What happens when penne shares a cupboard shelf with angel hair and shells? In The Pasta Wars, these three pastas have been at war for weeks! But they soon realize they must work together to avoid being cooked. Can they survive?

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

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