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Tea & Treats Enjoy stories that feature tea shops, cafés, coffee shops and all kinds of favorite treats! October & November 2025 |
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Becoming Boba
by Joanna Ho
Mindy isn't like the classic milk tea flavors, so she dives into their history and learns something surprising, in a story about self-love and being true to who you are and with a subtle message about the immigrant experience.
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I Love Boba: Wo ai zhen zhu nai cha!
by Katrina Liu
A bilingual picture book (in Chinese and English) celebrating boba and Asian culture! This book can be enjoyed by any boba lover and features a fun and whimsical rhyming story describing the many amazing reasons why boba is so great!
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Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments
by Victoria Grace Elliott
This mouthwatering nonfiction graphic novel, with a story and recipe for every chapter, explores the history of some of our favorite foods, including cheese, soda, pickles and pizza.
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Juvenile Fiction & JGRAPHIC
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Swimming Into Trouble
by Angela Ahn
As a member of the Vipers Swim Team, Julia Nam's always in the pool. Mountainview Community Centre is like her second home, not only because swimming at the aquatic centre is her favourite thing in the world, but also because her parents run the centre's sushi cafe. Julia would much rather be in the pool than sitting behind the counter of Sushi on the Go! watching other people swim. She's the youngest swimmer on the team, but definitely not the slowest. Julia can't wait for Personal Best Day - the most important day for all of the swimmers. If their times are good enough, they can enter a big regional swim meet. But then the worst thing happens. A sharp pain in Julia's ear reveals an infection and she's forbidden to swim for ten days. How can she get timed during Personal Best Day when she's not allowed in the water? Julia is desperate to get back in the pool, even if it means having to go behind her parents' backs in order to do so. But Julia's solution lands her in a sticky situation, and it's going to require the entire community centre to come together to help her out of it!
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It's Boba Time for Pearl Li!
by Nicole Chen
To save her favorite tea shop from closing, a big-hearted Taiwanese American girl with a passion for crochet decides to sell her amigurumi creations to raise money for the shop, which becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined.
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Welcome to the Creature Café by Jennifer CastleAs the grand opening of their café for animals quickly approaches, its sibling owners, called the Aristokittens, must learn to compromise to avoid a total catastrophe.
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Super Boba Café by Nidhi ChananiWhen her granddaughter Aria comes to stay with her, making it her mission to turn her boba café around, Jing Li, who is the secret keeper of the monster of San Francisco, is overrun with customers while Aria sneaks away to reason with the earthquake-causing monster.
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Best Friend
by Vicky Fang
Excited for the first day of school, brand-new first grader Ava Lin, who loves bubble tea, finding treasures and animals, is determined to find a best friend and must navigate some confusing social rules, with unintended and hilarious results.
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Wishing on Matzo Ball Soup! by Lisa GreenwaldTo save her family's deli, 11-year-old Ellie makes a wish on matzo ball soup and enlists the help of her BFF, her sisters, her lunch buddies and her grandparents to prove that old-fashioned Jewish delis can get with the times.
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The (Not So) Superheroes
by Swapna Haddow
The Terrible Trio is a fun illustrated series, best described as The Bad Guys meets Madagascar! -- In a world where all animals have superpowers, Zeb the zebra, Margarine the penguin, and Barry the lemur have the WORST powers of all -- Zeb, Margarine, and Barry end up at the back of the line to have the Superpower Supermarket Manager grant them their superpowers and end up getting the short end of the stick. Margarine is granted the special ability to make macaroni and cheese. Barry the Lemur is gifted with the power to write neatly. And Zeb the Zebra can now blend in with a crosswalk...Working at a café and watching everybody else save the world day in and day out, Zeb, Margarine, and Barry wonder if they will ever get to be superheroes for a day themselves.
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Ice Cream Boy
by Lindsay Littleson
Luca thinks his future is set, running his family's ice cream cafe. But when the business might close and his gran begins struggling with dementia, Luca feels increasingly lost. A heartwarming story of family, resilience and hope.
