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Homberg, Ruth

Summary: Tiana warms up a cold winter day at her restaurant with a party and some yummy winter treats.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2018

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HOM

Cleary, Rhona

Summary: Arriving in NYC for a culinary apprenticeship under Chef Leroy at Harlem's most celebrated restaurant, Tiana struggles to juggle the dueling demands of her mentor while experiencing Harlem's exciting cultural scene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DIS

Gill, Jim

Summary: This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jim Gill 2009

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Marks, Janae

Summary: Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAR

Lee, Emery

Summary: "Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEE

Gregorio, I. W.

Summary: "Jocelyn "Jos" Wu has two wishes: to make it through high school without dying of boredom and to direct a short film with her best friend. Will Domenici has two goals: to get assigned to a worthwhile position at his school paper and to find a paying summer gig. When Jos's father tells her their family restaurant may be going under and Will learns he didn't land his dream job at the school...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRE

Ockler, Sarah.

Summary: Hudson Avery gave up a promising competitive ice skating career after her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old and now spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother's upstate New York diner, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OCK

Park, Suzanne

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAR

Summary: The Krusty Krab's number one fry cook, SpongeBob SquarePants, loses his job.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE SPO
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPO

Schwartz, Alexandra Cassel

Summary: "Daniel Tiger and Jodi Platypus are going to a restaurant with their families. How will they stay calm?"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019

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Krulik, Nancy E.

Summary: "Princess Pulverizer dreams of becoming a knight. Dribble the dragon, a companion on her Quest of Kindness, dreams of becoming a chef. So he's thrilled when he gets the chance to open a pop-up restaurant in the village they're visiting (though he has to stay hidden, since people are still pretty scared of dragons). But a jealous juggler isn't pleased with their arrival, and mysterious problems...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KRU

Pacton, Jamie

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAC

Yee, Lisa

Summary: "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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEE

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEE

Perelman, Helen.

Summary: Tiana has always dreamed of having her own restaurant, and now her dream is about to come true. The grand opening is just around the corner, and all of Tiana's friends and family will be there, along with a famous food critic! But suddenly everything starts to go wrong. Her bandleader Louis loses his prized trumpet. Then the power goes out after the guests arrive. Will the princess be able to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Perelman 2012

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIS

London, Jonathan

Summary: After Froggy misbehaves at a fancy restaurant, his parents take him to a fast flies restaurant to celebrate their anniversary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Lon

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LON

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LON

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1993

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Knowles, Johanna

Summary: Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Knowles 2012

Glass, Calliope.

Summary: "When Tiana gets an unexpected invitation to visit Mama Odie, she knows something must be wrong. But the truth is beyond anything she could have guessed. A dangerous jewel has been stolen from the bayou, and Mama Odie needs Tiana to get it back. With a little help from her friends, Tiana sets off to find the jewel--and return it before something terrible happens"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2013

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIS

Hale, Nathan

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019

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Turnage, Sheila.

Summary: 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 café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUR

Dodds, Dayle Ann.

Summary: Rhyming tale of five boys and their father who forget about their chores on the farm to enjoy Minnie's good cooking, each requesting double what the previous one ordered.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004

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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE DOD

Mackinnon, Mairi.

Summary: Humans are very unhappy with the food on offer at a monster diner. Thirteenth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading with children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Very

Ashman, Linda.

Summary: Alberto refuses to allow any pets into his restaurant, so his customers decide to find more fur-friendly dining options and Alberto must find a way to win them back.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2011

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Seltzer, Eric

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SEL

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