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Hope Was Here audiobook

  • By: Joan Bauer
  • Narrator: Jenna Lamia
  • Category: Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
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Hope Was Here Audiobook Summary

A Newbery Honor Book

Food is in 16-year-old Hope’s blood. With her Aunt Addie, diner cook extraordinaire, she travels the States and hones her waitressing skills, impressing hungry people everywhere. But following the tides of comfort food dining means Hope never gets to stay in one place very long, and that’s tough. 

The latest move threatens to be the hardest yet, leaving the excitement of New York City to run a diner in rural Wisconsin. Hope doesn’t expect to feel at home there, just as she doesn’t expect to get caught up in town politics. But her occupation has taught her to read people, and instinct tells her to trust G.T. Stoop, the straight-shooting owner of the Welcome Stairways Diner, whose leukemia makes his entry into a heated mayoral race a surprise to everyone. 

What follows—as Hope meets politics, corruption, and her past head-on—is at the heart of this memorable, laugh-out-loud story about honor, trust, and serving up your very best.

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Narrator Jenna Lamia
Length 4 hours 31 minutes
Author Joan Bauer
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9780807216996

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The publisher of the Hope Was Here is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: classic children's books, newberry award books ages 9-12, newbery award winners, award winning childrens books, newberry award books ages 12-15, newbery award books, newberry award books ages 9 12, family, books for 12 year old boys, books for 13 year old girls, books for 12 year old girls, books for 13 year old boys, teen books for boys, books for 10 year old girls, teen fiction books, tween books for girls ages 11-14, books for 11 year old boys, kids books ages 9-12, books for kids age 9 12, Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women The BISAC Subject Code is Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Additional info

The publisher of the Hope Was Here is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Listening Library. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780807216996.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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