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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 7
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stink and his friends try to earn money to buy the latest book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series and go to the book release party.
5) Lunch money
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
7) The pet war
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Otto wants a dog, and his older sister Lexi wants a cat, so their mother suggests that whoever can raise enough money to pay for their pet can choose--and so the competition begins.
9) Girls rule!
Author
Series
Hatfords and Malloys volume 10
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Malloy girls and the Hatford boys try to outdo each other in a quest to earn money and choose how to participate in the annual Buckman, West Virginia, Strawberry Festival.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Charlotte is not a dog person but does not like that the rest of her family neglects their Saint Bernard puppy, and so with a lot of determination and a little sneakiness, she works on finding a good home for the gentle giant.
11) Rare beasts
Author
Series
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The sinister siblings, twins Edgar and Ellen, kidnap the pets of Nod's Limb's youngest citizens and turn them into "rare beasts" in hopes of making money to finance future pranks.
12) Little Shaq
Author
Series
Little Shaq volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Shaquille O'Neal, a talented basketball and video game player, learns to share the spotlight with his cousin Barry when the youngsters work together to earn money by watering plants.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy sets up a fabulous fashion boutique to earn money to buy herself a beautiful fuschia fan, and the items she was selling come in handy when her sister's birthday party goes awry.
16) Meltdown madness
Author
Series
Looniverse volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In order to earn money for new bicycles, nine-year-old cousins Keats and Henry take a job at a very strange house where doors disappear, carpets bite, and a zombie shark comes after them.
18) The stand-in
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
After seventeen-year-old Brooks Rattigan agrees to be a stand-in Homecoming date for a friend's geeky but wealthy cousin, he realizes becoming a (completely platonic) rent-a-date for the socially awkward could help him earn college money.
Author
Series
Clara Humble volume 3
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Clara and her friend Bradley find a family of kittens while treasure-hunting, they do everything they can to protect the kittens, including an internet video, while trying to convince their parents to take them inches.
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