During a summer as a lifeguard at an exclusive resort hotel, ambitious sixteen-year-old Max falls for wealthy Annabel and learns something about other people's limitations and his own.
Discusses various aspects of securing part-time, summer, or full-time employment, including determining job goals, making contacts, assessing your skills and strengths, and choosing pertinent training.
Hoping that his awesome moneymaking scheme, a summer youth employment service, will help win back his old friend Dan, seventh-grader Rusty finds instead that it leads to an unexpected new friendship with bossy Ruthann Miller.
After getting a job at a vintage clothing shop and quickly bonding with two older girls, fifteen-year-old Veronica finds herself making bad decisions in order to keep their friendship.
Stuck working in the lost and found department of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
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.
Alternating chapters present the view points of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falling in love.
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.
Babylon Edison arrives in New York City, excited about her summer job working for "Orange" magazine, but she is unprepared for the intense challenges that await her in her personal and professional life.
