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Tea Cakes for Tosh


By Kelly Starling Lyons

Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group 2012

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This touching story about Tosh, his grandma, and her recipe for tea cakes, reflects how food can connect people to each other and to the past.

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Caldecott Medal

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Coretta Scott King Award

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Outstanding examples of text, illustration, fiction and nonfiction (four awards annually).

Newbery Medal

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Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award

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