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Yankovic, Al

Summary: An exuberant eight-year-old details for his teacher and classmates the astonishing variety of inventive careers he is thinking of pursuing when he grows up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC YAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yankovic 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YAN

Ekster, Carol Gordon

Summary: Athena thinks that her father, who drives a truck, has the most amazing job in the world, but she is having trouble convincing her classmates--until she comes up with a plan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EKS

Downing, Julie

Summary: When children are fast asleep, some people are hard at work keeping the city safe and clean, and when daylight comes they go home to sleep.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOW

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOW

Faber, Polly

Summary: "The sky is getting dark. In the city, a little girl is eating her dinner, brushing her teeth, and getting ready for bed. Meanwhile, her mother is putting on her coat and getting ready to go to work. Where is she going and who will she see along the way? As the night goes on, readers will see nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, journalists, and many other workers who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FAB

Baker, Keith

Summary: Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Bak

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BAK

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE BAK

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BAK

Birney, Betty G.

Summary: "The students of Room 26 are doing reports about the jobs they want to have when they grow up--and Humphrey the classroom pet hamster helps aspiring magician Miranda show the class about her own dream job"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BIR

Garton, Sam

Summary: "Otter tries to find a job for Teddy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GAR

Stark, Andrew

Summary: It is career day in Liam's third-grade class on the Ojibwa reservation, but Liam is having trouble deciding what he wants to do when he grows up, and he is not sure what to put in the essay he has to write.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE STA

Easton, Marilyn

Summary: One day at playgroup, Peppa Pig and her friends play dress up and imagine what they would like to be when they grow up. Emily Elephant would like to be a teacher, Freddy Fox wants to be a police officer, and Suzy Sheep might be a doctor. But what about Peppa? She isn't sure what she wants to be--but she does know her favorite thing in the whole world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE PEP

Park, Barbara.

Summary: Junie B. Jones and the stupid smelly bus: In her own words, a young girl describes her feelings about starting kindergarten and what she does when she decides not to ride the bus home.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Listening Library 2002

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Hische, Jessica

Summary: During the annual Find Yourself Field Trip at Ms. Bracket's School for Little Letters, U discovers all the different ways letters are used in the world and contemplates what she will be when she grows up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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Summary: It is Career Day at Peppa's school and people from all around town are visiting her class to talk about their jobs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2018

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McDonagh, Caitlin

Summary: Children dress up and imagine what they could be when they grow up--from astronaut to dentist to mathematician to Zumba instructor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018

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Loney, Andrea J.

Summary: On Career Day, third-grader Abby Baxter is unsure of what she wants to do when she grows up, and when she accidentally makes a mistake that causes the space station's systems to go haywire, Abby must untangle the mess.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LON

Park, Barbara.

Summary: When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 Par

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR SPANISH PAR

Parish, Herman

Summary: "Amelia Bedelia and her friends at school explore different jobs and careers and think about what they want to be when they grow up! Amelia Bedelia is especially curious about her own father's line of work. If he spends the day pitching to a client, does that mean he plays a lot of baseball?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PAR

Lymon, Bria

Summary: "Young children can join Malibu and Brooklyn as they care for horses and learn to ride in one story, and then flip the book over to follow the girls as they learn about all the adorable animals on a farm"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LYM

Lymon, Bria

Summary: You can be a teacher: Malibu and Brooklyn help teach children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Mance, Ajuan Maria

Summary: "A picture book with illustrated portraits of real Black men celebrating the daily lives and activities of African Americans, from visiting the barber shop to exploring outer space"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAN

Curry, Parker

Summary: While playing dress-up, Parker and her siblings imagine endless possibilities for future careers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CUR

Painter, Lynn

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: When they first meet, Bailey and Charlie cannot stand one another, but when they met a year later as coworkers, Charlie secretly bets a colleague he can get Bailey to go out with him, and their relationship gets more complicated as they get closer and closer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023

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Baker, Keith

Summary: Busy little peas introduce more of their favorite occupations and activities, from actor to zipper on a zip line.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BAK

Chen, Julie

Summary: When a young boy imagines what he might be and do one day, his mother assures him that he can be anything, and she will always be there for him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHE

Spinelli, Jerry.

Summary: A little boy ponders the many possible jobs in his future, from paper-plane folder and puppy-dog holder to mixing-bowl licker and tin-can kicker.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Spinelli 2010

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