num_pages: 160
description: In the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, everything comes on a waffle--lasagna, fish, you name it. Even waffles! Eleven-year-old Primrose Squarp loves this homey place, especially its owner, Kate Bowzer, who takes her under her wing, teaches her how to cook, and doesn't patronize or chastise her, even when she puts her guinea pig too close to the oven and it catches fire. Primrose can use a little extra attention. Her parents were lost at sea, and everyone but her thinks they are dead. Her Uncle Jack, who kindly takes her in, is perfectly nice, but doesn't have much time on his hands. Miss Perfidy, her paid babysitter-guardian, smells like mothballs and really doesn't like children, and her school guidance counselor, Miss Honeycut, an uppity British woman of the world, is too caught up in her own long-winded stories to be any kind of confidante. Nobody knows what exactly to think of young Primrose, and Primrose doesn't quite know what to make of her small community, either.
language: English
title: Everything on a Waffle
titlecomplete: Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Chapter Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Family, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 11087
places: Canada, British Columbia
series: Coal Harbour
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)