When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.

Working at her family's independent bookstore during the summer before she leaves for college, Madeline Moore is determined to make the store succeed when she discovers that her crush, Jasper, works at the competing chain bookstore across the street.

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince find their business threatened by a new administrator, hired to clean up the school, and face added dilemmas when they agree to help Trixie Von Parkway, an eighth-grader who wants to get a teacher fired and who might not be who she claims to be.

When the opportunity arises, Shirley, the daughter of immigrants who live above their corner grocery store, turns some overlooked gefilte fish into a marketing strategy that changes the flavor of the neighborhood.

"Two entrepreneurial Korean-American teens butt heads-and fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school"--

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein. Includes author's note.

"Two teen girls, former best friends and one-time lovers, go on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck"--

Olivia Kennedy, daughter of two Olympians, is disappointed when her competitive figure skating dreams come to a halt, but is excited to enjoy being a regular teenager, that is until her rival starts training at her parents' struggling rink and her life becomes more complicated.

Even though twelve-year-old Pixie prefers to blend into the background, she might have to step closer to the center of attention when her friend runs for class president and when her mom leaves town indefinitely, leaving her parents' party planning business in need of a British-accented punk mermaid.

Josie wants to take over her family's business, Hazeldine Honey, but is lying to her mother and best friend about starting college in the fall, and secretly dating Ezra, the grandson of her mother's nemesis.