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Start-Up Smarts April 2024 |
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Sadiq and the cookie crash
by Siman Nuurali
In order to earn enough money to buy a birthday gift for his mother, Sadiq, his siblings, and his friends start a cookie delivery business, but baking and delivering cookies proves to be more complicated (and messy) than they expected.
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Friends fur-ever
by Saadia Faruqi
Imaan Bashir loves dogs, but she doesn't have one. Yet. When one of Imaan's neighbors needs a last minute pet-sitter for her dog, Sir Teddy, a great idea is hatched...But the reality of pet-sitting is a little more complicated. Imaan soon discovers that Sir Teddy is a real paw-full.
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Awesome orange birthday
by Mitali Banerjee Ruths
While planning her aunty's birthday party with the intention of donating the money she makes to help endangered animals, Priya becomes overwhelmed with all the things she has to do and hopes that her very first party will be a success.
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J.D. and the great barber battle
by J. Dillard
Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious new illustrated chapter book series that will appeal to early and reluctant readers alike.
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Slime Shop
by Kevin Panetta
A humorous adventure comic featuring three friends who run their own slime shop and the slimes that come alive to help them. Includes slime recipes.
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How to win a slime war
by Mae Respicio
The king of slime creations, Alex competes against a fellow student to win the right to be the only slime game in town and must navigate sticky situations with friends and family to ooze out on top.
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Katie the catsitter
by Colleen A. F. Venable
Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.
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The braid girls
by Sherri Winston
Starting a business called Braid Girls, Maggie, her stepsister Callie and her best friend Daija arrive at a summer camp that is full of kids with locs begging to be braided, but when their rival shows up with her own braiding business, the competition becomes fierce.
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All you knead is love
by Tanya Guerrero
Reluctantly spending the summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, 12-year-old Alba discovers a supportive network of new friends and a passion for baking that she hopes may heal her troubled family.
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Front desk
by Kelly Yang
Recently immigrated from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao, is a nasty skinflint who exploits them. While her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese kids in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason.
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From the desk of Zoe Washington
by Janae Marks
When she receives an unexpected letter on her twelfth birthday from the incarcerated father she has never met, a courageous young baker prepares for a cooking-show competition while scrambling to determine her father's innocence.
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When life gives you lemons, make peach pie
by Erin Downing
Looking forward to the summer after a difficult year, siblings Lucy, Freddy and Herb are rendered unexpected millionaires by one of their late mother's inventions, before their father invests in a food truck and takes them on a pie-selling road trip.
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Ella earns her own money
by Lisa Bullard
When Ella decides that she wants to buy a new soccer ball, she comes up with several ideas for raising money to buy it
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What banks do with money : loans, interest rates, investments ... and much more!
by Janet Liu
Understanding how banks work - as well as the basics of loans and investments - are just two critical financial literacy skills that all kids should have. Did you know that banks use customers' deposits to make loans to other customers? Or that the Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States? Learn all this and more in this book that introduces kids to banking.
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Get to know money: a fun, visual guide to how money works and how to mange it
by Kalpana Fitzpatrick
Knowing the ins and outs of money is important for kids, whether they're trying to work out what to do with pocket money, or if they dream of making millions on the stock market. Children can begin to understand how money works with this jam-packed guide, filled with personal finance tips such as how to save money, how to keep it safe, and how to grow it!
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Bee fearless: dream like a kid
by Mikaila Ulmer
Sharing practical advice for how to be a force for positive change, the 15-year-old lemonade entrepreneur and one of TIME Magazine's Top 30 Most Influential Teens describes how two bee stings and her grandmother's recipe for flaxseed lemonade inspired her work as a conservation activist and business owner.
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