The Winning Ingredient

**Hardcover edition includes BONUS recipe content**\nAs the past and the present collide, one baker and one quarterback team up. The two might be the winning ingredient in a timeless recipe.\nMia DeSalvo is one tough cookie, who can throw a perfect spiral and bake perfect biscotti. But, as George Washington High's top student and ninth-grade class president, she's thrown off her game when asked to tutor boarding school drop-out and secret-weapon-on-the-football-field, Bryce Fitzgerald. Despite his to-die-for dimples, he's a total bore. Besides, her plate is already full, trying to save her family's struggling century-old Italian bakery.\nDetermined to tackle her family's business woes, Mia secretly devotes her free time to developing new recipes, with the help of her Sicilian great-great-grandmother's handwritten cookbook. She soon discovers that blending her own innovations with her Nonna Antoinette's history may be the key to the bakery's success.\nBut Mia's not the only one with a secret. As rumors swirl around Bryce's lightning-speed exit from prestigious Chadwick Academy, she's resolved to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, the star quarterback's bad attitude, mixed with her flaming temper, is a recipe for disaster.\nWhen Mia stumbles upon Bryce's beautifully written journal, it's clear his talents aren't confined to the football field, and there's much more to the hazel-eyed quarterback than she could've imagined. While the journal may hold all the answers she's looking for, the weight of its heartbreaking words may be too much for her to carry.\nWith the future of the DeSalvo Bakery and the football State Championship hanging in the balance, Mia and Bryce might just have what the other is missing.\nArmed with an antique cookbook and a football, this unlikely pair will discover the importance of embracing an enduring legacy and keeping cherished memories alive.\nThe Winning Ingredient is a lower young adult novel about unwavering friendship through loss and triumph and is the debut novel for this previously published author.

Teen & Young Adult

Swan Taylor, Kelly

Literature & Fiction

Link Press

**If you purchased a copy of The Winning Ingredient with only 236 numbered pages, you received an Advance Review Copy (ARC) in error. Please contact the author at authorklswantaylor@gmail.com for instructions on how to obtain the final version.**\n**Hardcover edition includes BONUS recipe content**\nAs the past and the present collide, one baker and one quarterback team up. The two might be the winning ingredient in a timeless recipe.\nMia DeSalvo is one tough cookie, who can throw a perfect spiral and bake perfect biscotti. But, as George Washington High’s top student and ninth-grade class president, she’s thrown off her game when asked to tutor boarding school drop-out and secret-weapon-on-the-football-field, Bryce Fitzgerald. Despite his to-die-for dimples, he’s a total bore. Besides, her plate is already full, trying to save her family’s struggling century-old Italian bakery.\nDetermined to tackle her family’s business woes, Mia secretly devotes her free time to developing new recipes, with the help of her Sicilian great-great-grandmother’s handwritten cookbook. She soon discovers that blending her own innovations with her Nonna Antoinette’s history may be the key to the bakery’s success.\nBut Mia’s not the only one with a secret. As rumors swirl around Bryce’s lightning-speed exit from prestigious Chadwick Academy, she’s resolved to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, the star quarterback’s bad attitude, mixed with her flaming temper, is a recipe for disaster.\nWhen Mia stumbles upon Bryce’s beautifully written journal, it’s clear his talents aren’t confined to the football field, and there’s much more to the hazel-eyed quarterback than she could’ve imagined. While the journal may hold all the answers she’s looking for, the weight of its heartbreaking words may be too much for her to carry.\nWith the future of the DeSalvo Bakery and the football State Championship hanging in the balance, Mia and Bryce might just have what the other is missing.\nArmed with an antique cookbook and a football, this unlikely pair will discover the importance of embracing an enduring legacy and keeping cherished memories alive.\nThe Winning Ingredient is a lower young adult novel about unwavering friendship through loss and triumph and is the debut novel for this previously published author.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

Every small-town mystery needs The Wright Detective . . .\nThe first notes to drop were eerily simple: I SEE YOU . . .\nSeventh-grader Tessa Wright is Greeneville Heights’ middle school track star and super sleuth. Following in her detective dad’s footsteps, she has a perfect record of solving the town’s most mind-bending mysteries with the help of her three best friends (Skylar, Leah, and Riley). The TSLR Detective Agency is always on the case from Tessa’s backyard treehouse, atop a majestic maple.\nDespite being fast on the track and in deductive reasoning, Tessa is completely stumped when creepy, cryptic notes from an unknown sender start dropping into her locker. Normally, cracking this type of case would be an easy task. Except only-child Tessa’s mind is preoccupied with a dreaded addition to her family: her mom’s baby bump.\nNow, Tessa needs her friends more than ever. Too bad they are more concerned with their own worries, including the upcoming spring dance. For Tessa to keep her perfect sleuthing record and her sanity, it’s vital she solve this mystery as soon as possible. This time, the answer might be WRIGHT in front of her own eyes.\nReaders who appreciate smart, sleuthy Nancy Drew mysteries, as well as the sweet friendship stories of The Baby-sitters Club, will enjoy this upper middle grade/lower young adult novel.

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