The Secret Life of Money: A Kid's Guide to Cash

If discussing money is a difficult task for adults, it's doubly so where kids are involved. Not only is the subject loaded with cryptic jargon (mortgages? Bull markets? Huh?), but it often fails to click with how a kid sees his or her world. Many preteens and young teens do not yet have a job, and even if they do, their responsibilities with their earnings are miles away from grown-up money issues. In other words, not only is money a little overwhelming and mysterious, it's also seen as something they can't do anything about.

The Secret Life of Money is written to address this last point in particular. It's central message is that money affects us deeply and that even kids can have an effect on it, too. This book uses odd anecdotes, engaging comics, and a wealth of surprising everyday connections to help young readers see and understand cash from an entirely different angle. From the history of different currencies to why we buy what we buy, from how charities and credit cards work to saving and investing, and a whole lot more, readers will gain not only an appreciation for the myriad ways that money changes, influences, and (even) betters their lives, they will arrive to an understanding of the control they have over it.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Owlkids
Published: 03/13/2012
ISBN: 9781926973180
Pages: 151
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/23/2012 pg. 166
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2012
Quill & Quire 03/01/2012 pg. 46
Booklist 05/01/2012 pg. 94
Foreword 05/31/2012
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2012 pg. 126 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
School Library Journal 04/01/2012

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 151733 / Secret Life of Money: A Kid's Guide to Cash
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6