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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
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: 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
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.
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Moo Moo serves up another half-baked scheme-and loyal Mr. Quackers goes along for the ride-in this madcap follow-up to Moo Moo in a Tutu. Yes, for real! The hilarious cow-and-duck duo are opening their own five-star restaurant. Youll want to see what udderly ridiculous antics they get up to in their new adventure"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two chickens, Dinah and Rufus, find that running a diner is harder than they expected when every customer wants something that is not on the menu, until finally someone comes in for whom the Custard Surprise is just right.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"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 Kit takes her brother's place, clobbers the Green Knight,...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Appears on list
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...
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.
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
[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.
18) 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.
20) 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.