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Home for meow volume 2
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English
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"Kira Parker lives above the Purrfect Cup, the cat café that her family owns and runs. And soon, the café will get new kittens! Bubbles's belly has been growing bigger and bigger, and on Kira's first day of school, Bubbles finally becomes a mama cat. But she has six kittens, which is ... too many! Not to worry though, because Kira has a GREAT IDEA. She's going to find each kitten a family by matching them with her classmates! But matchmaking isn't...
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Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Language
English
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
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English
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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.
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Home for meow volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every home needs a cat! Kira Parker lives above The Purrfect Cup, the cat café that her family owns and runs. When her parents decide they want to renovate it, she is worried because it means knocking down a wall! Why would they do that when the café is already purrfect? When a stray cat and its puppy companion find their way into the café, Kira has the GREAT IDEA to convince her parents that they belong at The Purrfect Cup. They don’t...
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Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Davico lives with his family on the second floor of La Casita -- the Little House -- in Guatemala City in the 1950s. But it's not just a little house -- it's also a restaurant! Davico and his brother Felipe love to spend time playing in the restaurant kitchen watching the lobster they've named Genghis Khan crawl around its glass tank. But one day, Davico hears shooting in the streets. There are blackouts every evening, and people stop coming to the...
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Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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"A MYSTERIOUS DOORWAY! (Sure, it's in the grossest restaurant in the world, but that doesn't make it any less mysterious. OK?) Behold! What lies beyond?! An evil centipede? An alternate universe? A few decent explanations? VRRRING! NING! NING! NING! Hey, was that a CHAINSAW?! Let's see if you can read and run at the same time... GO! It's the Bad Guys' next adventure!"--
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All four stars volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Just as Gladys Gatsby prepares to enter the complicated world of middle school, her secret gig as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic won't be a secret much longer--and Gladys must enlist the help of her Parisian aunt to be true to herself, and honest with her friends and family"--
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Series
Quinnie Boyd mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A fancy fine dining establishment has opened in Quinnie Boyd's Maine town, creating new competition for her father's humble café. When things start to go wrong at the café, Quinnie suspects the people behind the new restaurant are to blame"--
11) Lost in Rome
Author
Series
Lost in-- volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lucia "Lucy" Rossi thought she was going to be a camp counselor for the summer, but, thanks to a very fortunate twist, she ends up in Rome, Italy, helping out at her aunt's restaurant, Amore Pizzeria. Lucy can't wait to see some ruins, eat all the gelato she can, and maybe say a few buongiornos to some cute Italian boys. But Lucy arrives to Italian trouble. Her aunt is in danger of losing her business, thanks to a flashy new pizzeria down the road...
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Joey Pigza books volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.
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Princess Pulverizer volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Princess Pulverizer's friend Dribble the dragon gets the chance to run his own restaurant but when villagers start feeling sick to their stomachs, Dribble is blamed. Princess Puverizer must clear her friend's name before his reputation is ruined.
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English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [Grades 3-5]
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [Grades 3-5]
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"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"--
17) Lucky for good
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English
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The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
19) Just Desserts
Author
Series
Dessert Schneider books volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Dessert, inspired by Mrs. Howdy Doody's lessons about the American Revolution, decides she and her friends should fight back against annoying siblings, but the club she starts only makes matters worse.
Author
Series
Dessert Schneider books volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Donahue "Dessert" Schneider is feeling completely ignored and unloved at home, but she is certain that will change when her invention wins the Thomas Edison Contest at school.
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