With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo - Young Adult Paperback - Ages 14+ - Coming-of-Age Novel by Carnegie Medal Winner

Details Condition: BRAND NEW Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781471409004 Publisher: Hot Key Books Age Range: 14+ Overview With the Fire on High is the acclaimed second novel by National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo, author of The Poet X. This powerful, big-hearted story follows Emoni Santiago, a talented teen mother whose gift for cooking might just be the thing that saves her. Written in vivid, lyrical prose and threaded with recipes, it's a coming-of-age novel about ambition, family and food that has captivated teen and adult readers alike since its UK release from Hot Key Books. About the Book Ever since she got pregnant, seventeen-year-old Emoni Santiago's life has revolved around making the tough calls — doing right by her young daughter and the grandmother who helped raise her, keeping her grades up, and trying not to get distracted by the charming new boy, Malachi. School, motherhood, money worries: it's a lot to carry. But in the kitchen, something shifts. Emoni has magic in her hands, an instinctive gift for flavour and improvisation that turns simple ingredients into extraordinary food, food that makes everyone around her stop and pay attention. When she's offered a place in her school's culinary arts class, taught by a chef who sees real promise in her, Emoni starts to wonder whether the impossible dream of becoming a professional chef might not be so impossible after all. Balancing single motherhood, a budding romance, senior year and a wildly uncertain future, Emoni has to decide how much of herself she's willing to risk in pursuit of what she loves. Told in immersive, sensory prose interspersed with the recipes Emoni dreams up along the way, this is a story about resilience, heritage, first love and the courage it takes to bet on yourself. Following the phenomenal success of the verse novel The Poet X, Acevedo proves equally masterful in prose, crafting a heroine whose voice is funny, flawed and utterly unforgettable. Written by National Book Award-wi