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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"Seventh grader Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for her dad to get a normal job and for Tia Perla to be put out to pasture. It's no fun being known as the "Taco Queen" at school. But just when it looks like Stef is going to get exactly what she wants, and her family's livelihood is threatened, she will have to become the truck's unlikely...
Author
Series
Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime on the move, Ivy Snow is an expert in all things temporary--schools, friends, and way too many Mr. Wrongs. Now that she owns a successful taco truck in San Francisco and an apartment to call home, Ivy's reinvented life is on solid ground. And she's guarded against anything that can rock it. Like the realities of a past she's worked hard to cover up. And especially Kel O'Donnell. Too hot not to set off alarms, he screams temporary....
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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With a few loyal friends in tow including her handsome attorney, Miguel, and her cat, Crème Brûlée Zoe drives the Biscuit Bowl to Charlotte, North Carolina, to enter a nationally televised food truck race. The contest features challenges across the Southeast, and with a fifty-thousand-dollar grand prize, competition isn't just fierce, it's killer. As everyone gears up for the first challenge, another food trucker from Zoe's hometown is found dead....
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Rory Perez, a food truck owner who can't cook, is struggling to keep the business she inherited from her aunt out of the red--and an upcoming contest during Modest's annual food truck festival seems the best way to do it. The prize money could finally give her a solid financial footing and keep her cousin with special needs paid up at her beloved assisted living home. Then maybe Rory will have enough time to meet the man she's been talking to via...
8) The takeout
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck
Mila may have moved to Coral Beach months ago, but it still doesn't feel like home. She wants to belong, but a few awkward incidents with her new friends make her wonder if she'll ever neatly fit into the super-samey small town. Mila feels the only place she can be herself is at her dad's Filipino-Indian food truck, The Banana...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"When she's once again passed over for a promotion at work, Zoe decides to take the big leap and go for her dream. She quits, gives up her fancy digs, and buys a fixer-upper diner in a shady part of town. To keep above water during the renovation, she buys a used food truck to serve the downtown and waterfront of Mobile, Alabama. Zoe starts to dish out classic Southern food--but her specialty is her deep-fried biscuit bowls that blow traditional bread...
10) Night lunch
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious cook whips up midnight meals for fellow night owls in a lavish lunch cart while a hungry mouse looks on in this atmospheric picture book inspired by the forerunner of food trucks and diners. A delectable picture book inspired by forerunners of food truck, for fans of The Night Gardener. Noses sniff the air as mouthwatering smells waft down city streets, luring growling bellies to the Night Owl. Inside this elegant, horse-drawn establishment,...
12) Simmer Down
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In this finger-licking good rom-com, two is the perfect number of cooks in the kitchen. Nikki DiMarco knew life wouldn't be all sunshine and coconuts when she quit her dream job to help her mom serve up mouthwatering Filipino dishes to hungry beach goers, but she didn't expect the Maui food truck scene to be so eat-or-be-eaten--or the competition to be so smoking hot. But Tiva's Filipina Kusina has faced bigger road bumps than the arrival of Callum...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara...
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English
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"This 23-piece educational puzzle engages children in two steps of creative fun. First, kids assemble the jumbo pieces to form a large (over 3 feet long) vehicle, and then they learn about various shapes or colors by placing the various included objects into the assembled layout. But the fun doesnt end there! Round pieces can be mixed and matched freely, so you decide whos driving! The illustrations and product format have been adapted for young...
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Series
Galactic hot dogs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Cosmoe the Earth-boy and his space-adventuring partners, Big Humphree and Princess Dagger, return--just in time to save the galaxy...Crostini's Cosmic Carnival is a strange, monster-filled space train that travels the galaxy. When Cosmoe catches the attention of the carnival's ringmaster, the Neon Wiener, hot-dog-selling spaceship, becomes part of the show. Cosmoe is now known as Cosmoe the Monster-Tamer--and he's a hit across the galaxy! Just one...
Author
Series
Great Peach experiment volume 1
Publisher
Pixel + Ink
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb Peach are ready for vacation. Lucy wants to read all of the books on the summer reading list. Freddy wants to work on his art projects (when he isn't stuck in summer school). Herb wants to swim every day. Then their dad makes a big announcement: one of the inventions their mom came up with before she passed away has sold, and now they're millionaires! But Dad has bigger plans than blowing the cash on fun...
Author
Series
Galactic hot dogs volume 1
Language
English
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Over the course of one very strange night, Cosmoe went from being an adventure-seeking, thirteen-year-old Earthling orphan to a hot-dog-slinging space traveler. He has all the adventure he once craved and more aboard the Neon Wiener--part spaceship, part food truck--selling their trademark "Galactic Hot Dogs." Cosmoe and the rest of the crew journey to food competitions across the universe serving up the wildly popular wieners ... until they gain...
19) Mabuhay!
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"First-generation Filipino siblings, JJ and Althea, struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. But between the leftover Filipino food their mom packs for their lunches to having a last name that nobody can pronounce, any sense of belonging seems like a long shot. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck, dressing up as a dancing pig and passing...
20) Paletero man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Follow along with our narrator as he passes through his busy neighborhood in search of the Paletero Man. But when he finally catches up with him, our narrator's pockets are empty. Oh no! What happened to his dinero? It will take the help of the community to get the tasty treat now"--Provided by publisher
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