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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
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
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Wanting to try new things, Samson aspires to sample fine cuisine at fancy restaurants before discovering that the new restaurants in his corner of the sea are not exactly welcoming to customers with big teeth and scary smiles.
6) Funny Lunch
Author
Series
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.
8) Cafe cosmos
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The cheese-loving owner of the first dairy diner in space invents a new dessert for a finicky customer.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
A dual-narrative romance that explores themes of mental health and self-acceptance follows the experiences of a teen filmmaker and an aspiring school paper editor who work together to upgrade and promote a struggling Chinese restaurant--
Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
11) Hope was here
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
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...
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.
14) Out to lunch
Author
Series
Joe the frog volume 3
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.
15) 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.
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.
17) Cold case
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When thirteen-year-old Oz Keiller finds a dead body in his family's Santa Fe, New Mexico, restaurant, he is determined to solve the mystery in which his older brother is implicated, but which also involves their long-dead father, who was accused of being a spy.
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.