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 Lunch Money March 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really liked LUnch Money because it was detailed, funny and lots more!
It is about a boy named Greg, who, really, really, really likes money. For almost his whole life he has been enemies with a girl named Maura.
What will happen?Read the book to find out!
lunch money?! the best? chyea January 25, 2007
In Lunch Money, Greg Kenton, a normal 12 year old kid, is obsessed about money. He's always trying to earn money anyway he can, collecting bottles, extra chores, the works. He then thought of an idea, selling toys to his schoolmates, but the principle found out about it and banned him from selling them at school. Even though his idea for great money making was snatched away, he quickly regained his creativity. He thought of a genius idea to earn a load of more money. Little comic books, about the size of a credit card. The only bad thing about selling these mini comics, is it's giving Greg a lot of trouble. Maura, his neighbor, reproduced his idea into her own. A mini book, short stories about unicorns. Greg became furious against Maura thinking she was copying his idea. After many arguments and a fight that ended with a bloody nose and a teacher almost passing out, Greg and Maura made a deal to publish their own combination of a comic and story for the students at school. Later, the principal then again banned the comic books. Greg later noticed a flyer for a book fair. Comic books, were advertised in the flyer. Soon after finding this out, Greg and Maura sent a request to the school committee. Hoping to get permission to sell their books, realizing how unfair it was for the school to sell comics but Greg and Maura couldn't.
This story teaches you a great lesson about being selfish and learning how to share and respect others. It's one of your typical self changing books, but with a fun twist. Lunch Money is a page turning thriller and when you start to read it, you won't want to put it down.
lunch money?! the best? chyea January 25, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
In Lunch Money, Greg Kenton, a normal 12 year old kid, is obsessed about money. He's always trying to earn money anyway he can, collecting bottles, extra chores, the works. He then thought of an idea, selling toys to his schoolmates, but the principle found out about it and banned him from selling them at school. Even though his idea for great money making was snatched away, he quickly regained his creativity. He thought of a genius idea to earn a load of more money. Little comic books, about the size of a credit card. The only bad thing about selling these mini comics, is it's giving Greg a lot of trouble. Maura, his neighbor, reproduced his idea into her own. A mini book, short stories about unicorns. Greg became furious against Maura thinking she was copying his idea. After many arguments and a fight that ended with a bloody nose and a teacher almost passing out, Greg and Maura made a deal to publish their own combination of a comic and story for the students at school. Later, the principal then again banned the comic books. Greg later noticed a flyer for a book fair. Comic books, were advertised in the flyer. Soon after finding this out, Greg and Maura sent a request to the school committee. Hoping to get permission to sell their books, realizing how unfair it was for the school to sell comics but Greg and Maura couldn't.
This story teaches you a great lesson about being selfish and learning how to share and respect others. It's one of your typical self changing books, but with a fun twist. Lunch Money is a page turning thriller and when you start to read it, you won't want to put it down.
-S.K. :]
 Lunch Money January 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have you ever wanted to be rich? Probably. Well if you have, have you ever done anything about it? I'm guessing not. In the book Lunch Money, Andrew Clements writes about a boy who wants to be rich too, but he actually does something about it.
Greg Kenton is a boy with a dream. A dream to be rich, just like any other 12 year-old kid. Except Greg actually does something about it. Greg went around school selling little toys to students until the principle caught him and told him not to sell the toys in school any more. During the next school year Greg started selling little comic books that he made himself. After a few weeks the principle caught Greg selling the comic books and almost suspended him because he didn't listen to what she said the year before. Greg knew this was going to happen sometime but he didn't know what to do now. Then he saw something, a flyer. It was a flyer for the book fair and on one of the pages it showed comic books and Greg didn't really figure anything of it, until something hit him. Greg wondered why the schoolbook fair could sell comic books in school and he can't. That got Greg thinking. Will the school committee permit Greg to sell his comic books, or will they refuse?
Something that was surprising to me was when Greg made a deal with Maura (a girl in his class who he despises) to go into business with her because her comic books were better than his. Even though Greg despises Maura me made that deal with her because all he wants money because he is greedy.
Theme in Lunch Money is not to be greedy because you could lose all your friends. Another theme in this book is not to judge a book by its cover. An example of this was when Greg thought Maura was copying him he got really mad, but when he got to know her a little better Greg realized she was sort of inspired by him.
Do you like money? Well if you do I think Lunch Money would be a great book for you because it is all about a boy who wants money and the different ways he tries to get it.
AMAZING!!!!!!!! January 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a fantastic book. It has soooooooo much suspense and is very easy reading. Easy reading in this case means you don't even have to think about reading it, your eyes just glide across the page. It is really interesting. It is fun for most kids because almost ALL of Andrew Clements's books are about school.
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