarming, powerful debut novel.” – Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
“A story for anyone who’s ever asked where–and what–home is.” – Jack Cheng, author of See You in the Cosmos
“How to Make Friends with the Sea is a heartwarming story about family, friendship, identity and finding courage within our own hearts. I know readers will have as much fun cheering for Pablo as I did.” – Dan Gemeinhart, author of The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
“Touching and sweet, Tanya Guerrero’s debut How to Make Friends with the Sea is a multi-layered story with heaps of heart. Readers will root for Pablo as he finds his courage, voice, and family on this journey to self-acceptance.” – Elly Swartz, author of Finding Perfect and Give and Take
“Atmospheric and moving, How to Make Friends with the Sea is an impressive debut. The friendship between Pablo and Chiqui completely captured my heart.” – Jasmine Warga, author of Other Words for Home
Tanya Guerrero
Tanya Guerrero is Filipino and Spanish by birth, but has been fortunate enough to call three countries home-the Philippines, Spain, and the United States. Currently, she lives in a shipping-container home in the suburbs of Manila with her husband, daughter, and a menagerie of rescued cats and dogs. In her free time, she grows her own food, bakes bread, and reads.
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