"How do entrepreneurs get ideas for a new business and how do they make their businesses thrive?  Discover the fascinating stories of people, like Steven Spielberg, Victoria Kisyombe, Oprah Winfrey and Amit Goffer, who have used their success to give back through innovation, invention and creating opportunities for others" --

What is there to do with a closet bursting with outgrown clothes, a toy chest brimming with old playthings, and drawers overflowing with forgotten knickknacks? How about a yard sale! With a little hard work, readers can find new homes for the belongings they've outgrown - and fill their pockets in the process! Readers will learn valuable lessons throughout this engaging book, such as how to let go of things they no longer need and the value of a good...

"The students at Lizzie's high school are notoriously terrible at breakups. Forget awkward conversations--they're dumping each other via text. Inspired by the terrible breakups around her, sixteen-year-old Lizzie, strapped for cash and itching to go on the school's band trip to NYC, teams up with her best friend, Willa, to create a genius business: personalized gift baskets--breakup baskets--sent from dumper to dumpee. The Goodbye Girls operate in...

This title unwraps the life of Mrs. Fields founder Debbi Fields! Readers will follow Fields's journey from her early work with the Oakland A's to her opening of Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery to the nation-wide chain of cookie shops. A timeline, fast facts, infographics, a glossary, an index and color photos supplement easy-to-read text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Shares the life of the fast food entrepreneur, including her education, her early career in the aerospace industry, and how she used her software expertise to revolutionize the way Panda Express did business.

"All the great leaders had to start somewhere. And Theresa ("Resa" for short) is starting with the lemonade stand competition her teacher assigned to the class-but making it a success is going to be a lot harder than Resa thinks. The prize: line-skipping tickets to Adventure Central. The competition: Val, Resa's middle school nemesis. And the biggest obstacle to success: Resa's own teammates. Harriet is the class clown, Amelia is the new girl who...

A guide for youngsters seeking to start their own business includes tips, interviews, and ten entrepreneurial ideas, from starting a lemonade stand to building an Etsy art store.

"Rockets are awesome! Elon Musk thinks so too. Elon Musk has helped to revolutionize banking, transportation, energy, and of course space travel. But how did he get to where he is? And what fuels him to reach for the next big thing? This book is about rockets, but maybe it's about something bigger, too." -- Amazon.com

Born into an African American family a few years after the end of the Civil War, the woman who became known as Madam C. J. Walker entered a world where slavery was still a very raw wound in American society. Although she was orphaned at a young age, C. J. Walker quickly learned about the world around her and how to adapt. The children of sharecroppers, she and her sister worked in cotton fields until Walker married at the age of fourteen. Eventually,...