Charaipotra, Sona
Summary: "She may be a California farm girl, but seventeen-year-old Maya's vision board is all about Fashion and Fierce--the New York City women's magazine she's been reading since she was ten. As the oldest daughter of Punjabi garlic farmers, though, Maya's path is set, and it's off to Cow camp for the summer. When she lands in the New York City area, Maya learns that her cousin's girlfriend works at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHAFaber, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FABPark, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Listening Library 2002
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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BIRGarton, Sam
Summary: "Otter tries to find a job for Teddy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GARSummary: It is Career Day at Peppa's school and people from all around town are visiting her class to talk about their jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2018
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Summary: While playing dress-up, Parker and her siblings imagine endless possibilities for future careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YANHische, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE HISEkster, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EKSLymon, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: Three fierce women connected to a billionaire film mogul collide at a Hollywood party in this richly observed novel about female ambition, complicity, and privilege. Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARPainter, Lynn
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023
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Summary: You can be a teacher: Malibu and Brooklyn help teach children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR SPANISH PARStark, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE STABarrows, Annie
Summary: After meeting Herman the Treasure Hunter during a career fair at Emerson School, every second-grader is looking for treasure and finding it--except for Ivy and Bean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LONEaston, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2018
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Summary: Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2010
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE BAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BAKChen, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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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?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PARFloca, Brian
Summary: "An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the Covid-19 pandemic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021