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Son of Interflux
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Gordon Korman |
Even though his father is Senior Executive Vice President of Interflux, Simon leads his high school classmates in thwarting the giant corporation's plan to build a new complex and take over some city… |
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Truth without the trimmings
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Diane Muldrow |
The holidays are here, and the girls have never been busier. With school, volunteering, parties, and more orders for dish than they've ever had before, the girls are swamped. Things get more complica… |
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Once upon a company
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Wendy Anderson Halperin |
Tells how a seven-year-old boy and his sisters started a wreath-making business which, over the course of six years, grew to include other businesses, marketing, wholesaling, and investing, and nette… |
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Lemonade stand
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Marcia K. Vaughan |
When a bear named Boomer and his pal, Squeak the mouse, set out to make big bucks with their lemonade stand, they
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Boom Town
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Sonia Levitin |
After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--… |
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The storekeeper
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Tracey Campbell Pearson |
Follows the activities of a storekeeper from early morning when she opens her shop until it is time to go home. |
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Monkey business
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J.otto Seibold |
Space Monkey, an ex-astronaut turned business tycoon, discovers that his company's one millionth product has been inhabited by a bug named Penelope. |
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Melonhead and the We-Fix-It Company
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Katy Kelly |
In the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., eleven-year-old Adam "Melonhead" Melon and his best friend Sam try to stay out of trouble for a whole month to earn a fabulous reward.
In the Ca… |
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A peddler's dream
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Janice Jordan Shefelman |
A Lebanese man who comes to the United States to seek his fortune suffers several setbacks, but makes his dream come true. |
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The Toothpaste Millionaire
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Jean Merrill |
Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower didn't set out to be a millionaire--he only wanted to save money on toothpaste. After challenging himself to make a gallon of toothpaste for the same price as a single tu… |
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Captain Morgana Mason
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Dorothy Brenner Francis |
When Gramp falls ill one summer, thirteen-year-old Morgana and her younger brother take charge of Gramp's Key West sponging business so the family can stay together. |
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Piper Reed gets a job
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Kimberly Willis Holt |
When she discovers the price of the coveted clubhouse, ten-year-old Piper and her fellow Gypsy Club members try to earn the money by creating a birthday party planning business. |
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Going going
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Naomi Shihab Nye |
In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of chain stores. |
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The Teashop Girls
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Laura Schaefer |
Fourteen-year-old Annie, along with her two best friends, tries desperately to save her grandmother's beloved, old-fashioned teashop in Madison, Wisconsin, while she also learns to accept the inevita… |
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Framed
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Frank Cottrell Boyce |
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 wi… |
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