A Place at the Table

By: Saadia Faruqi, Laura Shovan

Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani, Caitlin Kelly

A timely, accessible, and beautifully written story exploring themes of food, friendship, family and what it means to belong, featuring sixth graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a white, Jewish girl taking a South Asian cooking class taught by Sara’s mom.

Sixth graders Sara and Elizabeth could not be more different. Sara is at a new school that is completely unlike the small Islamic school she used to attend. Elizabeth has her own problems: her British mum has been struggling with depression.

The girls meet in an after-school South Asian cooking class, which Elizabeth takes because her mom has stopped cooking, and which Sara, who hates to cook, is forced to attend because her mother is the teacher. The girls form a shaky alliance that gradually deepens, and they make plans to create the most amazing, mouth-watering cross-cultural dish together and win a spot on a local food show.

They make good cooking partners... but can they learn to trust each other enough to become true friends?

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love it a lot five stars

Love all of the different voices

I just thought the happy parts sounded sad cause of the voices but overall the story was really nice

loved it all

loved it all it was different than any of my books. I just enjoyed it all

Everything!! It is awesome, I loved it

Nothing! There is nothing I didn’t like! At first I didn’t really like it but now I listened to it again, I loved it

We loved it. Great read. Great readers.

We loved it. My daughter and I listened to it and we really enjoyed learning about the different cultures and foods. Loved it.