If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It

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Helps young people think outside the box to envision a dream career beyond the best-known jobs Includes full-color photos and illustrations, table of contents, index, glossary, interactive quiz, and resource pages about different types of educationHonors all different types of job education, including university, college, trade school, apprenticeship, specialized training, and self-directed learningThe profiles were created through direct communication and interviews with individuals of different races, religions, abilities, and gender identitiesIncludes smaller features on children and young adults who are already gaining experience, for example by taking a barber course or caring for rescued livestockFeatured jobs include marine biologist, human rights lawyer, author, chief medical officer, barber, farmer, meteorologist/storm chaser, ornithologist and museum curator, smokejumper, neuroscientist, teacher, play by play announcer, photographer, animal and conservation interpreter, mathematician, interior designer, restaurant owner and chef, research veterinarian, graphic designer, cake designer, journalist, stuntperson, NHL scout, clothing designer, carpenter, and professional video game player.Colleen Nelson is the award-winning author of The Undercover Book List and The Harvey StoriesFeatured Americans include:Scott Edwards, Ornithologist and curator at Museum of Comparative Zoology at HarvardMartha Schoppe, Smokejumper who lives in Colorado when not at a station and grew up in Maine. She attended Oberlin College in Ohio.Neuroscientist Ryoji Amamoto, who immigrated to Chicago from Japan as a child and studied at HarvardShawn Makepeace, vision-impaired Animal and Conservation Interpreter at the St. Louis Zoo who previously worked at the University of Connecticut and has her PhD from the University of Cincinati, her masters from the University of Connecticut, and degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Western Florida, and Southwestern Illinois College Eugenia Cheng, mathematician at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who previously worked at the University of ChicagoJoshua Jones, Deaf interior designer born in southern California who has lived in Oregon and Washington and attended the Art Institute of Seattle and Western Oregon University. Dr. Raphael Malbrue, veterinarian (trained at Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine in AL, Master of Science at Louisiana State University, is Clinical Associate at Ohio State University)Blake Bolden, NHL scout for the LA Kings and formerly a player with the Boston Blades and Boston Pride. First African-American woman to compete in the NWHL. Raised in Stow, Ohio and attended Northwood School in Lake Placid, NY, for their hockey program, then Boston College.