Hope Was Here
by Bauer, Joan
YALSA Top TenSLJ Best BookChristopher AwardALA Notable/Best BooksNewbery HonorYoung Reader's Choice Award/NomineeSmithsonian's Notable BookPolitics
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AR Book Level
5.1
AR Points
6
Word Count
41,673
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
44672 EN
About this book
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 in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.