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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by her grandparents' bakery and her recent visit to Paris, nine-year-old Grace leads her friends in starting La Petite Patisserie, making and selling French pastries at school and special events, but they soon discover that starting a new business is not always easy--or fun.
Author
Series
Donut dreams volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lindsay Cooper is about to start middle school. In her free time, she works at her family's restaurant, The Park View, handing out the world's most delicious donuts at the Donut Dreams counter. Her grandmother started the counter as a way to send Lindsay's dad to college, and Lindsay wants to use her job the same way--to make her dream of going to school far away from her small town a reality. Home feels different ever since Lindsay's mom passed...
3) So Jelly!
Author
Series
Donut dreams volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Happy-go-lucky Kelsey hasn't been so happy-go-lucky lately. She's starting to feel pretty jealous of her cousin Lindsay and all the extra time Lindsay is spending with her aunt, who just happens to be Kelsey's mom! But Kelsey soon discovers the love she and her family have for one another is like a box of donuts - there's always enough to share!--
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...
5) Flat broke
Author
Series
Kevin Spencer books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Determined to find a cure for his burping, George returns to Ernie's Ice Cream Emporium in search of a secret ingredient, but when a rival ice cream shop opens, George tries to keep Ernie's in business so he can solve his problem.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
10) The lemonade war
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 7
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy Clancy and her friend Bree try to start a business to get rich, but when things don't go as planned, Nancy learns a valuable lesson.
Author
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When other commitments threaten the success of the Best Babysitters Ever, Malia is frustrated until she comes up with a plan to hire new babysitters and take a cut of their wages.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Nigel looks up at the moon, his future is bright. He imagines himself as...an astronaut, a dancer, a superhero, too! Among the stars, he twirls. With pride, his chest swells. And his eyes, they glow. Nigel is the most brilliant body in the sky. But it's Career Week at school, and Nigel can't find the courage to share his dreams. It's easy to whisper them to the moon, but not to his classmates--especially when he already feels out of place.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Sometimes, one moment changes a person's life. And that person goes on to change other lives. That's what happened to Frances Perkins. After she witnessed the 1911 catastrophic fire at the Triangle Waist Company, in which one hundred and forty-six people died, she devoted her life to improving conditions for workers. Frances became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet. As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped...
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