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Author
Publication Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chloe Kwon can't stand Peter Li. It's always been that way. Their families don't get along either: their parents operate rival restaurants in the Riverwood Mall food court--Korean food for the Kwons and Chinese food for the Lis. Now it's the holiday season and Chloe's the photographer at the mall's Santa Land, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium. It's all Chloe can do to avoid Peter's smug, incredibly...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors and share a cup o tea. But murder has a way of killing business ..." Nowadays Siobhan O Sullivan, along with her five siblings, runs the family bistro named for their mother. It s been a rough year for the O Sullivans, but it s about to get rougher. One morning, as they re opening the bistro, they discover a man...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
Author
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when Kit takes her brother's place, clobbers the Green Knight,...
13) The chef
Author
Series
Caleb Rooney volume 1
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty -- as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Publication Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
"Papa and the cubs take Mama to Bear Country Grill for a special treat. From getting to the restaurant until dessert time, the night is full of fun and adventure. With the Bears, nothing is boring, especially not a night out on the town."--P. [4] of cover.
16) Pizza for birds
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bob, an alligator who owns a popular restaurant for birds, now faces stiff competition from a new pizza shop in town and must cope with his resentment"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
In an adaptation of the original parody, the hound Yodeler Jones tells what happened when his beloved meatball escaped from a plateful of spaghetti and ended up under a bush outside his restaurant.
18) Hope was here
Author
Publication Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
19) Quentins
Author
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. After all, the restaurant saw the people of a city become more confident in everything, from their lifestyles to the food that they chose to eat. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal,...
20) Diner dogs
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this entertaining Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read, the diner dogs who work at the Bow Wow diner fetch tea and coffee and love belly rubs as they serve all the hungry customers.



