# The Search for Delicious

**Author:** Natalie Babbitt
**Grade range:** Grades 2–3
**Age range:** 7–8
**First published:** 1969
**Page count:** 167
**Genre:** Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780808552413`
**ISBN-10:** `0808552414`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-search-for-delicious
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country.

## Themes

- fantasy fiction
- messengers
- fantasy
- fantasmes

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 read-aloud story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 read-aloud story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)

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