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Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, with photographs and illustrations throughout. This book explores why we work and why people around the world end up in the jobs, careers and professions they do. What do you want to be when you grow up? There are almost 3.5 billion people working in the world today, and that number is growing. In Why Do We Work? author Monique Polak explores why we have the jobs, careers and professions that we do and how work can be shaped by discrimination, privilege and child labor.

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9781459827950

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""" A realistic, trustworthy narration...Elementary and middle school librarians would find this to be an easy fit for their collections. Recommended.""-- ""School Library Connection"" ""Situates work squarely within our wondering, playful, and imaginative worlds...There are many reasons to like and welcome this book. Recommended.""-- ""CM: Canadian Review of Materials"""

A realistic, trustworthy narration...Elementary and middle school librarians would find this to be an easy fit for their collections. Recommended. -- School Library Connection Situates work squarely within our wondering, playful, and imaginative worlds...There are many reasons to like and welcome this book. Recommended. -- CM: Canadian Review of Materials

Situates work squarely within our wondering, playful, and imaginative worlds...There are many reasons to like and welcome this book. Recommended. -- CM: Canadian Review of Materials

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Monique Polak is the author of more than thirty books for young people. She is the three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and YA Literature for her novels Hate Mail, What World is Left and Room for One More. In addition to teaching at Marianopolis College in Montreal, Monique is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean's Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and other Postmedia newspapers. She is also a columnist on ICI Radio-Canada's Plus on est de fous, plus on lit! In 2016, Monique was the CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation inaugural writer-in-residence. Monique lives in Montreal. Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator. Her love for drawing started in a kindergarten art school after being kicked out of calligraphy class for refusing to convert to right-handedness. Formally trained in art history and cultural anthropology, she worked for several years as a university librarian until her passion for illustration called her out of that career and into the pursuit of a lifelong dream. Since then, Suharu has created illustrations for magazines, public art projects and children's books, including Why Humans Work: How Jobs Shape Our Lives and Our World in the Orca Think line. She also teaches illustration at OCAD University in Toronto.

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