Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

"Amelia Bedelia's class is hosting a bake sale to raise money for the school library. She bakes delicious brownies to sell, but so does everybody else! Fortunately, Amelia Bedelia squints hard and sees the surprise in the brownie bounty, and she and her friends learn about basic concepts of business and the importance of giving back"--

"Elli and her best friend Tara have a wonderful opportunity to revisit their best friends Jonah and Ricky at the boys' family estate, Garland House. The boys' parents are now offering working vacations-- a course on organic self-sufficient gardening-- and have offered horseback riding lessons to their first two paying guest families. It sounds like so much fun that the girls, who brought theri horses, plan to help out! But the old house may be haunted,...

Although his father has forbidden it, Ernie, a twelve-year-old business tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business, but when he refuses to give his star employee a raise and the business starts to fall apart, it takes the death of his own dog to bring everyone back together.

"Third-grader Teeny Sweeney has been one-upped by seemingly perfect Amanda Mayweather too many times. When their teacher assigns a project to create a business plan, Teeny knows she's destined for success. After all, with two entrepreneurs as parents, business sense is in her blood! The best laid plans, though, often go awry. Teeny will have to learn that God's plan is one she can always trust, and that with prayer it is possible to love everyone--even...

Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different--but things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time.

Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.

Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.

The last thing twelve-year-old Christopher "Kip" Campbell wants is to take over the funeral business that has been in his family for generations, but he is the only Campbell heir and seems to have a calling to help the dead and their survivors in a most unusual way.

When George, a curious monkey, escapes from the zoo, his mischief turns the jobs he tries into disasters - including a broken leg.