Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet (12 page)

SHERRI L. SMITH
has worked in animation, film, comic books, and construction. Her first novel,
Lucy the Giant,
was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Book Sense 76 Pick, an ALA Amelia Bloomer Selection, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year. She is also the author of
Sparrow,
another New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age and an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. Sherri L. Smith lives in Los Angeles.

Published by Delacorte Press
an imprint of Random House Children's Books
a division of Random House, Inc.
New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Sherri L. Smith

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Sherri L.
Hot, sour, salty, sweet / Sherri L. Smith.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Disaster strikes when Ana Shen is about to deliver the salutatorian speech at her junior high school graduation, but an even greater crisis looms when her best friend invites a crowd to Ana's house for dinner, and Ana's multicultural grandparents must find a way to share a kitchen.

[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Family life—California—Los Angeles— Fiction. 3. Cookery—Fiction. 4. Graduation (School)—Fiction. 5. Parties—Fiction.
6. Racially mixed people—Fiction. 7. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S65932Hot 2008
[Fic)—dc22
2007015035

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