TY - BOOK AU - Bauer,Joan TI - Hope Was Here SN - 0-698-11951-7 PY - 2000/// CY - New York, NY PB - Puffin Books KW - Diners (Restaurants) KW - Fiction KW - Politics, Practical KW - Cancer N1 - Newbery Honor Book/ Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee N2 - 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 ER -