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

Jessie, twelve, copes with what promised to be a long, boring summer with relatives by becoming apprentice to Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, who is facing new competition.--

"After recovering from a soccer injury that ended her Olympic dreams and still grieving the death of her beloved grandmother, seventeen-year-old Hannah Klein must navigate a new summer job working with her ex-best friend, her younger brother, and her brother's suddenly-attractive best friend."--

"The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"--

"In order to earn money, twelve-year-old Missy and her older brother Patrick spend the summer working on a blueberry farm, where they learn lessons about life and growing up"--

When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.

Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.

You'd think that Polly Martin would have all the answers when it comes to love since her grandmother is the famouse syndicated advice columnist Miss Swoon. But after a year of dating disasters, Polly has sworn off love. Now she's working for the summer at Wild Waves Western-themed water park, supervised by a former boyfriend. But then her grandmother moves in for the summer and becomes a man-crazy sexagenarian. During the summer Polly must face...

"Accompanying the Pike family during a two-week vacation to the Jersey Shore, baby-sitter Stacey falls head over heels for a handsome lifeguard despite Mary Anne's warning that he is too old for her." --

Sixteen-year-old Amy escapes family difficulties by immersing herself in her job at a mermaid-themed water show.