Librarian teacher discusses children's books. Students are encouraged to contribute their own book review or short summary of fiction or nonfiction books. This blog is of interest to 3rd through 6th graders.

Lawn Boy

Do you know about economics? What is economics? How about a simple way to learn about money and one way to make it and have fun in the process? Read Gary Paulsen's book, Lawn Boy. A very short, actually too short, he could have written more but a short book with chapter titles like: Dramatic Economic Expansion: Its Causes and Effects and Overutilization of Labor Compounded by Unpredicted Capital Growth. Sounds scary, huh? It's not. The main character has help from Arnold after making money on cutting lawns and Arnold, not being able to actually pay the lawn boy, invests it for him. Crazy way to learn about the stock market but very easy to understand. I recommend this book for a bizarre mow through the lawn of capitalism!

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