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Inc. Magazine, The Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs gives you an opportunity to share your story about building and running a lemonade stand, and you could win the Grand Prize, a $1,000 savings bond and a super backpack filled with back-to-school supplies. Find out more about their annual Best Lemonade Stand in America Contest and what it takes to enter. http://www.inc.com/lemonade/2008/

The Junior Achievement Student Center is an online navigational tool geared to help you become workforce ready. Here you can search for colleges based on your wants and needs, seek out financial aid to help you pay for that higher education, gain knowledge on how to handle your money, explore careers you have always been interested in, get tips on how to start a business of your own, and much more! http://studentcenter.ja.org/

Welcome to Mind Your Own Business, where you can find the links to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality. Created by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Junior Achievement, this site walks you through five easy steps of business ownership - whether you've just had a brainstorm for your first business venture or you've been at it a few years. So go Mind Your Own Business, and find out about the challenges and rewards of being an entrepreneur. http://www.mindyourownbiz.org/default.shtml

Reccomended Reading by Junior Achievement Elementary School Programs

Ourselves (K): Farming by Gail Gibbons

At the Carnival by Kristen Hall

Carlos and the Carnival by Jan Romero Stevens

The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla

Our Families (1st grade)-Families by Ann Morris

The Children’s Kitchen Garden by Georgeanne Brennan

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Toothpaste Millionare by Jean Merrill

Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams

Li’L Sis and Uncle Willie by Gwen Everett

My Baby Brother by Harriet Hains

Something Special for Me by Vera B. Williams

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

A Street through Time by Anne Millard

Yoko by Rosemary Wells

Our Community (2nd grade)-Weslandia by Paul Fleischman

Our Nation (5th grade)-Entrepreneurs by Krista McLuskey

Jobs People Do: A Day in a Life of a Builder by Linda Hayward

Our Region (4th grade)-Economics and the Environment by Jake Goldberg

Our City (3rd grade)-Homes and Cities: Living for the Future by Sally Morgan

Inc. Magazine, The Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs gives you an opportunity to share your story about building and running a lemonade stand, and you could win the Grand Prize, a $1,000 savings bond and a super backpack filled with back-to-school supplies. Find out more about their annual Best Lemonade Stand in America Contest and what it takes to enter. http://www.inc.com/lemonade/2008/

The Junior Achievement Student Center is an online navigational tool geared to help you become workforce ready. Here you can search for colleges based on your wants and needs, seek out financial aid to help you pay for that higher education, gain knowledge on how to handle your money, explore careers you have always been interested in, get tips on how to start a business of your own, and much more! http://studentcenter.ja.org/

Welcome to Mind Your Own Business, where you can find the links to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality. Created by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Junior Achievement, this site walks you through five easy steps of business ownership - whether you've just had a brainstorm for your first business venture or you've been at it a few years. So go Mind Your Own Business, and find out about the challenges and rewards of being an entrepreneur. http://www.mindyourownbiz.org/default.shtml