America's oddest jobs / Therese Shea.
Material type: TextSeries: Weird America!Publisher: New York : Gareth Stevens Publishing, [2017]Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781482457551
- 1482457555
- 9781482457575
- 1482457571
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 331.7 S539 | Available | 33111008680874 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Some of the weirdest occupations on the planet can be found right in our backyards. For every golf course near our homes, for example, there might be someone diving in its ponds searching for golf balls. Some people even collect snake venom or teach dogs how to surf! Curious readers get to explore the many odd jobs that dot the American landscape through colorful photographs and graphics that highlight some of the strangest things people do for a living.
Includes index.
Want an odd job? -- Golf ball diver -- Furniture tester -- Potato chip inspector -- Dog food taster -- Gum taster -- On the nose -- Line sitter -- Fortune cookie writer -- Dog surfing instructor -- Snake venom collector -- Standardized patient -- Ocularist -- Glossary -- For more information -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Some of the weirdest occupations on the planet can be found right in our backyards. For every golf course near our homes, for example, there might be someone diving in its ponds searching for golf balls. Some people even collect snake venom or teach dogs how to surf! Come discover some of the strangest things people do for a living.