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1) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
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
Piper Reed volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When she discovers the price of the coveted clubhouse, ten-year-old Piper and her fellow Gypsy Club members try to earn the money by creating a birthday-party-planning business.
3) Flat broke
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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.
4) Crunch
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
The oldest Marriss 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
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein. Includes author's note.
6) Shake it off
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Stuck on her aunt and uncle's dairy farm for the summer, Bria begins crafting elaborate milkshakes at the creamery, which catch the eye of her cousins' cute friend, Gabe.
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After their disastrous summer in Taipei, Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh must come together once more to help each other pursue the futures they want.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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 girl asks for their help to have a teacher fired.
12) Monsoon summer
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.
Author
Series
Nightmare thief volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Maren breaks the strict rules of her family's dream shop to help her comatose sister, she is caught and blackmailed by a woman with evil plans for the town of Rockpool Bay.
14) Lawn Boy returns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs--in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt's struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan's stomach do backflips. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons. In Theo's glittering...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
20) Framed
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Dylan and his sisters consider turning to crime when strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings and their father disappears.
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