To earn money to buy a doll that she wants, Isabel starts a car wash business with money invested by her friends, hoping to make a profit for everyone. Includes information on selling shares in a business.
When money becomes tight in the McNair household, Greg is willing to do chores and work in the neighborhood to earn money, but his cousin James looks for an easier way to get the things he wants.
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Amy's fourth-grade class, challenged to come up with a "green" project, learn about community activism and fund-raising from Amy's visiting Grandmother Hodges as they raise money to help revitalize a community garden.
Janie, twelve, lines up snow shoveling jobs for the other children in her Kid Power organization, but faces stiff competition from another group of shovelers.
The school is having a secret silent auction of student art works to raise money for charity and Katharine is annoyed because someone keeps bidding against her and also worried that her cousin Crockett will not get the item he really wants.
