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Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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.
4) Lawn boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan--there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, here is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: how Tim went from $40,000...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charity Curtis 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 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...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Too often, women hesitate to take career risks due to systemic workplace inequity. This book teaches women how to take the right risks for lasting career success. Many women enter the workforce feeling like they can never make a mistake, and as a result,they don't take risks in the crucial early stages of their careers. Women, and BIPOC women especially, are disproportionally penalized for mistakes, so any risk begins to feel like a bad risk. A 2019...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the world looks to rebuild in an uncertain future, we cannot continue to let women of color fall behind. Prep, Push, Pivot provides an indispensable career coaching guide for underrepresented women. Whether you're looking for a new job, dealing with losing one, pivoting into something new, or returning from time out of the workforce, Prep, Push, Pivot delivers strategies to help you advance when you need it the most. Part One is focused on preparation....
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Autism is associated with many qualities that are highly sought after by employers such as reliability, persistence, attention to detail, creativity in problem solving and many others. The key to success in the workplace is understanding these strengthsand identifying the support you need to help you flourish. This self-guided workbook provides advice, strategies and activities to manage the difficulties that can arise at work. You will be given...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A totally captivating, hilarious, and clever look on the magical kingdom of Manhattan, where kissing frogs has never been this fun.”—Melissa de la Cruz, author of The Au Pairs
Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid she’s...
Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid she’s...
15) Ivy Takes Care
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a heart- and humor-filled adventure by On the Blue Comet author Rosemary Wells, a girl spends a summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest. Brokenhearted after her best friend leaves for the entire summer, Ivy rallies and finds herself something new and exciting to do: she hires herself out to look after people's farm animals and pets while they're away. So begins a summer of discovery and definition for tenderhearted but sensible
...Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zoe and her cousin Jess eagerly start summer jobs at New Jersey's Fairyland theme park, but Jess does not get her dream role and Zoe is assigned to be personal assistant to the park's "Queen," winning her no friends.
Author
Series
Rules of summer volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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 finds that societal rules can be hard to break.
18) The richer sex: how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. Journalist Liza Mundy takes us to the frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume the responsibility of primary earner and who gets the...
19) Ki & Ka
Publisher
Eros International Media
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Language
Hindi
Description
Kia is an ambitious career woman in New Delhi who doesn't want marriage to come in the way of her dream. Kabir prefers to stay away from the stress of a working professional. The foundation stone of their relationship is laid on this arrangement.
20) Hot dog girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lovesick teenager schemes to win the heart of her crush at her amusement park summer job, all while dressed as a hot dog.
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