Donuts and other proclamations of love / Jared Reck.
While his friends prepare for college, Oscar decides his future is working with his grandfather on their food truck Hej Hej!, but when Oscar unexpectedly gets his first taste of adulthood he realizes his plans may be half-baked.
High school senior Oscar Olsson hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. He knows exactly what he wants: to run a food truck with Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, selling rullekebab and munkar. On the other hand, Mary Louise "Lou" Messinger is driven: AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league college aspirations. When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her resume-building service project: reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. As festival season is about to begin, Oscar's future is anything but certain. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524716110
- ISBN: 1524716111
- ISBN: 9781524716127
- ISBN: 152471612X
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary 2023-24 Gateway list. |
Target Audience Note: | 890L Lexile. Ages 12 & up. Alfred A. Knopf. Grades 7-9. Alfred A. Knopf. 890L Lexile Young adult. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 12 515786. |
Awards Note: | Gateway Readers Award nominee 2023-2024 |
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Subject: | Food trucks > Fiction. Grandfathers > Fiction. Cooking > Fiction. Swedish Americans > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Food festivals > Fiction. High school students > Fiction. |
Genre: | Novels. School fiction. Gateway lists. |
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Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love
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Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love
The future is anything but certain in this alternately funny and heartbreaking contemporary story about food trucks, festivals, and first loves. It's easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think- lost . He hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. But Oscar is anything but lost---he knows exactly what he wants and exactly how to get it. Oscar and Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, run a food truck together selling rullekebab and munkar, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food truck full-time. It's easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think- driven . AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league college aspirations. When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her over-ambitious, resume-building service project-reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. While Lou stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, Oscar will be faced with a mountain of uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he can't stand. With the finish line in sight, a relationship he never expected, and festival season about to begin (for good), the unthinkable happens, and Oscar's future is anything but certain.