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(3) 4-6 Saturday Cooking Club series. Best friends Frankie and Liza partner with new girl Lillian for their immigration project. For hands-on research--and with their hesitant moms in tow--the seventh-grade Brooklynites enroll in a cooking class. With several kitchen mishaps and rotating narration of the girls' perspectives, the authors skillfully use the cooking class to highlight the benefits of diversity--socially and in cuisine.

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