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"From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, comes a deeply immersive, darkly comic story collection of cinematic body horror and speculative fiction. Moving from California to Newcastle, from Frontier-era America to an unexplored planet in the near future, from a pub down the road to an incel-occupied office IT department, She's Always Hungry revels in every aspect of...
5) Open throat
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"A novel narrated by a queer and hungry mountain lion living in the drought-devastated land beneath the Hollywood sign"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside -- the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people....
7) Free lunch
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"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
12) Too much noise!
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When Bear's noisy, rumbling tummy wakes up Rabbit, Rabbit sets out to find food for Bear. He works all night to feed Bear fish, nuts, and berries. The two friends finally go to sleep, but now Rabbit's snoring keeps Bear awake! Includes a quiz.
13) Hippo owns up
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When hippo misses breakfast and gets hungry at school, he eats an entire cake that was supposed to be for everyone. Includes a glossary, index, suggestions for discussion and activities, and resources for further information.
15) The book eaters
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"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
17) Hungry
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In Thalia's world there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. But when she meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that the meds are not working.
19) Hungry Jim
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Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing--so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).
20) A Peace of Bread
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A Peace of Bread: Faith, Food and the Future is a compelling and heart-felt look at how young, and not so young, faith leaders are trying to finally make a dent in this country's 49 million people (17 million of which are children) that are experiencing hunger. With faiths' enduring mandate to "feed the hungry," A Peace of Bread: Faith, Food, and the Future explores the work not only of the steadfast caregivers in soup kitchens and food pantries,...