family-owned business enterprises

"Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses--an Asian American cafe and a Puerto Rican bakery--and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood is secure. So when a new fusion cafe threatens both shops, Theo and Gabi realize an unfortunate truth--they can only achieve their goals by working together to cook up an underground bakery operation and win back their customers. But can they put aside their differences long enough to save their parents' shops or will the new feelings between them boil over?"--Provided by publisher.

"In a grand glass house, there was a girl named Bess whose power would, one day, change the fate of her family . . . Bess Wickham has always felt like a bit of an outcast among her family of extraordinary glassblowers, but then an immense, magical power that's lain dormant in her bloodline begins to emerge. So, when she suspects her family's business has taken a sinister turn, Bess must find the strength to defeat dark magic and save a certain cinder girl. But will she shatter under the weight of such evil or get her happily ever after?"--Amazon.

A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.

A young Black boy helps his grandfather harvest and sell produce each week at his farm stand. But Papa is getting older and when one day he is too tired to go to the market, his grandson and the community rally around to support him.

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein. Includes author's note.

"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way past all that has been said--and left unsaid--to save each other?"--Provided by publisher.

"Eleven-year-old Sam, who lives with her siblings and mothers in a house on Sunrise Lagoon, tries to come up with a plan to save the family's charter boat business before the summer is over"--Provided by publisher.

Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.

"Twelve-year-old Luca Salvatore is always running interference: in arguments between his younger twin siblings, in his parents' troubled marriage, and between Will, the cute new boy in town, and Luca's best friend, June, who just can't seem to get along. When the host of his favorite culinary TV show announces an open call for submissions for its final season, Luca is sure getting his family's failing pizzeria on the show will save the restaurant and keep his family from completely falling apart. Surprisingly, securing a spot is easier than kneading dough--but when the plan to fix everything comes out burnt, Luca is left scrambling to figure out just the right recipe to bring his family and his friends back together"--Provided by publisher.

Spending the summer in Barcelona with her family, Stefi reinvents herself in this beautiful city where she meets and falls in love with Xavi, who runs his family's popular tapas spot--and who, unbeknownst to her, is the secret heir to the Spanish throne.