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Author
Series
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his father's suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him-- and trying to replicate his late father's famous cornbread recipe. When Will learns his friend Playa was raped at a party, he believes he could have stopped the worst from happening if he hadn't left early, he's determined do some good in the world. Will acts of kindness help Will push past his own trauma and truly begin to live his life again?...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"After moving to Sacramento to take over his grandparent's Filipino market, sixth-grader Alex seeks popularity by selling homemade slime at school, while his father insists he join a soccer team."--
7) Daddy depot
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about a girl who imagines a megastore where she can exchange her dad for a new one"--
10) Pet shop follies
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
No one is coming into the pet shop, so the animals, from the smallest hamster to the biggest dog, put on a show to attract customers.
11) Stanley's store
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
During a busy day at the grocery store, Stanley uses a fork lift to remove fruits and vegetables from a truck, makes a display, and helps customers.
16) MARTians
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future consumer dystopia, Zoë Zindleman must choose from limited, bleak housing options, including a converted strip-mall refuge that offers safety and proximity to her new place of work, ALLMART." --
17) But no candy
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
While her Uncle Ted is off fighting in World War II, Lee watches the candy gradually disappear from the shelves of her family's store and realizes that her entire world has changed.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to explore a store that provides everything a privateer, mutineer, or buccaneer might want in the way of high-quality pirate gear, from clothing to classes in smuggling molasses.