Book Topics:
Careers, Fields of Study
Book Recommendations by Theme are listed here in order to help teachers, book club organizers, and other readers find books organized around a common principle, or big idea. Please see the Main Page List of Themes for more categories, as well as Book Lists by Topic
Please note - books are only listed here if the main character is actively engaged with the career, or the parent/neighbor career is integral to the story.
There are hundreds of other careers in the books, but this list only includes strong representations of each field of study.
Please note - books are only listed here if the main character is actively engaged with the career, or the parent/neighbor career is integral to the story.
There are hundreds of other careers in the books, but this list only includes strong representations of each field of study.
Apprenticeships
Business, Law
The Lemonade Crime - legal system
The Lemonade War - business principles
Lunch Money - running a business
The Lemonade War - business principles
Lunch Money - running a business
Cooking, Baking
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All You Knead is Love - Spanish bakery
The Dirt Diary, The Prank List - cupcakes, baking Everything on a Waffle - assorted recipes It's Raining Cupcakes - cupcakes, baking Lasagna Means I Love You - family recipes Lights, Camera, Cook - cooking competition |
Neil Flambe - Canadian teen chef (fiction)
The Night Diary - Cooking in India Roll With It - baking (pastries) Salt and Sugar - baking in Brazil Stef Soto, Taco Queen - food truck |
Detectives
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Chasing Vermeer
Dog Man Enola Holmes Framed! Fun Jungle series The Genius Files The Great Shelby Holmes Loot Masterpiece The Mysterious Benedict Society |
Neil Flambe
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen Shakespeare's Secret Space Case Woof Wells & Wong Mysteries (Murder is Bad Manners) |
Pilots
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Code Name Verity - female pilots WWII
Flygirl - female pilots WWII Incommunicado - wing walkers and pilots, WWII |
Science
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Airborn (fictional creatures, but still observing)
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Powerful Weapon - development of atomic bomb Chasing Secrets - physicians, plague, immunization Consider the Octopus - environmental protection Endangered - bonobo wildlife sanctuary Fatal Fever - spread of disease Full Cicada Moon - astronauts The Incredible Magic of Being - astronomy Liberty Porter, First Daughter - U.S. Presidents Listening for Lions - ornithology Maybe a Fox - rock collection (geology) |
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters (zoology)
The Neptune Project - marine biology (science fiction) Rebel McKenzie - paleontology (the Ice Age kind, not the dinosaur kind) Red, White, and Whole - biology/cells/medicine Something Rotten - roadkill-related: biologists, zookeepers, taxidermists, museum curators, researchers Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave - zoology The Thing About Jellyfish - marine biology Vincent Shadow, Toy Inventor - inventions The Way of the Hive - A Honeybee's Story A Whole Nother Story - inventions |
Soldiers
Spies
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The Bicycle Spy (French Resistance WWII)
Code Name Verity Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Vietnam War |
Teachers
Other Careers
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A Boy Called Bat - veterinarian
All Fall Down - Embassy Row #1 - politics, diplomats All's Faire in Middle School - Renaissance Faire The Black Pearl - deep sea fishing Checked - police (traffic) The Dirt Diary - cleaning service Farmer Boy - farming Fever, 1793 - coffee shop Front Desk - motel management Geek Girl - modeling A Handful of Stars - migrant workers Hope Was Here - waitress The House That Lou Built - house construction A Match Made in Mehendi - matchmaking My Life in Pink and Green - pharmacy/general store |
Paperboy - delivering newspapers
The President's Daughter series - politics The Pros of Cons - taxidermy Salt to the Sea - nursing Saving Kabul Corner - Afghanistan grocery store in Cali. Simon Sort of Says - funeral director, deacon This Journal Belongs to Ratchet - car repair Uprising - factory workers We Are Party People - party planners |
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