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Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Do your kids know how the free market works? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have grown up taking for granted the many things they use: clothes, cars, homes, backpacks--even something as simple as a pencil. In this fun adventure to an amazing factory, the twins learn why even the common pencil is a miracle--one that nobody actually knows how to make--and how the process by which it is made is the key to prosperity in our modern age. Based on the classic essay...
Author
Series
Striker Jones volume 2
Publisher
Maggie M. Larche
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Striker Jones and his friends solve a new batch of mysteries while away at summer camp. Each mystery teaches a new economic concept.
Author
Publisher
Maggie Larche
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
This is a chapter mystery book that teaches children basic economic skills. In each chapter, boy detective Striker Jones solves a mystery every child would understand, using one or more economic concepts. Without using economic jargon, this book teaches concepts such as risk, incentives, supply and demand, and trade-offs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Why do people make the choices they do? Now that they've made some money, Ethan and Emily Tuttle begin to wonder how they can put it to good use and earn even more. So the idea of a Children's Entrepreneur Market is born, which can help them find other kids who might want to borrow their money to build their small business. But as the twins soon learn--thanks to the ideas from Human Action by Ludwig von Mises--this is risky business. People have...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Kat discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it's time to start saving and she joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club who teach her that saving time with family is as important as...
11) Get real
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A consumer guide for tweens provides insight into a range of topics from truth about fast-food nutrition to the environmental costs of cheap products, and shares related counsel on how to make informed shopping decisions.
Author
Series
Choose your consequence volume 1
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's the perfect vacation: the Tuttle twins have saved their money, planned things out thoroughly, and are ready to head off to South America to water ski, hike the jungles, and see some of the world's oldest ruins. What could go wrong? Nearly everything, as it turns out. But that's for you to decide. You're in the driver seat of the story to determine what the consequences will be. Will you send Ethan and Emily to the ruins, knowing that they are...
13) Kingdom come
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An unemployed advertising executive investigates why the deranged man who shot his father in a shopping mall was released without being charged.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Between things they like to do and things they need to do, Brother, Sister, and Papa Bear are finding it hard to keep up. Mama advises that they must learn to prioritize their chores and hobbies by being more organized. Working together, listening to each other and pitching in are the perfect solutions that can be used to find a balance in their daily lives.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch George whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only sane family member is Lindsay's twin brother Michael,...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, darkly funny novella about Bob Honey--a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. He's just a guy trying to make it through each day while grappling with loneliness, alienation, violence--uncertain of his place in a culture that considers branding more important than being. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people. He dreams he is sleeping with his ex-wife...
Series
Reading rainbow volume 138
Publisher
GPN
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Elm Street Kids' Club decides to sell lemonade to earn money to fix up their clubhouse. They monitor their success by tracking daily sales. In this math-based episode, LeVar takes viewers to the American Stock Exchange, for a closer look at the economics and challenges of running a business. We also explore two very different kinds of companies: a for-profit business and a non-profit organization.
20) Tuttle Twins
Publisher
Corvus Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
"Ethan and Emily Tuttle start a lemonade stand just to lose it to a bad law. But when Grandma Gabby moves in with the family, she takes the twins on her wheelchair time machine to France and the Old West. They learn what makes a good and bad law. But will the twins be able to reclaim their lemonade stand in time? This adventure is influences by the famous economist Frédéric Bastiat and his groundbreaking book, The Law." --