| Note |
Includes chapter from "Close to famous" by Joan Bauer. |
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Includes discussion guide and recipe. |
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Published also by Puffin Books. |
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Published also by Scholastic. |
| NOTE |
Accelerated Reader MG 5.1 6 44672 |
| Summary |
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. |
| Audience |
710L Lexile |
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Grades 7-9. |
| Awards |
Newbery Honor Book, 2001. |
| Subject |
Diners (Restaurants) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Politics, Practical -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cancer -- Juvenile fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780142404249
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0142404241
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| STANDARD # |
9780142404249 50795 |
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