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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a serious mystery on her hands. Will she discover the link between her family's literary legacy and Shakespeare's tomb before it's too late?"--
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation.
Author
Series
Fourth stall volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.
Author
Series
Fourth stall volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Six-graders Mac and Vince, who operate an advice and assistance service for fellow students, face new dangers when a strict administrator is hired to clean up the school and a strange and dangerous girl asks for their help to have a teacher fired.
Author
Series
Fourth stall volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mac and Vince have gotten out of their middle school underworld crime business, but an upstart rival business and a run-in with an old nemesis pull them back in"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Determined to find a cure for his burping, George returns to Ernie's Ice Cream Emporium in search of a secret ingredient, but when a rival ice cream shop opens, George tries to keep Ernie's in business so he can solve his problem.
Author
Publisher
Prepared by the Bank Street College of Education, Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A young girl describes how her school friend made over a million dollars by creating and marketing a cheaper and better toothpaste.
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old P.T. Wilkie may be the greatest storyteller alive. But he knows one thing for a fact: the Wonderland Motel is the best place a kid could ever live! All-you-can-eat poolside ice cream! A snack machine in the living room! A frog slide! A giant rampaging alligator! (Okay, that last one may or may not be made up.) There's only one thing the Wonderland doesn't have, though -- customers. And if the Wonderland doesn't get them soon, P.T....
Author
Series
Willis Wilbur volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Willis Wilbur has the entire summer in front of him. So it's time to fulfill his destiny: becoming the neighborhood life coach."--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her grandparents' bakery and her recent visit to Paris, nine-year-old Grace leads her friends in starting La Petite Patisserie, making and selling French pastries at school and special events, but they soon discover that starting a new business is not always easy--or fun.
12) Miss Impossible
Author
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to land their highest paying job yet--until they get to the house and realize they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, Bree and Malia's archnemesis since preschool. Babysitting: not just for babies, apparently. And it's too much money to walk away from...so at least there are no diapers? But all of the babysitting in the world couldn't prepare the girls for their unusual new charge, and even though Zelda should be the one...
Author
Series
Agents of H.E.A.R.T volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young girl's wish to help out in her family's seaside café gets out of hand when she accidentally summons a rescue squad of fairytale princesses."--
14) Lawn Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Series
Zara's rules volume 2
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: January 2023 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
After Zara's bike goes missing, her parents insist on her earning money to pay for it, so she and her friend Naomi turn their red wagon into The Treasure Wagon and try and sell some old knickknacks found in her family's basement.
16) Crunch
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
♭2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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 inevitability of change in life. Includes proverbs, quotations, and brief stories about tea, as well as recipes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discovering that he has been exchanging emails with a corporate spy from a rival company, seventh-grade innovator Billy Sure and his best friend set a trap to catch the culprit before he reveals Sure Things, Inc.'s valuable secrets.
20) Framed
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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 with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
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