🍋 Book 1 · Labor Day · Ages 6–9

Lulu Lilly The Great Lemonade Strike: A Labor Day Story of Bees, Bosses, and One Very Bad Batch

Lulu Lilly fired the cat. The cat did not even work there.

When Lulu finds out that Monday is Labor Day — and NOT a day about labradors — she learns something shocking: the garbage truck men come to her house every single week, and she has never once said thank you. With her WORDS. So Lulu launches Operation: Thank the Workers. One lemonade stand, one weekend, one crew of best friends.

Batch Number One goes wrong (sugar and salt live in the same white bags). The bees go wrong (bees LOVE lemonade). But mostly the boss goes wrong — because the boss is Lulu, and Boss Lulu has a whistle, a clipboard, a hat that says BOSS, and a payroll made entirely of stickers. So her crew goes on STRIKE. Even the cat joins the picket line. The FIRED cat.

Now Lulu has one weekend to run a whole lemonade empire alone and learn the biggest lesson in business: if nobody wants to work for you, the problem is probably the boss.