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"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 atrium. It's all Chloe can do to avoid Peter's smug, incredibly...
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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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Zoe Washington stories volume 2
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English
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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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Candlewick Press
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English
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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 point.
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Fly Guy volume 12
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Cartwheel Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.
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2019
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English
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Sid, Axl, and Ivan volunteer to make a late-night fast-food run for the high school theater crew, and when they return, they find themselves. Not in a deep, metaphoric sense: They find copies of themselves onstage. As they look closer, they begin to realize that the world around them isn't quite right. Turns out, when they went to the taco place across town, they actually crossed into an alien dimension that's eerily similar to their world. The
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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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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"--
11) Froggy eats out
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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After Froggy misbehaves at a fancy restaurant, his parents take him to a fast flies restaurant to celebrate their anniversary.
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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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.
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Joey Pigza books volume 4
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2007.
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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.
14) Café con Lychee
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"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 leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood...
17) Frank and Ernest
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Green Tiger Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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An elephant and a bear take over a diner and find out about responsibility and food language.
18) Hope was here
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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.
19) Lucky for good
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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.
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Usborne very first reading volume 13
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EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Humans are very unhappy with the food offered 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.
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