Eli Over Easy

Name: Eli Over Easy
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Phil Stamper
ISBN: 9780063118867

Author: Phil Stamper

Narrator: André Santana

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/03/2023

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Lifestyles, Children's Social Themes

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Small Town Pride, Phil Stamper, comes a heartfelt coming-of-age middle grade novel about grief, love, loss, and finding your way forward in the vein of Kate Allen’s The Line Tender and Jules Machias’s Both Can Be True. The last few months have been pretty tough for Eli. He moved to New York City and left his small town in Minnesota with his extended family and everyone he knows. He hasn’t made any new friends. And his mom died unexpectedly, shattering his whole world. He misses Mom more and more every day, but Dad refuses to talk about her, leaving Eli alone in his grief. Then Eli finds a stash of instructional cooking videos his mom made, revealing her dream of being a celebrity chef. With the help of the cute new neighbor boy, Mathias, Eli decides to follow his mother’s recipes using her videos. If he can re-create his mom's special dishes, then maybe a part of her can stay with him forever. But what happens when the videos run out?Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Phil Stamper

Phil Stamper is the bestselling author of The Gravity of Us, As Far as You’ll Take Me, Golden Boys, Small Town Pride, and other queer books for kids and teens. He currently works in author development for a major book publisher in New York City, where he lives with his husband and their dog. Visit him at philstamper.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke

Actual rating 4.5 stars. Phil Stamper writes both YA and MG, and I’m a fan of his YA books, especially Golden Boys, but I think he has a special gift for writing stories about thirteen-year-old boys. Eli Over Easy is a story about grief. Eli’s mom died a few months ago, and now he’s home alone daily i......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Eli Over Easy is a heartfelt read about grief and the ways of dealing with it. Eli's mother recently passed away after they'd moved to New York City from Minnesota. Now it's just him and his Dad who both seem to deal with her loss differently. Eli found old cooking tutorial videos his mother made an......more

Goodreads review by Nev

I LOVED THIS SO MUCH!!! I flew through Eli Over Easy so quickly, it just had such a grip on me. The story follows Eli, a thirteen year old kid a few months after his mom died. When he finds secret videos she made of her cooking different recipes he gets inspired to start learning how to cook to feel......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

This was a moving and heartfelt middle grade book about dealing with grief over the sudden loss of a parent, finding passion with food and all set during the tumultuous time of COVID in NYC. While this wasn't my favorite by Phil Stamper, I still think a lot of young readers will relate to the MC an......more

Goodreads review by Anniek

This was probably my favourite Phil Stamper book so far. I listened to the audiobook and loved it so much. This is one of the very few books I've read that actually address and deal with covid and the impact of the pandemic. Eli's mum died from covid a few months before the story starts, and he take......more