Hope was here
Joan Bauer.
- New York : Speak, 2005, c2000.
- 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Wilson's Junior High School, September 2001 School Library Journal starred, November 2000 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2001 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002 Publisher's Weekly, September 2000 Booklist, March 2001 New York Times, November 2000 Horn Book, September 2000 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), September 2000
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.