00920cam a2200229 4500 116230958 TxAuBib 20041002120000.0 000329s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00038232 9780399231421 0399231420 DLC DLC TPL TxAuBib Bauer, Joan, 1951- Hope was here / Joan Bauer. New York : Putnam, 2000. 186 p. ; 22 cm. 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. Diners (Restaurants) Fiction. Politics, Practical Fiction. Cancer Fiction.