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Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.

Young Mustafa gets very bored in his father's shop in Morocco especially when his father tries to teach him new languages. One day he runs from the shop to the marketplace and is able to welcome tourists in their native languages. In gratitude they follow Mustafa back to his father's shop and buy new things.

Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

The hip, hot Candystore Man dispenses a variety of treats, from ice cream and lollipops to jellybeans and jawbreakers.

A little girl describes what a day is like in her parents' Chinese store in Guatemala City.