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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.
4) Lunch money
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) The Babe & I
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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.--
11) Give a goat
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After hearing a story about a girl in Uganda whose life is changed for the better by the gift of a goat, a class of fifth-graders pulls together to raise funds to make a similar donation to someone in need.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chandra and her sister Deena see a demonstration of a "magic light," a solar-powered lantern, at a market near their home in Nepal and are determined to buy one, knowing it will help their little brother's cough to stop using kerosene lamps. Includes facts about Nepal.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her supposed best friend implicates her in a cheating and blackmail scam, twelve-year-old Bernie loses her private school scholarship but, with the help of a new friend, spends the summer using her knowledge of magic and sleight-of-hand both to earn the $9,000 in tuition money and to get revenge.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Caterina, a little brown bird who loves to make lists, plans to earn money by selling lemonade, but when others have the same idea, Caterina must find a way to make her stand eye-catching.
18) Lemonade stand
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two animal friends plan to make money at their lemonade stand, but find that selling can be thirsty work.
19) Money troubles
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
While trying to raise enough money for a telescope, Little Bill makes a discovery about generosity and the needs of others.
20) Yikes! Bikes!
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Freddy and his classmates are going to participate in a Bike-a-Thon to help raise money for a local animal shelter, and Freddy needs to learn how to ride a two-wheeler.
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