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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings. It's been a rough year for them, but it's about to get rougher when they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O'Sullivans, and the business being shunned, it's up to Siobhán to solve the crime.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 12
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venues for a range of human experiences. From banquets in twelfth-century China to the medicinal roots of French restaurants, the origins of restaurants are not singular--nor is the history this book tells. Katie Rawson and Elliott Shore highlight stories across time and place, including how chifa restaurants emerged from...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Description
A child describes the various little dishes of dim sum that she and her family enjoy on a visit to a restaurant in Chinatown.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite. Everything changes when Kenna wins a free dinner at The Sol Majestic, the galaxy's most renowned restaurant, giving him access to the cosmos's one-percent. His dream is jeopardized, however, when he learns his highly-publicized "free meal" risks putting The Sol Majestic into financial ruin. Kenna and a motley...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria's heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family's restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie's fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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 café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This novel is the story of Mariel and Ned, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them"--
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave...
15) Hoot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Description
Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid, Roy, and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?
16) Two eggs, please
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Managing a failed seafood restaurant in a run-down New England mall just before Christmas, Manny DeLeon coordinates a challenging final shift of mutinous staff members, an effort that is complicated by his love for a waitress, a pregnant girlfriend, and an elusive holiday gift.
20) Dessert first
Author
Series
Dessert Schneider books volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Third-grader Dessert's love of treats leads to a change in her large family's dinner routine, then an awful mistake, and later a true sacrifice after her teacher, Mrs. Howdy Doody, urges students to march to the beat of their own drums.
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