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Lawn Boy Lawn Boy Gary Paulsen,Gary Paulsen,Tom Parks required for 7th graders Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business. OL14850152W
Dream Factory Dream Factory Heather Hepler When the character actors at Disney World go on strike, the teens hired as replacements learn that it isn't exactly the Happiest Place on Earth. Ella gets to be Cinderella, simply because the shoe fi… OL14937572W
Acceleration Acceleration Graham McNamee It's a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority's Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the … OL14958026W
Kid power Kid power Susan Beth Pfeffer Eleven-year-old Janie advertises to do odd jobs in her neighborhood and receives so much business, she hires her friends and becomes manager of the Kid Power Agency. OL15144201W
Krista and the frosty packages Krista and the frosty packages Helen Diehl Olds Krista, an Estonian immigrant to America, wants a job. All her family and friends have one. Chasing after her naughty dog helps her find one. OL15214533W
The Berenstain Bears reap the harvest The Berenstain Bears reap the harvest Stan Berenstain To keep busy during the summer, Brother and Sister Bear go to work for Farmer Ben, who promises to pay them what he earns for one corner of his corn crop at the end of the season. OL15414053W
Getting over Garrett Delaney Getting over Garrett Delaney Abby McDonald Seventeen-year-old Sadie Allen has spent the last two years pining for her best friend, Garrett, but when he heads off to literary camp for the summer without her, she decides to kick her unrequited … OL15991386W
Alice on board Alice on board Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Seeking one last adventure before going off to college, Alice and her friends find summer employment on a Chesapeake Bay cruise ship. OL16607084W
Dream factory Dream factory Brad Barkley Alternating chapters present the view points of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falling in love. OL17732536W
Jacky Ha-Ha is a Joke Jacky Ha-Ha is a Joke James Patterson Jacky Ha-Ha Hart is the laughingstock of her family, until she gets to star in a Midfommer Night's Dream. How does it end? Will you find out. OL17844202W
Rules of summer Rules of summer Joanna Philbin Spending the summer working as an errand girl for the Rule family in the Hamptons, seventeen-year-old Rory befriends the family's teenaged daughter and develops feelings for their older son, but she … OL17870988W
Cabin girl Cabin girl Kristin Butcher At her first job at a fly-in fishing lodge, sixteen-year-old Bailey learns about workplace bullying. OL17875753W
My faire lady My faire lady Laura Wettersten After breaking up with her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Rowena takes an out-of-town summer job at a Renaissance fair, but romantic entanglements soon follow. OL17882012W
Rusty Timmons' first million Rusty Timmons' first million Joan Davenport Carris Hoping that his awesome moneymaking scheme, a summer youth employment service, will help win back his old friend Dan, seventh-grader Rusty finds instead that it leads to an unexpected new friendship … OL1814281W
Saving the planet & stuff Saving the planet & stuff Gail Gauthier After losing his summer job with his uncle, sixteen-year-old Michael agrees to go to work for an environmentalist magazine in Vermont run by friends of his grandparents. OL1931408W
Marsh Township Sanitary District Marsh Township Sanitary District John Kevin Scariano John Scariano's memories of the first summer in which he had a job at the Marsh Township Sanitary District in Chicago Heights. OL19705646W
The lake effect The lake effect Erin McCahan "The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the m… OL19713503W
My life is a joke My life is a joke Chris Grabenstein,James Patterson,Kerascoët,Kerascoet Kerascoet "Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"-- OL19721051W
Stay sweet Stay sweet Siobhan Vivian Summer in Sand Lake isn t complete without a trip to Meade Creamery the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started making ice cream to cheer up her lovesick girlfriends while al… OL19740602W
Holly Jolly summer Holly Jolly summer Tiffany Stewart In Christmas, Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Darby Peacher stumbles her way into a job at the town's run-down holiday-themed amusement park, Holly Jolly Land, but her summer quickly goes from merry to mi… OL19748575W
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