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Series
Lemonade war volume 1
Lexile Measure
630L
Summary
Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, 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
Nancy Clancy chapter book volume 7
Lexile Measure
600L
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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.
Author
Lexile Measure
640L
Summary
Summer vacation in their small Maine town does not look too promising until twelve-year-old Gina and four of her friends make a pact to become millionaires before school starts in September. I'm just lying out there in the backyard one night, staring up at the sky. Then suddenly a dollar bill lands on my face. I pick it up. It looks real. I have no idea where it came from. Then another one falls. And another. I look up and see bills fluttering down...
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Penderwicks volume 4
Lexile Measure
880L
Summary
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbour 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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Annabelle unleashed volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Summary
"A huge music festival coming to town, and sixth-grader Annabelle and her friends can't wait to rock out...that is if they can come up with enough cash to buy the expensive tickets"--
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
780L
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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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Series
Amelia Bedelia chapter books volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile Measure
640L
Summary
"Young Amelia Bedelia will do almost anything for a shiny new bicycle. Her parents say they'll split the cost with her, and that means Amelia Bedelia needs to put the pedal to the metal and earn some dough! With Amelia Bedelia anything can happen, and it usually does"--
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Series
My Weirdest School volume .8
Summary
"A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentery School start a company to sell their brand new invention-a heated, scented, talking toilet seat!"--
Author
Series
Best Babysitters ever volume 2
Lexile Measure
720L
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Summary
Just when Malia, Dot, and Bree corner the Playa Del Mar babysitting market, their lives get even busier and Malia comes up with a plan to outsource their babysitting jobs.
12) Full of Beans
Author
Lexile Measure
490L
Summary
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.
13) The extincts
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile Measure
600L
Summary
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.
Author
Lexile Measure
720L
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Summary
When sixth-grader Jeremy Bender damages his father's prized boat and needs to come up with a lot of money to get it repaired, he and his best friend dress up as girls and infiltrate the Cupcake Cadet troop in an attempt to win the Windjammer Whirl model sailboat contest, and the prize money that comes with it.
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Series
Farah rocks volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile Measure
610L
Summary
Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
19) Miss Impossible
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Series
Best Babysitters ever volume 3
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Summary
Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to land their highest paying job yet--until they get to the house and realize they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, Bree and Malia's archnemesis since preschool. Babysitting: not just for babies, apparently. And it's too much money to walk away from...so at least there are no diapers? But all of the babysitting in the world couldn't prepare the girls for their unusual new charge, and even though Zelda should be the one...
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Series
Violet Mackerel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Lexile Measure
960L
Summary
When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.