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Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.

Kid Power hits a slump when school begins but the coming winter gives twelve-year-old Janie new ideas on how to revive business.

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.

After putting together some of the best parties of the summer, the girls of RSVP are hired to plan an important wedding but a hurricane threatens to ruin everything.

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.

Twelve-year-old Pearl Li tries to gain her family's acceptance and save her favorite boba tea shop by selling her crocheted amigurumi dolls. Pearl Li is ready to spend the summer before seventh grade hanging out with her two best friends, crocheting the cutest amigurumi dolls, and visiting her favorite tea shop, Boba Time. Its quirky owner, Auntie Cha, is the only adult Pearl can confide in about her art, if only her tech-obsessed family would understand...

Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.

Discovering that a treasure has been bequeathed to her family, Colophon Letterford explores clues hidden in antique paintings, secret passages, and a locked mausoleum to discover a link between her family's legacy and William Shakespeare.

The best babysitters are psyched to land their highest paying job yet - until they get to the house and realise they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, the meanest girl in school. And even though Zelda should be the one who's embarrassed that three girls her age are babysitting her, she finds ways to thwart them at every turn. But Zelda isn't the girls' only challenge. A new crop of French au pairs are stealing all their business - Quelle catastrophe! -...

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.