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61) Odd jobs
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Odd Jobs checks out the kookiest jobs in the world--jobs too strange to be made up! The book is written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience with a lower level of complexity for struggling readers. Clear visuals and colorful photographs help with comprehension. Fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest are conveyed in considerate text for older readers, allowing for successful mastery of...
62) This is Ruby
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"Ruby is a little girl with a sense of curiosity and enthusiasm that's too big to contain! Ruby is always busy -- she loves to make things, watch things grow and figure out how things work, with her dog Teddy by her side. And Ruby has lots of ideas about what she wants to be: maybe an animal conservationist? Or an archaeologist? She's great at excavating (i.e. digging holes). Or maybe an inventor? She's already invented a book with smells instead...
63) Principals
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Presents what the school principal does and discusses what they need to know and what kinds of problems they solve.
64) Auto mechanics
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"When your car breaks down, it can be a big problem! But don't worry--a mechanic can have you back on the road in no time. Filled with colorful pictures, this book takes young readers behind the scenes at an auto garage and teaches them about the skilled professionals who help keep our vehicles running. Additional features include a table of contents, informational captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index,...
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Jellyfish whisperer: With crazy-colored dyes and awesome lasers, bioengineer Kakani Katija researches jellyfish in the waters of Panama and Palau.
Satellite sleuth: Searching for Genghis Khan's tomb means using drones and aerial surveys -- not on-the-ground techniques -- for research scientist Albert Lin.
Snake charmers: Burmese pythons in Florida? Yep! Research biologists Skip Snow and Mike Rochford prowl the Everglades examining and removing these...
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"I Want to Be an Engineer is part of a I Can Read series that introduces young readers to important community helpers. This Level One I Can Read is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own. For anyone looking for books about community helpers for...
70) Lice check
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During an outbreak at school, George tries to remain lice-free while ensuring that his dad's booth at Career Day is more popular than his rival Louis Farley's dad's.
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We celebrate cops, firefighters, and soldiers, and rightly so. But let's also celebrate teachers, bus drivers, grocery clerks, mail carriers, and the other folks who keep the world spinning around every day. And let's give a nod to kids, too--kids who are kind and brave and help each other. They're heroes too.
75) Certain women
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Criterion collection volume 893
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A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
76) Farmers
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"Grow our food, raise our cows and sheep, fill our tables with good things to eat! In this book, readers will meet the farmers who grow and raise the food that we need to live and thrive. Aimed at emergent readers, the text also includes vocabulary specific to this community helper's job, along with colorful action images"--
77) Meet the farmer
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Farmers know how to get the most out of the land, whether with crops or big farm animals. Readers learn more, about the lives of these important community helpers with the help of full-color photographs and easy-to-read text. Readers discover how big tractors help farmers work quickly, and what kinds of animals call a farm home. Accessible text helps early readers grasp concepts, while a picture glossary pairs vocabulary with colorful photographs...
78) All systems whoa
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Abby in orbit volume 3
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On Career Day, third-grader Abby Baxter is unsure of what she wants to do when she grows up, and when she accidentally makes a mistake that causes the space station's systems to go haywire, Abby must untangle the mess.
80) Vinny gets a job
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The Secret Life of Pets meets Amelia Bedelia in this witty and sweet debut picture book about an overly-literal pup trying his paw at several different jobs and the hilarious mishaps that ensue.