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1) Double Fudge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
4) Lawn boy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
5) Destiny
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Destiny tries to find meaning in her art in a life complicated by three younger siblings, a mother who dreams of winning the lottery, and her mother's unscrupulous boyfriend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly caught short on cash and everyone is in a panic. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders--including Alvin Duffy, the bank's new vice president--hatch a plan...
8) Reamde
Author
Language
English
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
11) The purse
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
After spending her money on a purse, Katie is now faced with the problem of getting some money to put into it.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
After finding fifty dollars, Sophie thinks she is rich, but when she learns that snooty Mindy has more than that, she tries to think of a way to make more money in a hurry.
17) Millions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
While pondering how to buy her mother a birthday present with no money, Deena find a penny and follows a process of discovery about how pennies add up to nickels, which add up to dimes, all the way up to four quarters making a dollar.
19) Traders
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jobs are gone. Homes are being repossessed. Suicide rates are soaring. But Vernon Stynes might have the answer. Through an underground online network of similarly displaced individuals, two people agree to trade by emptying their bank accounts, selling everything they own and putting the cash into nondescript green bags. They then travel to a remote location, dig a grave and fight to the death. Winner buries the loser and takes the two bags.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Language
English
Description
A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite of all he has saved, he still does not have enough money.