Summary: 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. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE G. This edition published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005 Published by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2002 Putnam’s Sons,Ī division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2000 Registered Offices: Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, Englandįirst published in the United States of America by G. Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany,Īuckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2

Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. You need constants in your life.” She had a different hair color each time she said it. What were the pitfalls what was the biggest tip she ever got.Įach time she told me, “Hon, leaving you with Addie was the best thing I could have done for you. I’ve seen her exactly three times since I was born-when she visited me on my fifth, eighth, and thirteenth birthdays.Įach time she talked about being a waitress. My mother didn’t want the responsibility of a baby so she left me with Addie, her older sister, and went off to live her own life. The doctors didn’t think I would make it. For the first month of my life I kept gasping for air, like I couldn’t get the hang of breathing. I was born early and much too small (two pounds and five ounces).

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer