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Amelia Bedelia (Chapter books) volume 1
Language
English
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"It's the holiday season, and Amelia Bedelia doesn't have enough money to buy presents for anyone. Along with her friends, she decides to launch a gift-wrapping business in order to make some extra cash. But wrapping presents with Amelia Bedelia is far from ordinary! And when the business expands to include tree decorating, popcorn popping, snow shoveling, and carol singing, you can bet that the misunderstandings are many!"--
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Series
Lemonade war series volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
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Series
Lulu (Judith Viorst) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Lulu needs help from a boy named Fleischman if she is to earn money walking her neighbors' dogs, and she finds out that if she wants her business venture to succeed, she has to be nice.
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Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
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Series
Nancy Clancy volume 7
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Phineas L. MacGuire volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to earn money to attend Space Camp, fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire gets a job as a dog walker, then enlists the aid of his friends Ben and Aretha to help with experiments using the dog's "slobber."
Author
Series
Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to-- volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"When his weekly allowance just isn't cutting it anymore, lovable slacker Charlie Joe devises ways to make more money--and fast"--
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Series
Best babysitters ever volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Mayhem ensues in their 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.
13) Meltdown madness
Author
Series
Looniverse volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Ed found the magic coin called Silver Center, strange things keep happening around him, but maybe if he finds the right words he can use the magic to raise money for the soccer team.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old John "Houdini" Smith tries to write a book about what is happening in his life, from his parents' worries about money and his brother in Iraq, to his new understandings of people while he and his friends rake lawns in their East Side Providence, Rhode Island neighborhood.
17) The extincts
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English
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Description
In order to raise money for a new bicycle, George takes a job at Wormestall Farm, where he encounters creatures supposedly extinct or mythological, a new--female--friend, and a maniacal taxidermist who wants the animals for her own private collection.
19) Grace for Gus
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Knowing that her classroom pet Gus is lonely, Grace sets off to share her many talents with people in order to earn enough money to get Gus a friend.
20) Full of Beans
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Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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