Paulsen, Gary (2009). Lawn boy. New York: Random House. A twelve year old boy is broke. His grandparents give him an old lawnmower and he starts mowing lawns in the neighborhood. One client teaches the boy about profits, supply and demand. By the end of the summer, the boy builds a business, has employees, a business partner and a mountain of cash. This is a fiction book with lots of humor, is full of sayings, mishaps and puns (p.173). Lawn Boy is “an impossible story and has ridiculous situations” (p.175). The book does not have any awards.
This book may be used in a classroom when students learn about investments and when they solve simple interest problems. Students may create a Venn diagram in the Microsoft Office. The diagram which includes
This book may be used in a classroom when students learn about investments and when they solve simple interest problems. Students may create a Venn diagram in the Microsoft Office. The diagram which includes