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Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia (Chapter books) volume 9
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Amelia Bedelia and her friends at school explore different jobs, Amelia's literal-mindedness causes some silly misunderstandings.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Annie has a career day at her school, each member of her family wonders if she will choose their career path--her grandfather the news photographer, her father the mountain climber or her mother the basketball player--until she reveals a dream that is all her own.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion, fixating on all the little ways she might change her life. Then she watches TV until she drops off to sleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it...
Author
Series
Abby in orbit volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Hardcover.
Language
English
Description
How can Abby Baxter prove she's not a Bad Baxter, but an Awesome Abby? On Career Day, Abby Baxter's classmates are excited to learn about all the jobs adults do on the space station. But Abby has no idea what her career should be―next to her brilliant doctor parents, she always feels like a Bad Baxter. Even worse, she makes a few mistakes that cause systems on the space station to start going haywire. Can Abby untangle the mess and find her own...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her lover is assassinated and her sibling is kidnapped by Imperial solders, Enitan, using her fledgling tea business as cover, moves undetected through the Vaalbaran capital where she will learn just how far she’ll go to exact vengeance, free her sibling and secure her homeland’s freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nigel looks up at the moon, his future is bright. He imagines himself as...an astronaut, a dancer, a superhero, too! Among the stars, he twirls. With pride, his chest swells. And his eyes, they glow. Nigel is the most brilliant body in the sky. But it's Career Week at school, and Nigel can't find the courage to share his dreams. It's easy to whisper them to the moon, but not to his classmates--especially when he already feels out of place.
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Zoe is sure that she can be anything she wants to be, despite a little voice of doubt that points out the problems with her ideas--but first she needs to learn how to read.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Herb the magicians rabbit loves the attention, the applause, and the carrots that are thrown on the stage every night by his adoring audience. But Herb does not like being stuffed into Abracadabra Als hat and -- Presto! -- being pulled out by his ears. Ouch! Finally fed up, Herb quits his job as a magicians rabbit and sets out to look for a new profession. Should he become a carrot farmer? Try his luck as a wild rabbit? Or take a risk...
14) LMNO pea-quel
Author
Series
Peas (Keith Baker) volume 5
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Busy little peas introduce more of their favorite occupations and activities, from actor to zipper on a zip line.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2009], c2005
Language
English
Description
Quinito describes the members of his family and some of the people in his neighborhood and what they do, from his mother the carpenter and his father the nurse to his teacher and his wife, the school crossing guard.
Author
Series
Humphrey's tiny tales volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The students of Room 26 are doing reports about the jobs they want to have when they grow up--and Humphrey the classroom pet hamster helps aspiring magician Miranda show the class about her own dream job"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1937, Lisette Roux and her husband, André move from Paris to Provence to care for André's grandfather, Pascal. Pascal was a pigment salesman and frame maker, and a friend of Pissarro and Cézanne who traded frames for paintings. When war breaks out, André hides Pascal's art collection to keep the paintings out of the Nazi's reach before he himself goes off to the front. Then, as the Germans come closer and set up the Vichy government, Lisette...
20) LMNO peas
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.
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