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"Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary ; attending college is more of a tradition--a cultural rite of passage-- than a necessary step towards a successful career, justifying its steep cost. As countless entrepreneurs and creative hustlers have shown, there's a path to success outside of the institutions of so-called 'higher learning.' Allow us to show...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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"There's no getting around it. You need to know how to manage money to know how to manage life - but most of us don't! This illustrated guidebook from New York Times bestselling author and financial expert Jean Chatzky, Kathryn Tuggle, and their team at HerMoney breaks down the basics of money-how to earn it, manage it, and use it-giving you all the tools you need to take charge and be fearless with personal finance. How to Money will teach you the...
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Today, the average student loan stands at around $32,000, and research shows that it takes about 21 years for a college graduate to pay off their loan.
How can a young adult start off their career on the right foot when they already owe tens of thousands of dollars?
Then every month for the next 21 years, having to set aside hundreds of dollars for debt payment, while also having to pay for rent, food, and transportation?
This is a situation millions...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
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Sixteen-year-old Lucy Miller's family has been erasing people's heartaches and tragic memories for decades, but after an encounter with Marco Warman--a local boy Lucy has always wondered about and who seems to know more than he should--Lucy begins to question her family's legacy and her role in it.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
11) Made in Korea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"Two entrepreneurial Korean-American teens butt heads-and fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school"--
12) Glimpsed
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As eighteen-year-old high school Fairy Godmother Charity faces an existential crisis and blackmail from Noah, on whom she has a crush, she learns a great deal about her magic and herself.
13) Energy security
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Explores the energy crisis on a global scale, covering the environmental, political, social, and economic implications of dependence on non-renewable energy sources.
14) Melt with you
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"Two teen girls, former best friends and one-time lovers, go on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck"--
15) Pest
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High school senior and pest control technician Hallie Mayhew is desperate to trade her home in Santa Barbara for any east coast college that will take her away from her divorced, bickering parents and her dad's extermination business, but she fears that a rigged scholarship competition, wily thieves, and the handsome boy next door will contrive to keep her in California.
16) Loveboat Reunion
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Loveboat Taipei volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
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After their disastrous summer in Taipei, Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh must come together once more to help each other pursue the futures they want.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Sixteen-year-old figure skater Olivia Kennedy's Olympic dreams have ended. She's bitter, but enjoying life as a regular teenager instead of trying to live up to expectations of being the daughter of Olympians Michael Kennedy and Midori Nakashima...until Jonah Choi starts training at her family's struggling rink. Jonah's driven, talented, going for the Olympics in speed skating, completely annoying... and totally gorgeous. Between teasing Jonah,...
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