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Escape the rat race

learn how money works and become a rich kid
2012
In graphic novel format, teaches financial intelligence through the story of Tim the turtle, who runs out of money at the amusement park and learns lessons from his friend, Red, about assets and liabilities, how to get rich through one's ideas rather than a job, and why it is smart for kids to think about starting a business.

Anna K

a love story
2020
Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.

The inheritance games

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Millionaires for the month

"After seventh graders Benji and Felix 'borrow' $20 from a lost wallet, the billionaire owner challenges them to spend over $5 million dollars in thirty days in order to learn life lessons about money"--Provided by publisher.

Fund-raising for presidential candidates

"Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates need money for their campaigns? How do they get the funds they need to succeed in politics? This book focuses on how and where presidential candidates obtain the money to help them run for the country's highest office. Readers will learn about the history of campaign fund-raising and discover how candidates in different time periods approached it. They'll also learn about historical events, including a recent Supreme Court decision, that changed the nature of fund-raising. Timelines, graphic organizers, and colorful photographs help students visualize the concepts, and sidebars provide additional information to enhance the text"--Provided by publisher.

The inheritance games

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Winterborne Home for vengeance and valor

After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom.

The kidnappers

a mystery
No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.
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People, power, and profits

progressive capitalism for an age of discontent
States that the American government and economy is slanted toward a select number of corporations, contributing to inequality, slow growth, and the exploitation of others rather than the creation of wealth. Describes true sources of wealth and ways to use the markets to work for all citizens, eliminating free market fundamentalism and instituting progressive capitalism.
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Everything but the truth

Holly Mathews lives at a retirement home for the super wealthy that her mother manages on expensive Mercer Island, but when she meets Malik Buchannan, grandson of one of the residents, she allows him to think that she is just visiting, so he will accept her as belonging to his A-list world--it is just supposed to be a summer fling, but soon she finds herself falling in love.
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