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Author
Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
For many years, Monday through Friday, Miss Anderson has walked to Parkland School, eager to begin her day's work in her classroom. She is a devoted teacher, beloved by the many children she has taught over the years. The school and her students mean everything to her. After one holiday weekend, Parkland School suffers a devastating flood. Burst pipes send water pouring into classrooms and the library. The school must close for repairs. But it's not...
Author
Series
Ready Freddy! volume 9
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Get to know Freddy Thresher, the first grade shark expert with an uncanny knack for mischief. Join Freddy in this adventure as he schemes and scrimps, trying to earn enough money to buy an awesome fossilized shark tooth. Packed with humor, illustrations, and even factual information about sharks, the Ready, Freddy!
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
420L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (79 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Monica takes riding lessons in Rock Creek, but she attends rival Pine Tree school. Monica wants to go to a dance at Rock Creek to help raise funds for Wild and Abandoned Horses, but she's not sure her Pine Tree friends will approve.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their earlier book, Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and showcased individuals and institutions working to address oppression and expand opportunity. A Path Appears is even more ambitious in scale: a sweeping tapestry of people who are making the world a better place and a guide to the ways that we can do the same -- whether with a donation...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom-again-for her son's fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants"--
Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas--fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters--is used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class mom ever...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (33 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When funding takes a cut, a new student creates a plan to save the school's lunch program. A candy drive! Gabby and her pet monster, Dwight, like the idea until the new kid starts racking up sales with help from his own beastly best friend. Dwight will have to pick up the pace, or raise the price of lollipops, if he's going to become a Monster Moneymaker.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delaney has always wanted a dog, and volunteering at a local animal shelter seems like a step in the right direction--especially when her friends Maren, Ashley, and Willow get involved with organizing a fund-raiser fashion show for pet adoption.
13) The muppets
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter and his friends, Gary and Mary, try to raise ten million dollars to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman, a business man who wants to demolish the theater in order to drill for oil.
14) Dance Fever
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When bossy Annelise insists on making the school fundraiser a stuffy formal dance, the rest of the committee worries that the boys won't go and the fundraiser will be a flop. Victoria Torres suggests they trade tiaras for cowboy hats and make the dance a Wild West theme. Annelise finally agrees but on one condition: they make it a Sadie Hawkins dance where the girls ask the boys. Will Victoria find the nerve to ask her crush Drew to the dance, or...
15) Lunch money
Author
Lexile measure
840L
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.
16) Fashion queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the beautiful dresses at the Academy Awards show, Kylie Jean decides to try her hand at fashion--and Lilly recruits her to model the dress she is making for a school fund raising auction.
Author
Series
Nantucket volume 1
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new relationship.
Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it alland in the eyes of her friends, she has it:...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
25th anniversary ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min. ; 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Jake Blues is released from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big...
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 9
Publisher
Harper/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014, c2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alexia's mom, Ms. Sue, leads the kids of Ella Mentry School in the weirdest fundraiser in the history of the world!"--
20) The ask
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of Home Land and Venus Drive comes Sam Lipsyte'ssearing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel, The Ask.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one...