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Fourth stall volume 1
Language
English
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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
Series
Fourth stall volume 2
Language
English
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Six-graders Mac and Vince, who operate an advice and assistance service for fellow students, face new dangers when a strict administrator is hired to clean up the school and a strange and dangerous girl asks for their help to have a teacher fired.
5) Crunch
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Author
Series
Fourth stall volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
7) The takeout
Author
Language
English
Description
Mila may have moved to Coral Beach months ago, but it still doesn't feel like home. She wants to belong, but a few awkward incidents with her new friends make her wonder if she'll ever neatly fit into the super-samey small town. Mila feels the only place she can be herself is at her dad's Filipino-Indian food truck, The Banana Leaf. But when celebrity chef twins the Fab Foodie Brothers open a restaurant nearby, it turns out the food they are serving...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her family runs a Jewish funeral home. At twelve, Evie already knows she’s going to be a funeral director when she grows up. So what if the kids at school call her “corpse girl” and say she smells like death? They’re just mean and don’t get how important it is to have someone take care of things when your world is falling apart. Evie loves dusting...
Author
Series
Letterford mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a serious mystery on her hands. Will she discover the link between her family's literary legacy and Shakespeare's tomb before it's too late?"--
12) The voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Stax Stonecutter has lived a peaceful--if unremarkable--life in his small town in the Overworld. He prefers leisure to work, choosing to tend to his gardens and play with his cats all day rather than expand his family's mining business. But when a mysterious stranger arrives, he takes everything from Stax, stranding him in the middle of nowhere and with nothing to his name. Now, Stax must learn not only how to survive, but how to live"--
Author
Series
Willis Wilbur volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Willis Wilbur has the entire summer in front of him. So it's time to fulfill his destiny: becoming the neighborhood life coach."--Amazon.
14) Lawn boy
Author
Language
English
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Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
Author
Series
Flinkwater chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.
Author
Series
Zara's rules volume 2
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2022.
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.
18) So Jelly!
Author
Series
Donut dreams volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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
Girl of the year. 2015: Grace volume 2
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 2
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
American girl
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 2
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
American girl
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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.
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