The Pizza Mystery
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.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), orphans, family, mystery and detective stories, restaurants [X], restaurants, bars, etc, brothers and sisters, families [X], family life, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, pizza, detective and mystery fiction, adaptations, readers (publications)
Mo Wren, Lost And Found
When eleven-year-old Mo's mother dies in an accident and Mo's devastated father deals with the loss by moving the family to a new town and starting a new life as the owner of a sports bar, Mo must leave her much loved neighborhood on Fox Street to live in an apartment above the "cursed" Corkey's Tavern.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
Crash
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.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
Check, Please!
Frannie goes to dinner at a brand new French restaurant and tries her hand at being a food critic, even as she starts a campaign to warn other diners that there are insects on the menu.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: restaurants [X], journalists, cooking, french, human behavior, families [X], new york (state)
The Dancing Pancake
Eleven-year-old Belinda "Bindi" Winkler and her family find their way through tough times with the love and support of the community that grows around their newly opened restaurant, "The Dancing Pancake.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
Stay With Me
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and C?ce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison, he pushes C?ce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
The Hundred-foot Journey
Born above his grandfather's modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mother.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1190
subjects: cooks, restaurants [X], families [X], cooking, city and town life, india, alps, french (france), paris (france), domestic fiction
Somewhere Between Bitter And Sweet
Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mexican americans, families [X], restaurants [X], cooking, mexican, fathers, immigrants, illegal aliens, family life, love, social problem fiction, romance fiction, illegal immigration, noncitizens, mexican cooking, unauthorized immigrants
On Air With Zoe Washington
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters, podcasts, restaurants [X], families [X], african americans, family life, father-daughter relationship