Best Teen & Young Adult Cooking & Food eBooks
Cooking for teens, like finding the perfect gift for teen boys and girls, is almost impossible. The clear instructions and striking, full-color photos will equip teen chefs to undertake their own adventures, but the reliance on butter, cream, mayonnaise, cheese, and other high-fat ingredients is a drawback for those seeking a healthy diet. Evelyn Raab's Clueless in the Kitchen (Firefly, 1998) is a far more extensive collection of recipes that also includes more basic information about equipment, shopping, and food preparation. JUDI CARLE has served as chef/author, project coordinator, and general editor on more than 20 cookbooks, including the best-selling Charlie Trotter series and, most recently, Shakespeare'¬?s Kitchen.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Christmas gift for granddaughter, age 11."
"Easy to follow directions and healthy recipes."
"Bought a few of these for my kids in college."
"Item is exactly as described."
"Great pictures and good recipes."
"good cookbook, but arrived wit a waterstains and was dirty."
"Bought for teenage Grandson who likes to cook."
"Not very healthy, recipes unimaginative and really quite bland."
With easy directions and delicious recipes, The Cookbook for Teens: The Easy Teen Cookbook is the perfect resource for teens who want to start getting creative in the kitchen.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My eleven year old grandniece was thrilled with this present - immediately started looking up things she wants to cook."
"I bought this for my 18 yr old autsitc son."
"Excellent gift for a 12 year old girl."
"Don't worry if you've never tried to cook, either, because this book gives you a step-by-step guide to making tasty recipes from cruising through a grocery store to various cooking techniques."
"This wonderful cookbook is so easy to understand - the "future chef" reading this book will have no trouble becoming a master in the kitchen."
"This great cookbook appeals to our young crowd of health interested teens, which is incredibly important due to the fact the nowadays kids are not eating right because their parents are not eating right."
"Thankfully, the book isn't patronizing at all, even as it includes introductory recipe terminology, the most basic points about kitchen safety, and steps for making grocery shopping trips less overwhelming."
"The one thing I would have liked to see was explaining how to read labels, which many adults don’t even know how to do."
Lucy Knisley loves food. Gr 6 Up-In 12 autobiographical vignettes, a comic artist recalls growing up surrounded by a love of food. Knisley shares coming-of-age experiences in tandem with recipes for some memorable dishes.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I must say I'm actually pretty jealous of her life, she traveled a lot as a kid, and even went to Europe with only a friend as a teen. The way she describes each food item will make your mouth water, never have I craved a good croissant so much! Anyway, this is not an action packed spiderman type book, this is not a batman comic, it's a thought out, elegant graphic novel about a girls life through food, suitable for reading with your preteens, as a gift for teenagers, or any adult you know that likes food and art."
"Told in chapters titled with her favorite food dishes, Lucy talks about her first delicious bites of each dish as well as some of her later life experiences. Overall, I think people interested in food will enjoy this book, but as a stand-alone biography, probably not."
"Packed with recipes and lovely drawings of kitchen life, it's bound to make foodies proud and newbies ready to roll up their sleeves and explore - or order Blue Apron."
"Knisley finds a kind of sweet depth in life that invites thoughtfulness, and the cherishing of life."
"With all that said, it IS the author/illustrator's story, so she should tell it like it is--it is just hard for teachers and parents to classify it."
"I really enjoyed Relish - Lucy Knisley's artwork is crisp and colorful as always, and her stories of travel are, as usual, wonderfully drawn."
"This won't be to everyone's taste, but it is an interesting book presented as a graphic novel."
"This book was a great disappointment."
