PICTURE BOOK Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard; illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal; Roaring Brook Press ($18.99) … Kevin Noble Maillard, a member of the Seminole ...

Fry bread is one of those beloved yet divisive family foods. As with potato salad or matzo ball soup, often the only thing people can agree on is that everyone else is wrong.

For him, fry bread — heaped with meat, beans, cheese and all the fixings — is the native version of the American hamburger, just as basic and every bit as drool-worthy.