I am Gracie Gardener is the first book in the Gracie Gardener series. This book is an introduction to Gracie and her grandmother and offers a peek into the endearing and touching relationship they have with one another. Throughout this book Gracie tries to figure out what she likes to do by testing out all of the different things that her friends like to do. Eventually she finds that the thing she enjoys most was right under her nose the whole time.

Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption.Editors Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart find that literary criticism has fo...