Best Teen & Young Adult Diet & Nutrition eBooks
Jim Stoppani’s Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, Second Edition, is a comprehensive training guide and reference that provides. • definitions of key terms and concepts; • evaluations of equipment options, including TRX, BOSU, and kettlebells; • explanations of the role and importance of each muscle group; • latest nutrition information for losing fat and increasing muscle mass; • presentations of the best exercises, including body weight, for adding strength and mass; and. • descriptions and examples of many types of workouts and programs and their effects. He is also coauthor of the chapter "Nutritional Needs of Strength/Power Athletes" in the textbook Essentials of Sports Nutrition and Supplements (Humana Press, 2008). Dr. Stoppani is the creator of the popular training and nutrition programs Shortcut to Size and Shortcut to Shred, Dr. Stoppani has been the personal nutrition and health consultant for numerous celebrity clients, such as LL Cool J, Dr. Dre, Mario Lopez, and Chris Pine.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great wealth of information from Stoppani as usual."
"Really really AWESOME!"
"Dr. Stoppani goes beyond just a demonstration of exercises, but breaks down the programs into mass gain, strength gain, and weight loss."
"Assimilate this information and put it to use."
"The only reason I am giving it four stars is that the workouts are geared to a person who actually goes to a conventional gym with lots of machines."
"There's way more info in this book than I could ever ever ever absorb."
"This is an absolute must for Jym Army followers."
"He helped me understand and harmonize many of the differing views in bodybuilding, "Everything works, but nothing works all the time"."
Best Teen & Young Adult Crafts eBooks
This fun guide shows, step-by-step, how to construct powerful drones from inexpensive parts, add personalized features, and become a full-fledged pilot. DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones not only covers safety, mechanics, drone design, and assembly, but also teaches the basics of Aerospace Engineering. Ian, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree, is an MIT graduate and has been building things since he first fell in love with computer engineering.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Bought as a present for my nephew - he loved it, particularly as it explained how things worked as well."
"I admit I skipped ahead a bit straight to building the drone, but the first section was a great reference later when I was curious about why it was flying."
"For me, I was admittedly after more of the "get your hands dirty" portions of the book to get right in and start building my own drone after "outgrowing" my more "toy" drone. In conclusion, the reader can immerse themselves in as much or little of the theory needed to build their own drone, or more likely, come back to the theory later on as building and flying the drone progresses and the interest level for the theory increases. I look forward to progressing towards the start of building my first drone which is anticipated shortly, having confidence that the book will provide such a broad amount of information, but most important, knowing that the author openly is making himself availble via email to help, making this home-built drone nothing short of a success."
"The book not only tells you how to build drones but exactly what each part of the drone does."
"That way whoever you give the book to can start building immediately!"
"This book covers more than how to build and repair a quadcopter, it gives an insight into how and why things fly and stay aloft fixed wings and multi-rotors."
"This is good book and there were no issues with delivery. The book has good section on theory of flight."
"For an entry level book I would definitely recommend this book."
Best Teen & Young Adult Games & Activities eBooks
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. The YA version of Swanson's bestselling Manhunt , this account of Lincoln's assassination and the 12-day search for his killer reads like a historical thriller, no matter that the narrative jumps among its locations and characters. As President Lincoln delivers victory speeches in April 1865, an enraged John Wilkes Booth vows death: "Now, by God, I'll put him through." Every bit of dialogue is said to come from original sources, adding a chill to the already disturbing conspiracy that Swanson unfolds in detail as Booth persuades friends and sympathizers to join his plot and later, to give him shelter. In focusing on Booth, the author reveals the depth of divisions in the nation just after the war, the disorder within the government and the challenges ahead.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Chasing Lincoln’s Killer is a fast-paced thriller about pursuing Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth. Booth was planning to kidnap Lincoln months before he planned to kill the President.Readers would like Chasing Lincoln’s Killer because not only are they reading a book about history, they are reading about gore and murderous activity."
"I did not get the book back until the end of the year as it was passed from student to student, each of them enjoying the book in his own way."
"This is by far the best account of what transpired throughout the country during and after John Wilkes Booth killed our president. For example, Swanson makes this about as entertaining as Billy the Kid stories, which I find very entertaining."
"Easy read and provide great background information."
"As a U.S. History teacher, I look for books to recommend to my students."
"Chasing Lincolns Killer details the story of the plots to murder the all notable Northern officials after the Civil War."
"This is far more detailed than what you would learn in your middle school/high school history class and would be a great supplement to the time when an instructor might be teaching about Lincoln."