Becoming America’s Food Stories

Red Penguin Books presents

Becoming America’s Food Stories

Watch the Video Trailer

Hope you are hungry. Becoming America’s Food Stories recalls the tales that have been told around my family’s dinner table. Pull up a seat. There’s always room.

Becoming America’s Stories

The Heart of Bakers and Artists is set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, 1911. The story follows nine-year-old Lily, an American-born child of Sicilian immigrants, who wants to prove she is not a little kid. To be a big kid in the crowded tenement neighborhoods, she must tackle bigotry, bullies, disasters, dotty bakers, and learn to cross the street by herself
The Dreams of Singers and Sluggers picks up where The Heart of Bakers and Artists left off. Lily has big dreams to sing out with her powerful voice, but must do EVERYTHING, since Mama fell into a deep depression, the baby is sick, and the “Black Hand” terrorizes the neighborhood, threatening her chance to sing at the New York Highlanders Fourth of July baseball game.
The Wishes of Sisters and Strangers It is the holiday season, 1911, but there is little time or room for Lily and her family to celebrate when a found family and heavy grief crowd into Lily’s cramped three-room apartment in the Little Italy neighborhood, making her wish to play the piano further out of reach.
Books by Me
Welcome page