This was a cute and unique book with a good message encouraging weirdness and being different. I loved the message about being yourself. Great friendships in this book. I would totally be friends with the LOPE group. I feel like certain elementary students will enjoy this and am likely to purchase for my library.

I wish this book had been around when I was a kid. It would have saved me a lot of grief. There are so many different topics to explore in this book, it would make a wonderful book to teach in a middle grade class. There's something for everyone in it.

Thanks Netgalley.
This one is just not for me. It was a bit jumbled at the start for my taste. I know some 3rd grade boys who will love it and I will recommend, but it's not one I am excited about.

Lucianovic does a great job of engaging a common issue for parents and their children deemed "picky eaters." In an era where home-ec classes are unheard of, this is a great introduction for middle grade readers, perhaps even a future gourmand about people such as Julia Child, while engaging them with a funny book where the reader can laugh about their eating habits and see what they value in a friendship as Minerva does when she is assigned to a remedial food class and her two best friends are assigned to "gifted and gourmet" class.

***Thank you NetGalley for providing me with access to this e-preview. This review is based on an ARC.***

As the mother of a picky eater, who I suspect might be a supertaster, I really connected with The League of Picky Eaters by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic and I think many kids will too. Minerva is a picky eater who lives in a town that reveres Eating (yes, with a capital E) so much that it even studies it in school. There are 3 Eating tracks--GAG (Gifted and Gourmet), BARF (Becoming A Real Foodie), and RETCH ( Remedial Eating to Change Habits), which is what Minerva ends up in. When Minerva's best friends are placed into the GAG program they begin shunning and bullying her. Minerva finds new friends among her weird and wonderful RETCH classmates.

This story is full of humor and wit! I loved the wacky immersion therapy lessons the RETCH students were required to go through. They were laugh out loud hysterical. The book also has some pretty good life lessons such as being weird is wonderful, and the importance of trying new things! All in all, I loved this book!