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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Food Network
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Diners, drive-ins and dives are popular again thanks to faithful baby boomers, a slew of younger fans and a whole new generation of owners. Join Guy Fieri as he visits classic "greasy spoon" spots inthe show's second season, from classic seaside eats in Rhode Island and hidden gems on Route 66, to Kansas City BBQ joints and some of New Jersey's best diners.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafae and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow/Harper Collins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Join New York Times bestselling author Guy Fieri, host of the hugely popular Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, as he takes you on a tour of 60 more of the best local restaurants across America, as featured in his very favorite episodes. Includes recipes, photos, and memorabilia.
11) Empire Falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in...
12) The Blue Bistro
Author
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat broke by her ex-boyfriend, she is desperate to earn some fast money. When the desirable Thatcher Smith, owner of Nantucket's hottest restaurant, is the only one to offer her a job, she wonders if she can get by with no restaurant experience. Thatcher gives Adrienne a crash course in the business ......
14) Bailey's Cafe
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Bailey's Cafe, where the food may not be much but the ambience is graced by myth and magic. The cafe is home to Sadie, the ladylike alcoholic with a mania for cleanliness; to Sweet Esther, who caters to unspeakable appetites in a nearby "boarding house," taking payment only in white roses; and to Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Gloria Naylor's breathtaking new novel is an enthralling fusion of lives whose...
15) Ratatouille
Series
Language
English
Description
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage...
Publisher
Television Food Network
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Diners, drive-ins and dives are popular again thanks to faithful baby boomers, a slew of younger fans and a whole new generation of owners. Join Guy Fieri as he visits classic "greasy spoon" spots in the show's third season, from the greatest breakfasts and neighborhood favorites, to Texas style comfort food and great family-run places.
17) Twisted Creek
Author
Language
English
Description
Allie has always thought that only bad luck came her way. When she inherits the Twisted Creek cafe, at first she is waiting for the next calamity to occur, but gradually she meets the local people and realizes that she has finally found a safe haven.
20) Love me back
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Single mother Marie hides her private struggles behind her professionalism as a waitress at an upscale Dallas steak house before succumbing to self-destructive habits.