Not Your Parents' Money Book

Making, Saving, and Spending Your Own Money

By Chatzky, Jean Sherman & Haya, Erwin

Publishers Summary:
For the first time, financial guru and TODAY Show regular Jean Chatzky brings her expertise to a young audience. Chatzky provides her unique, savvy perspective on money with advice and insight on managing finances, even on a small scale. This book will reach kids before bad spending habits can get out of control. With answers and ideas from real kids, this grounded approach to spending and saving will be a welcome change for kids who are inundated by a consumer driven culture. This book talks about money through the ages, how money is actually made and spent, and the best ways for tweens to earn and save money.

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ISBN
978-1-41699-472-5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on October 1, 2010  |  Grades 5-up

Gr 5 Up—Written in a light, somewhat jocular tone and sprinkled with amusing but eye-opening and conversation-starting quotes from 12-, 13-,and 14-year-olds, this book is sure to hold readers' attention. The content includes how you get money, via allowances and jobs, and notes the difference between cash-only and paychecks. Tracking typical teen expenditures, both long-term and short, is juxtaposed against keeping money in checking, savings, and money-market accounts. Parents' cash flow, adult salaries, and costs of goods such as minivans are all touche...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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