Alamosa Public Library

"Engaging images accompany information about smoke jumpers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Readers learn various words dealing with careers in this bilingual English/Spanish title.

Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.

"Engaging images accompany information about deep sea fishermen. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

"Engaging images accompany information about disgusting jobs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--

With over thirty thousand occupations currently in existence, workers today face a bewildering array of careers from which to choose, and upon which to center their lives. But there is more at stake than just a paycheck. For too long, work has driven a wedge between families, dividing husband from wife, father from son, mother from daughter, and family from home. Building something that will last requires a radically different approach than is common...

Describes some of the things that doctors do to help people stay healthy.

A little boy ponders the many possible jobs in his future, from paper-plane folder and puppy-dog holder to mixing-bowl licker and tin-can kicker.

Describes some of the things that letter carriers do to make sure people in the community get their mail.

Illustrations and rhyming text introduce the many careers and professions of mummies, such as real estate agents selling haunted houses and dentists filing vampires' fangs.