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1) Lawn boy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.
5) Kid power
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1977]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 7
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 580L
Language
English
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Description
Accompanying the Pike family during a two-week vacation to the Jersey Shore, baby-sitter Stacey falls head over heels for a handsome lifeguard despite Mary Anne's warning that he is too old for her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Forced by her father to get a summer job, seventeen-year-old Candace makes the most of selling cotton candy in an amusement park, despite a botched nametag, vindictive co-workers, lewd patrons, and growing distant from her best friend.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Betsy knows that her summer job at a colonial village will ruin whatever chance she has of ever being popular, but when her mother dies, the job becomes her escape, and being with James, a surfer who also works there, is the only thing that makes Betsy feel normal.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Nantucket red
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Before starting college, Cricket Thompson returns to Nantucket for a summer filled with hard choices and infinite possibility"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Charity has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But on the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly...
12) Temping fate
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After landing a summer job with the Divine Relief Temp Agency, teenaged Ilana finds herself substituting for the Greek mythological goddesses, the Fates, who spin, measure, and cut the life-threads of every human being.
13) Contigo, siempre
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Louna ha pasado sus años de escuela secundaria trabajando en el exitoso negocio de planificación de bodas de su madre. Ha visto todo tipo de bodas: grandes y lujosas, pequeñas e íntimas, en el campo o en la playa. Ella se ha enfrentado a todas las crisis que pueden afectar a una boda, así como a las damas de honor que le roban el protagonismo a las novias, los novios controladores, madres de novias mandonas e incluso la ocasional novia que...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a soccer injury that ended her Olympic dreams and still grieving the death of her beloved grandmother, seventeen-year-old Hannah Klein must navigate a new summer job working with her ex-best friend, her younger brother, and her brother's suddenly-attractive best friend.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Michael Racine lives in a world of highly successful and accomplished teenagers. Unfortunately, he isn't one of them. He knows it, and he's afraid everyone else does too. So when he gets the chance to intern at a magazine run by friends of his grandparents, he jumps at it. The...
17) Alice on board
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Seeking one last adventure before going off to college, Alice and her friends find summer employment on a Chesapeake Bay cruise ship.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Emmie has had a crush on her best friend's brother, Deacon, for years and although he is the town bad boy she is sure he is innocent of a violent assult on his father except for one thing--his own sister believes Deacon is guilty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"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"--