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"All's fair in love and (food truck) war. Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists....
2) The takeout
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"Mila may have moved to Coral Beach months ago, but it still doesn't feel like home. A few awkward incidents with her new friends make her wonder if she'll ever neatly fit into the super-samey small town. The only place she can be herself is at her dad's Filipino Indian food truck, the Banana Leaf. But when twin celebrity chefs the Fab Foodie Brothers open a restaurant nearby, it turns out the food they are serving is exactly the same as the Banana...
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Ground Rules volume 2
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English
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"At Campathon, an annual eco-friendly festival held on a farm outside of Portland ... Sage has scored a coveted place for her Ground Rules coffee cart thanks to her new-ish boyfriend, Bax, who's friendly with Maya, one of the musicians performing ... When Sage stumbles upon [a] dead body in the nearby woods--his hand still clutching one of her coffee mugs--it's clear that someone's grudge boiled over into murder"--
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Private Investigator Carson Ford specialises in finding people. Yet when he has to look for a mystery woman predicted to be his widowed father's 'second great love'--he's stumped! The single dad knows that's not how love works! This is an elaborate swindle ... and it starts with the fortune-teller's daughter.All Chef Olivia Mack can do is confirm that her late mother's predictions were usually true. She won't admit that she might know who the second...
5) Food trucks!
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English
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Uses illustrations and short rhymes, interspersed with facts about foods, food-related holidays, and more, to introduce food trucks and the many treats they offer, from a full breakfast to a cupcake.
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Ground Rules volume 3
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English
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"To top off her coffee business, Sage is now helping out with her boyfriend Bax's gaming company...That makes it easy for her to pitch in with Bax's employee team-building event. The plan is to boost morale with a scavenger hunt. And it seems to be goingwell--until Robbie, a programmer known for being a prankster, turns up dead in Sage's roastery. There are two suspects so far--Now, it's up to Sage to find the culprit--before another life grinds to...
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Food festival mysteries (Penny Pike) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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While competing for first place in San Francisco's Chocolate Festival, food-truck vendor Darcy Burnett and her Aunt Abby investigate when one of the judges is found murdered in a vat of chocolate.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
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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.
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2015.
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With a few loyal friends in tow--including her handsome attorney, Miguel, and her cat, Crème Brûlée--Zoe drives the Buscuit 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.
10) Killer takeout
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Every year, Key West's weeklong Mardi Gras-style festival has tourists and locals alike lining up for costumed revelry and delicious eats. Key Zest magazine has assigned Hayley to write a piece on the fest's grab-and-go food, so she's planning on hitting up the mobile eateries while checking out the party preparations. Hayley's office mate and recently elected queen of Fantasy Fest, Danielle, is also buzzing between festivities and fundraisers. But...
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Food festival mysteries (Penny Pike) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Eager to take a break from bustling San Francisco, Darcy and her aunt Abby pack up the food truck and head for the apple festival in Apple Valley, California. Aunt Abby is sure her caramel-apple tarts will be a hit, and Darcy wants to collect more recipes for her food truck cookbook. But when a fellow guest at the Enchanted Apple Inn is pared down - and the inn's owner ends up as the prime suspect - Darcy must peel away the layers of the mystery....
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2015.
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Two weeks of carnival celebrations has got Zoe running ragged. By day, she charms hungry tourists with authentic Southern cuisine. At night, she accompanies her father to one masquerade ball after another, hobnobbing with the high rollers of the secret cabal known as the Mistics of Time. But the fun turns frightening when Zoe stumbles across “Death's” dead body. Journalist Jordan Phillips attended the Mistics' latest bash in a traditional Death...
14) Paletero man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
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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 entire community to get the tasty treat now."--
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Galactic hot dogs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
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English
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From the creator of the bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth! In this second installment of Cosmoe's wild space adventures, the fearless hot-dog-selling crew take their wares to the circus only to discover things are not as they seem!
Nothing goes better with the circus than a good wiener! So, when Neon Wiener is offered a position as the official food cart for Crostini's Cosmic Carnival and Wonder Circus Train, Humphree is over...
Nothing goes better with the circus than a good wiener! So, when Neon Wiener is offered a position as the official food cart for Crostini's Cosmic Carnival and Wonder Circus Train, Humphree is over...
17) Mabuhay!
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 300L
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English
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"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...
18) Just try it!
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[2024]
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English
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Phil tries to introduce his daughter Lil to all different kinds of cuisine at the food truck festival, but Lil is hesitant to try anything new until he reminds her to keep herself open to new possibilities and to try things at least once.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Español
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"Inspired by the Lucky Band's popular song of the same name, Paletero Man is a refreshing tale of determination, kindness, ice pops - and the true meaning of being part of a community" --
"Inspirado en la canción Paletero Man interpretada por Luck Band. "¡Qué paletero tan cool!" es un cuento refrescante, lleno de determinación, cariño, paletas - y de lo que verdaderamente significa ser parte de una comunidad" --
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"This summer, Becca is looking forward to selling her delicious jams and preserves, but things are changing fast at the farmers' market. A fleet of food trucks has arrived for a two week visit, peddling cupcakes, tacos, chicken wings, and more--including a gourmet hot dog truck operated by Becca's own cousin, Peyton. Tensions between truck operators and market vendors over their required licenses reach a crescendo when the town's business manager...
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