Interest Level
Grades 4 - 7
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.1
Lexile Measure®: 910L
DRA: 44
Guided Reading: U
Genre
- Comedy and Humor
- Fables, Folk Tales and Myths
- Science Fiction and Fantasy
Theme/Subject
- Cooking
- Cleverness
- Endangered Animals and Welfare
- Courage, Bravery, Heroism
- Creativity and Imagination
- Equality, Fairness, Justice
- Wars and Military
- Honor
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About This Book
Which food should stand for "delicious" in the new dictionary? No one at the royal castle can agree, and so Gaylen, a skinny boy of twelve and the Prime Minister's Special Assistant, is sent off to poll the kingdom. Traveling from town to farmstead to town on his horse, Marrow — Gaylen finds more than he expected. It seems that the search for "delicious" had better succeed if civil war is to be avoided.Gaylen's quest leads him through a wonderland full of fascinating people, ancient dwarfs, odd woodland creatures, and more. He meets the woldweller, a wise, 900-year-old creature who lives alone at the precise center of the forest, and Canto, a minstrel who sings him an old song about a mermaid child and gives him a peculiar good-luck charm. Can he find the meaning of "delicious" and save the kingdom at the same time?
In The Search for Delicious, the award-winning author of Tuck Everlasting and other beloved books has created a magical world full of surprises and a tale brimming with excitement. Delighted readers will be reluctant to turn the last page of this imaginative, fast-paced fantasy.
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