The Best Book About Food You've Ever Read

I just finished reading a book by a 10-year-old author. “Food Fight: The Best Book About Food You’ve Ever Read.” It brought back some memories of me at ten. That’s when I knew I wanted to be an author and write books of my own.

I had just finished Eth Clifford’s “Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library.” Kids nowadays don’t know books like this because it seems like nowadays the libraries discard anything older than 15 years. They’re missing a treasure trove of awesome novels, by the way. I mean, how many times do you get to read about a kid being locked in the library overnight in a snowstorm? In any case, I got the bright idea to write a book about my friends and me being locked in the church overnight. Looking back, it had so many plotholes, it’s no wonder it didn’t make it past chapter 2.

Isla Faith Mizer, author of “Food Fight,” actually made it to the end of her book, which impresses me greatly. I wish someone had taken the time to mentor me to write a whole book back then. It took me until age 16 to finish writing a book—and it wasn’t the one about being locked in the church. That one went into the black hole of books unfinished. Mine was about neighborhood kids going to war against bullies with an arsenal of mudballs and water balloons…oh, and rotten food!

Maybe that’s why a book about food fighting each other resonated with me. It’s encouraging to see a ten-year-old accomplish what I wanted to at age ten—finishing the book and then publishing it. Congratulations!