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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now age eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac, Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
2) Pizza pig
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pig enjoys making just the right pizza to delight each of his customers, so when Turtle will not eat he must figure out why.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 12
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have different plans—leaving Pen to choose between disappointing her traditional Mexican American parents or following her own path. When she confesses a secret she's been keeping, her world is sent into a tailspin. But then she meets a cute new hire at Nacho's who sees through her hard exterior and asks the questions...
8) Funny Lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Max Spaniel, a dog that considers itself to be a great chef, comes up with a creative solution when a bus full of people place a large order at his diner.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A small and ordinary fish named Glub asks himself the big questions in life as he observes life in the diner beyond his fishbowl. Who am I? Where do I belong? The lively characters around him provide unexpected answers, but soon it's Glub who reveals answers to their questions -- and their hearts' true desires.
10) Keeping the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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.
13) Crash
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jules, whose family owns an Italian restaurant and has a history of mental illness, starts seeing a recurring vision about a rival restaurant, a truck crash, and forbidden love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom's plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) and at the Golden Palace--the restaurant that's been in her family for generations--she makes some discoveries. For instance:
You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food.
And...
15) Apocalypse taco
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Twins Axl and Ivan, with Sid as their driver, make a late-night fast-food run for a high school theater crew but return to discover that goo monsters are copying--and mutating--everything in sight
16) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Cece, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Cece away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
17) Out to lunch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A mischievous frog makes a scene when his parents take him to a fancy restaurant to eat.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
19) Burger Wuss
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
20) Lucky for Good
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the cafe, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
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