Julia's Kitchen

by Brenda A. Ferber

Hardcover, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

J F FER

Genres

Children's Books

Fiction

Collection

Juvenile Fiction (grades 1-5)

Publication

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2006), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 160 pages

Description

When her mother and younger sister are killed in a house fire, eleven-year-old Cara struggles to find a way to deal with her emotions and to reach out to her grieving father.

Barcode

2055

Subjects

Cookery Fiction

Death Fiction

Fathers and daughters Fiction

Fires Fiction

Grief Fiction

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Jews United States Fiction

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Awards

Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2010)

Triple Crown Awards (Classic (Runner-Up/Honor Book) — 2009)

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 2007)

William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2008-2009)

Language

English

User reviews

LibraryThing member marsh2

Written nicely in a way to help young people deal with the lose of a family member.

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LibraryThing member wdbookworm

Julia's life changes forever in the matter of a morning. After staying all night with a friend Julia finds out there was a fire at her house and her mother and sister died of smoke inhalation. Julia is not sure how to cope with this loss or how to feel toward her father who made it out of the fire

alive. Why did this happen? Why did her dad leave without her mom and sister? What will happen to their family now? These are all questions Julia has, but can not get answered until her dad decides to talk about what happened that morning.

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LibraryThing member jessialana

this girl named cara was at her friends house, and while she was at her friends house her house burnt down and her mother and sister died in the fire, and her dad made it out of the fire. her mother went bake in , to get her sister.

LibraryThing member LMKatz

Julia's Kitchen is the name of Cara's mom's catering business. Cara, 11 years-old, loves to bake and she especially likes to help her mom in the kitchen. But one day there is a terrible tragedy and Cara loses her mom and sister in a fire. Not knowing how to cope or how to move forward this is a

story about loss, doubt as well as acceptance. Cara struggles to move on and questions God's role in her life along with her faith in religion. Her father has completely withdrawn and Cara wishes she had been in the fire too. But then Cara decides to continue her mom's business and realizes the best way to cope is to continue moving forward. A great story that might be too intense for young readers, but definitely a must read for anyone that has to deal with losing someone special.