Pig-Out Inn

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In a new town, Dovis family befriends a young boy who was abandoned at their restaurant

Dovi Chandler collects yearbooks. She has them from all over the country: mementos of every time her parents uprooted her to a new town, and a new crackpot business venture. Theyve managed apartment houses, tried to save failing bookstores, even sold Tupperware, but all its ever gotten them is debt and a new yearbook for Dovi to add to the pile. Its not until her parents take over the Pig-Out Inn that Dovi feels ready to put down roots. Its just another truck-stop diner, but to Dovi its homeand she soon discovers that she and her family arent the only ones living there.

Hiding out in 1 of the cabins is a 9-year-old boy named Tag. He was stashed there by his father, who is negotiating a painful divorce. Tag is an entrepreneurial genius, and his brilliant business schemes will offer Dovi and her mother a chance to make the Pig-Out Inn a successand learn the true meaning of family.

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Full of humor... Fresh and noteworthy. School Library Journal

Author Bio

Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriams Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits, Skin Deep, and The Doll Graveyard. Her fiction runs the gamut from contemporary to historical and from realistic to paranormal. An ex-librarian, Ruby now writes full-time, in addition to speaking to bookish groups, presenting at writing workshops, and touting literacy and the joys of nourishing, thought-provoking reading in schools across the country. Ruby and her husband live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.