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Author
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to land their highest paying job yet--until they get to the house and realize they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, Bree and Malia's archnemesis since preschool. Babysitting: not just for babies, apparently. And it's too much money to walk away from...so at least there are no diapers? But all of the babysitting in the world couldn't prepare the girls for their unusual new charge, and even though Zelda should be the one...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation.
Author
Series
Fourth stall volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a cater-waiter who's a hopeless romantic flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy"--
Their families have been in business together for years: Quinn Berkowitz's parents are wedding planners (she's the harpist), and Tarek' Mansour's own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email-- and...
Author
Series
Craftily ever after volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Maddie, Sam, Emily, and Bella have been busy at their craft clubhouse--so busy, in fact, that their supplies are starting to dwindle. It's time to stock up! In order to add a little money to their piggy bank, the friends decide to combine their skills and create their own business: an agua fresca stand! But something's not quite right. While the stand looks fabulous, the agua fresca is...not. Can these crafty kids save their business before it's...
6) The takeout
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.
Author
Series
Eat bugs volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seeking funding for their edible insect business, with the ultimate goal of getting their tortilla chips made with cricket powder on every grocery store shelf, twelve-year-olds Hallie and Jaye enter the county startup pitch competition to try and win tickets to New York City to compete in the next round.
Author
Series
Zara's rules volume 2
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After Zara's bike goes missing, her parents insist on her earning money to pay for it, so she and her friend Naomi turn their red wagon into The Treasure Wagon and try and sell some old knickknacks found in her family's basement.
Author
Series
Agents of H.E.A.R.T volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl's wish to help out in her family's seaside café gets out of hand when she accidentally summons a rescue squad of fairytale princesses."--
Author
Series
Fourth stall volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mac and Vince have gotten out of their middle school underworld crime business, but an upstart rival business and a run-in with an old nemesis pull them back in"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tallulah the Tooth Fairy, a black businesswoman who runs one of the most successful tooth collecting organizations in the world, finds herself unexpectedly stumped when six-year-old Ballard Burchell leaves a note instead of his tooth under his pillow.
12) Karthik delivers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Wednesday Wilson volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Wednesday Wilson is in a major funk, and the only thing that can make this day worse is that funks are contagious...and hers is rubbing off on her brother, Mister. When Wednesday discovers that the true cause of Mister's funk is having to present his family tree at the school assembly, she devises a plan to get Mister a Worry Marble that will fix all his problems. And then a crowd of kids at recess also want Worry Marbles to fix their problems, and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Even though twelve-year-old Pixie prefers to blend into the background, she might have to step closer to the center of attention when her friend runs for class president and when her mom leaves town indefinitely, leaving her parent's party planning business in need of a British-accented punk mermaid.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the opportunity arises, Shirley, the daughter of immigrants who live above their corner grocery store, turns some overlooked gefilte fish into a marketing strategy that changes the flavor of the neighborhood.
Author
Series
Nightmare thief volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Maren breaks the strict rules of her family's dream shop to help her comatose sister, she is caught and blackmailed by a woman with evil plans for the town of Rockpool Bay.--
17) Donut delivery!
Author
Series
Donut dreams volume 8
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Casey is planning lots of fun things to do over spring break with her BFF Lindsay. But her parents ruin her plans when they tell her she has to join them on a family trip to look at colleges with her older sister, Gabby. Casey is devastated until things take a surprising turn for the better when she runs into her summer crush, Matt! Matt is not only as smart and cute as Casey remembered, but he gives her an idea to make Donut Dreams donuts even more...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After her father goes to jail, Cady Bennett, twelve, is taken from foster care to spend a summer with her estranged Aunt Michelle, trying to save her failing pie shop.
Author
Publisher
Page Two Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A STEM book for young innovators everywhere, for you are never too small to dream big! This much-anticipated companion to Ara The Star Engineer spotlights the innovation journey, introducing readers to what it takes to start a start-up, and turn ideas into reality. Ara is a young girl who loves to dream BIG. Many of her amazing ideas come to her in her dreams. So Ara builds a Dream Decoder to capture them. But other kids have big dreams too. What...
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
En un día caluroso de verano, Lucía y su hermano acompañan a su madre a vender churros deliciosos y azucarados en las bulliciosas calles de Nueva York. Pero cuando se acerca una tormenta y los clientes huyen, la madre de Lucía improvisa con un poco de magia y mucho amor. Inspirado en la relación de la autora con su propia madre, este libro conmovedor celebra el amor, la comunidad y el CRUJIDO, ESTALLIDO y CHISPORROTEO de un churro perfecto.
Lucia...
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