Renee Beauregard Lute

Jun 25, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Renee Beauregard Lute |Jeff Kinney |Katherine Applegate |Patricia Castelao

An uplifting caper for readers who don’t mind some emotional shortcuts. Twelve-year-old Tacoma spends her evenings and weekends working at her parents’ Washington state truck stop, the Brake Fast. Socially isolated due to her work schedule and some bullies at school, Tacoma becomes cautiously excited when a musician’s tour bus breaks down at the truck stop, stranding the driver’s 13-year-old son, Denver, along with the band.

May 1, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Renee Beauregard Lute

June 2024. 208p. HarperCollins/Quill Tree, $18.99 (9780063324909). Grades 5-7. REVIEW. First published May 1, 2024 (Booklist). Having never been far from the Brake Fast, a small-town truck stop run by her parents where only breakfast dishes are served, 12-year-old Tacoma has two dreams: to drive a food truck around the country and, more immediately, to make and eat, just once, a dinner.

Mar 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Renee Beauregard Lute |Sidura Ludwig |Lynn Brunelle |Molly Ostertag

Tacoma Jones and her parents run the Brake Fast Truck Stop, a diner in Washington State that only serves breakfast. But the straitlaced 12-year-old yearns to eat something other than “eggs or oatmeal or pancakes,” and has been collecting cookbooks from different states and dreaming of meatloaf.

Jan 24, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Renee Beauregard Lute

Dinner at the Brake Fast is a hilarious and heartfelt story about road-trip mishaps, a murderous rooster, facing down anxieties, and unexpected friendship that is a must-pick for readers who loved The Science of Unbreakable Things and The First Rule of Punk. Tacoma Jones loves working at her family’s roadside diner, the Brake Fast, pouring coffee and serving eggs and muffins to truckers all day long.

Jan 24, 2024 | reneebeauregardlute.substack.com | Renee Beauregard Lute

Last year I ran Read Across America night at my kids’ elementary school, along with our awesome school librarian. My husband and I created this Kidlit Guess Who game, and when I posted it on Twitter, it got a massive response, and dozens of librarians all over the country asked for the file we created so they could make their own Guess Who game. I sent out so many files, and then I took a long leave from Twitter.