360 pages
Nan was all the family Mo ever needed. But suddenly she's gone, and Mo finds herself in foster care after her uncle decides she's not worth sticking around for. Nan left her a notebook and advised her to get a hobby, like ferret racing or palm reading. But how could a hobby fix anything in her newly topsy-turvy life? Then Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes. Even though Nan never cooked, Mo can't tear her eyes away. Not so much from the recipes, but the stories attached to them. Though, when she makes herself a pot of soup, it is every bit as comforting as the recipe notes said. Soon Mo finds herself asking everyone she meets for their family recipes. Teaching herself to make them. Collecting the stories behind them. Building a website to share them. And, okay, secretly hoping that a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own. But when everything starts to unravel again, Mo realizes that if she wants a family recipe -- or a real family -- she's going to have to make it up herself.
A Mark Twain Nominee for grades 4-6. This was a sad book with a very happy ending. Sad because a young girl who has lived with her Grandma since her mother passed away, is now an orphan and no one wants her, even the Foster family that says they will adopt her. But in the end she finds a family and also finds out that she doesn't need someone else to make her feel special. She learns a new hobby and makes new friends along the way.
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