

Millstone has several illegal agreements with the large corporate Real Fresh Dairy, and in exchange has the workers support his campaign. decided to run for mayor against the incumbent candidate, Eli Millstone. After witnessing the political corruption within Mulhoney, G.T. Stoop, is a kind-hearted man whose leukemia prevents him from working full-time at his diner. When "The Blue Box Diner" closes down because the owner stole all of the restaurant's money, Addie decides to move to Mulhoney, a small city in Wisconsin, where she and Hope can work at the small-town diner "Welcome Stairways". Hope doesn't know who her birth father is. Hope's birth mother, Deena, deemed herself unfit for parenting and gave Hope to Addie rather than raise her on her own. Hope Yancey is a teenage waitress living with her aunt Addie in Brooklyn, where Addie works as a chef at "The Blue Box Diner". In 2001 won the award Best Books for Young Adults from American Library Association (ALA). The audiobook read by Jenna Lamia won the AudioFile Earphones Award. It was declared a Newbery Honor Book in 2001. Hope Was Here is a 2000 novel by Joan Bauer. Print ( Hardback & Paperback), Compact Disc, Book on Tape
