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Summary: Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, 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 one hundred dollars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 CAM SPANISHCala, Caroline
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "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." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCala, Caroline
Summary: Malia, Dot, and Bree get a much older--and scarier--client than they expected, but looks can be deceiving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALLee, Lyla
Summary: "Determined to go to an elite art camp, young Korean American girl Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money, but when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end up sacrificing more than she bargained for to achieve her dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEEYang, Kelly
Summary: When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move, and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC YANYang, Kelly
Summary: Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANRussell, Rachel Renee.
Summary: When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
2 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUSTorres, Jennifer
Summary: After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TORKochar, Amandeep S.
Summary: The tenant of Dasvandh is played out through a dueling lemonade-stand story (Jeet, Fudge, Jamal and Tugboat versus two sisters, new to town). Jeet and Fudge set up a very popular lemonade stand in the green space next to the loving library/animal shelter while their mom volunteers at the park clean-up. Their friend, Jamal and his puppy Tugboat is also there with their mom and decide to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KOCFairbairn, Nathan
Summary: "Meet best friends Gabby Jordan, Priya Gupta, and Mindy Kim. They're different in just about every way -- personalities, hobbies, family, and more -- but they have a few important things in common: they're all in the same class, they absolutely love animals, and for reasons that are as varied as the trio themselves none of them can actually have any pets. Unable to resist the adorable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Paws FairbairnBarrows, Annie.
Summary: Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BARChen, Nicole
Summary: Pearl Li is ready to spend the summer before seventh grade hanging out with her two best friends, crocheting the cutest amigurumi dolls, and visiting her favorite tea shop, Boba Time. Its quirky owner, Auntie Cha, is the only adult Pearl can confide in about her art--if only her tech-obsessed family would understand her love of crafts! After Pearl learns of Boba Time's financial troubles, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHEElliott, Rebecca
Summary: Macy's little sister has wings that are too small, so Eva's class decides to raise money to buy her a flying chair, and half the class opens a bakery, and the other half opens a candy store--but soon competition between the two stores becomes more important than their goal, and Eva needs to convince the other owls that they will collect more money if everyone works as a team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ELLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Owl ElliottCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ELLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ELLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE ELL Book 7Green, D. L. (Debra L.)
Summary: Zeke's school is having a fund-raiser and the student who sell the most cake mix will get four tickets to Thrillsville Amusement Park, but Zeke is not having much luck until his great-grandmother gives him a lesson in salesmanship--and he takes his little sister with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GREBarrows, Annie.
Summary: Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Ivy BarrowsMiller, Kalena
Summary: The unforgettable tale of a girl, her maybe-criminal mom, her babysitting business, and her pet pineapple.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2024
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Perez is a very professional and well organized babysitter, but suddenly she finds herself in competition with a boy and the only thing she knows about him is that his nickname is Doc, he lets the kids he is babysitting run wild, and he is probably in her class--and that is only the beginning, as the stress causes her to quarrel with both her best friend, Piper, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BABAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie and Myron invent a machine that can collect golf balls from the bottom of their local course's pond scum, but they discover a friendly creature lurking beneath the water.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLBerenstain, Mike
Summary: After enjoying their mother's lemonade, Brother, Sister and Honey Bear decide to start up a lemonade stand to sell it to the neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR GREEN BERNuurali, Siman
Summary: In order to earn enough money to buy a birthday gift for his mother Sadiq, his siblings, and his friends start a cookie delivery business, but baking and delivering cookies proves to be more complicated (and messy) than they expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie decides to trap the tooth fairy to earn money to build a burglar alarm trap.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLO'Connor, Jane
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction OCOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OCODeriso, Christine Hurley
Summary: To thirteen-year-old Elisabeth Caldwell, babysitting for a neighbor's little boys sounds like an easy way to earn some money for shopping, and her grandmother is full of sensible advice--trouble is her mind is more on a boy on the school tennis team and the difficulty she is having making a good impression on him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016