With the Fire on High

With the Fire on High

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain — and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life — and all the rules everyone expects her to play by — once Emoni starts cooking, her only real choice is to let her talent break free.

Title : With the Fire on High
Edition Language : English
ISBN : 9780062662859
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    With the Fire on High Reviews

  • chai ?

    With the Fire on High was soft, enfolding, light as a dusting of snow upon my forehead, the kind of novel that deadens the harshness of the world and takes the sting from any barb. No wonder, then, th...

  • Hailey (Hailey in Bookland)

    *ARC provided in exchange for an honest review by Harper Collins Frenzy. Thank you!*This was such a great read. So rich and vibrant, I felt like I could smell and taste each dish that Emoni made. She ...

  • Chelsea (chelseadolling reads)

    My favorite book of the month so far. This was SO GOOD and Elizabeth Acevedo has definitely become an auto-buy author for me. Also side-note: I feel SO ATTACKED that all the food mentioned in this boo...

  • Nilufer Ozmekik

    Five distinguished, magical, tasty, heartwarming, poignant and definitely exquisite firing stars! Since I’ve read Laura Esquivel’s “ Like water for chocolate “, I started to enjoy reading book...

  • Lala BooksandLala

    Flawless...

  • Chloe

    I loved this so much! And I highly recommend the audiobook (it's narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo herself) <3...

  • emma

    I have an elaborate, multistep, book-reviewing-based plan for world domination.If you are familiar with my reviews, you know this.If you are new here, hello. Also, I plan to rule the world.Now that we...

  • Elle (ellexamines)

    Here’s the thing: these teachers forget that I have to make hard decisions every day. With the Fire on High is all over the place on purpose — we get brief chapters that are simply glim...

  • Melanie

    💛 Please check out Johely's amazing, ownvoices review! “And so at the age of four, I learned someone could cry from a happy memory.” With the Fire on High is an ownvoices story, foll...

  • Warda

    “The whole of me is Black. The whole of me is whole.” Elizabeth Acevedo really knows how to write an escapist story. I loved that this book was about a teen mother and how the story took a diff...