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Author
Series
Girl of the year volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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.
3) The takeout
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
118 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First paperback edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
375, 13 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father goes to jail, Cady Bennett, twelve, is taken from foster care to spend a summer with her estranged Aunt Michelle, trying to save her failing pie shop.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Grace is crushed to learn that her grandparents' bakery might close after thirty years and wonders how her own business, which they inspired, can survive if theirs cannot, but she and her friends use their talents and newly-acquired business skills to try to save the day.
8) Moving up
Author
Series
High hurdles volume 7
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
157 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
DJ wonders how she will balance her booming note card business, an art weekend in San Francisco, and her family's upcoming move, and still have time for Major.
9) Letting go
Author
Series
High hurdles volume 8
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When almost overwhelmed with activities for the summer including horse shows, art classes, and a greeting card business, DJ talks with her Gran and learns to trust God.
10) Thunder valley
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
70 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jeremy and Jason are left to run the family skiing business, strange things begin to happen, starting with a fire in the snowmobile garage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wanderer Books
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
179 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese business tycoon mysteriously disappears and, soon after, a rare samurai sword is stolen from an art gallery. Suspecting a connection, the Hardy boys try to solve the mystery.
12) Grace
Author
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Libby becomes friends with a boy she meets while walking her dog, but when she learns that his family owns the new store competing with her family's candy shop, she tries to keep the family business a secret.
14) Eager Star
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale Kids
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
181 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Winnie starts a horse training business in Ashland, Ohio, one of her first clients is Eager Star, who belongs to Grant, the most popular boy in school, and she needs her Christian faith to help both.
Author
Series
Penderwicks volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business. But her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
16) Cress Watercress
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
294 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure, Inc." challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.
18) Nancy Drew
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
127 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accompanying her father to Los Angeles on business, Nancy learns about a long-unsolved murder of a beautiful movie star and uses her sleuthing skills and the help of her new friends to investigate old clues to crack the case.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 4
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Alexis Becker loves to organize and plan and set goals, which is why she is in charge of the business end of the Cupcake Club. But when she suddenly develops a major crush on Matt Taylor - who happens to be Emma's brother - things get a little disorganized.