A Spoonful of Time

Name: A Spoonful of Time
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781683693185
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By Flora Ahn

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A Spoonful of Time follows Maya and her grandmother Halmunee, whose family recipes bring Korean culture vividly to life. When a magical bite of food transports them into Halmunee's memories in Seoul, Maya embarks on a journey through time, uncovering family secrets and deepening her understanding of love, loss, and friendship.
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When You Reach Me meets Love Sugar Magic in this unforgettable middle grade novel where time travel, family recipes, and family secrets collide.

A School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Book of 2023

When You Reach Me meets Love Sugar Magic in this unforgettable middle grade novel where time travel, family recipes, and family secrets collide.

Maya's grandmother, Halmunee, may be losing her memory, but she hasn't lost her magic touch in the kitchen. Whether she serves salty miyeok-guk or sweet songpyeon, her stories about Korea come to life for Maya.

Then one day, something extraordinary happens—one delicious bite transports Maya and Halmunee into one of Halmunee's memories. Suddenly they're in Seoul, and Halmunee is young.

This is just the first of many secrets Maya will uncover—that she and her grandmother can travel through time. As Maya eats her way through the past, her questions multiply—until a shocking discovery transforms everything she thought she knew about family, friendship, loss, and time itself.

Brimming with heart and interspersed with seven family recipes that readers can make themselves, this is a story to savour by rising Korean American author Flora Ahn.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683693185

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Quirk Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 272

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Flora Ahn Penguin Books Young Adult

About the Author

Flora Ahn is an attorney by day and an author and illustrator by night. Her work includes a children's chapter book series, Pug Pals (Scholastic) and an Audible Original, The Golden Orchard. Raised in California by her Korean immigrant parents, Ahn lives in Virginia with her two pugs and practices law in DC.

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