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Noodle & Bao
by Shaina Lu
Follows Momo, a girl who helps her friend's humble food cart stand its ground against the gentrification of their Chinatown neighborhood.
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Salsa Magic
by Letisha Marrero
Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Taza, serving up sandwiches de pernil, mofongo, and the best cafés con leche in all of Brooklyn. One day, an unexpected visit from the estranged Titi Yaya from Puerto Rico changes everything. Because Yaya practices santeria, Abuela tells Maya and the other Calderon children to stay away from her. But if la viejita is indeed estranged from the family, why does Maya feel so connected to this woman she has never met before? And who is this orisha named Yemaya? On top of figuring all this out, Maya has a budding soccer career to consider, while fending off the local bully, and dealing with nascent feelings toward her teammate. But through it all, there's that alluring connection to a forbidden ancient practice--filled with a pantheon of Yoruban gods and goddesses--that keeps tugging at her, offering her a new perspective in life, tying her past to her present and future. Which path will Maya choose to fulfill her destiny?
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The Sister Switch
by Sarah Mlynowski
This exciting new series following a magical bracelet that's sent to different girls across the country is like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants for Middle Grades! In this second installment, co-written by bestselling authors Sarah Mlynowski and Debbie Rigaud, the bracelet comes to a girl in Ohio, and kicks off a Freaky Friday-style adventure. Ten-year-old Addie Asante of Columbus, Ohio, is sick of being the middle sister. Her big sister, Sophie, can do whatever she wants, and her little sister, Camille, is totally spoiled. When Addie receives a mysterious box in the mail containing a magical bracelet--and a note from a girl in New York named Becca--she's intrigued. Addie makes a wish on the bracelet to no longer be in the middle and suddenly--POOF--she's literally transformed into her big sister! At first, getting to be Sophie is amazing: Addie is allowed to hang out at the coffee shop after school, have her own room, AND participate in the school talent show... this is the life! But as her new long-distance friend Becca warns Addie, this wish-granting bracelet isn't all that it seems. Having a wish come true can get really messy really fast. Plus, in a twist of magical chaos, Addie's big sister has become the baby sister, and Addie's baby sister is living as ADDIE! With friendships--and school tests--on the line, and a sneaky stranger determined to get her hands on the magic bracelet... can Addie and her sisters find a way to switch things BACK before it's too late?
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Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life
by Suzanne Nelson
When her best friend Daniel concocts an elaborate plot to ask the new girl at school to the fall dance, Nadine realizes she has fallen for Daniel herself but fears she does not have the courage to tell him how she feels. Includes recipes
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Too Uncool for School
by James Patterson
Rafe Khatchadorian is finally cool when he becomes guitarist in a rock band and gets a job at a coffee/yoga studio, but Rafe must get the band, led by the school bully, into shape before the competition.
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Pizza My Heart
by Rhiannon Richardson
Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping ... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that same rude--and, okay, cute--boy shows up at her school, Maya's convinced nothing can go right. But she may be in for some surprises. Could good friends, secret crushes, and creative pizza toppings turn Maya's new home into her own slice of heaven?
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Bubble Trouble
by Wendy Wan Long Shang
Chloe loves musicals and is desperate to go on the class trip to Broadway, but since her mother died money has been tight, and her father's zany inventions are not selling--so with the help of her best friend Sabrina Chloe comes up with a way to make some money by making and selling boba tea.
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Robbie the Rebel Squirrel
by Stella Tarakson
Along with her friend Blake, Ellie is desperately searching for answers about what happened to her great-grandfather years ago. But when they get caught up in the middle of an animal war in the local park, they have more pressing things to think about. Robbie the red squirrel and his clan are clashing with the bigger, meaner grey squirrels. As Robbie bravely stands up to the Greys, Ellie and Blake do their best to stop the squirrels from fighting and bring peace to the park. Join Ellie and Blake as they start new lives in a new town and a mysterious old building.
They've only just met, but already they share a magical secret: they can talk to animals! That could prove useful with Ellie's mom opening a cat café, but the café is under threat from a greedy property developer - unless Ellie and Blake can stop him.
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