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61) The Babe & I
Author
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
62) Meltdown madness
Author
Series
Looniverse volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted. He must find another way to raise money--and fast! Ed uses his new found ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go awry and Ed ends up needing money for the soccer team, his friend Mouse, AND two new windows! With surreal and funny antics throughout, the second book in this heavily illustrated early chapter book series is sure to keep kids...
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 2
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
68) The bark park
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Press, an imprint of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Lila and her friends are troubled when they discover the dog park does not have a bench for eighty-year-old Mr. Romero to use, so they decide to start a dog-wash to raise money for one, and learn about percentages along the way.
Author
Series
Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to-- volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When his weekly allowance just isn't cutting it anymore, lovable slacker Charlie Joe devises ways to make more money--and fast"--
70) Summer business
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1990, c1984
Language
English
Description
By running small businesses catering to the summer visitors to their island home, Heather and her friends earn enough money for a trip to the Harvest Fair on the mainland.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In early 1980s New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 8
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry School! Alexia's grandmother Mrs. Master makes weird inventions for a living, but A.J. and the gang come up with the weirdest invention of all. And they're going to make a bazillion dollars from it! Will they succeed? Or will their great big idea be flushed down the drain?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Explains ways kids can earn money; how to save for a big purchase; how to get the most value for your money; how the stock market works; plus money moments such as did you know that a stamp that cost 5 cents in 1947 was sold for a million dollars in 1981?
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
To thirteen-year-old Elisabeth Caldwell, babysitting for a neighbor's little boys sounds like an easy way to earn some money for shopping, and her grandmother is full of sensible advice--trouble is her mind is more on a boy on the school tennis team and the difficulty she is having making a good impression on him.
80) Dirt cheap
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Birdie wants a very expensive soccer ball but has no money, so she starts selling dirt and learns some important lessons along the way.