My chocolate year
By: Charlotte Herman ; [illustrations by LeUyen Pham].
Contributors: Pham, LeUyen, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781416933410
Subjects: Baking -- Fiction.; Contests -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; Jews -- Fiction.; Family life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.; Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1945 Chicago, as her Jewish family anxiously awaits news of relatives left behind in Europe, ten-year-old Dorrie learns new recipes in the hope of winning a baking competition at school. Includes recipes for various foods, from chocolate pudding to chocolate mandelbread.