Eleven-year-old Lola Zola panics when her parents announce, "We were laid-off." "Fired?" "Not fired, Lola, laid-off-from the auto plant." Either way, it's bad news. How will Lola rescue her parents and tail-less cat Bowzer from the jobless blues? Then the idea of all ideas hits her square in the noggin like a lemon seed spit at one hundred miles per hour: a lemonade stand Lola goes to work with the squirt and slurp assistance of her best friend, freckle-counting Melanie Papadakis. When Lola's class rival-Charles Wembly III aka, Slime Bucket-hears what the twister sisters are up to, he opens...

Eleven-year-old Lola Zola wants a bra, but her mother won't buy her one, reminding her that she's "not quite ready." Ouch. But Lola isn't giving up - she's even praying for her pancakes to become cupcakes. Her prayers go unanswered and Lola and her BFF, Melanie, are coming to the realization that they'll be the only girls at school without bras. Just when they've become used to being called "Flatty Patties," a new girl with a great figure moves in next door to Lola in the sleepy desert town of Mirage. "Queen Pauline," as Lola and Melanie call her, hails from Malibu and lives tween life in the...

Desert detective Lola Zola,11, can't figure out if the Bingo King is a good guy or a swindler. The newcomer who popped up from behind the tumbleweeds hosts family Bingo nights to benefit the troops and wants to make America greater than great. So what could be bad? In between Bingo games, the newcomer peddles stock in a never-seen desert windmill farm. Half of Mirage, including Lola's mother and maybe Lola, too, wants in on the Bingo King's investments and who can blame them for hoping to get rich quick. Lola would love new hair bows, a new skateboard and a mountain bike just like Buck's....