Ginger and Pickles, a yellow tomcat and a terrier, sell a bit of everything at their very convenient shop, but they are forced out of business when their customers fail to pay their tabs.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Clay Jannon, the new night clerk at Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, notices the strange behavior of the customers and is determined to find out what is really going on.
A father and son wander into a magic shop in London and are amazed by what they see; but soon things become more and more curious until the father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins.
Johanna, a German girl, learns on a trip to Israel that her family's successful clothing store was originally owned by a Jewish family and was acquired by her grandfather through the anti-Semitic laws of the Nazi regime.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Explores the history of modern shopping culture and trends, discussing how retail stores have changed from the early 1800s to the present with online shopping and megastores.
