money

After Billy wins $410,000 in the lottery his friends claim that he owes them a share for helping him play, creating a tangle of lies, memory, and money.

As Harriet attempts to earn five dollars for a new kite, the reader learns about the coins that add up to a dollar.

Provides information about money and finance in colonial America, tracing the development of a money system from the arrival of Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century, to the American Revolution, discussing Native American money, merchant bankers, colonial merchants, bartering, coins and currency, taxes, and early banks and bankers.

Provides a variety of facts about United States paper money, including information about the people and objects that appear on the money.

Examines the history of money and the ways early man exchanged for goods and services, the different types of currency around the world, how money is minted, and electronic banking.

Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell's dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with the image of James Brown on it.

A quarter describes all the ways it is used from the time it is minted until it is taken back to a bank.

Ingenious eight-year-old Owen wants to make money for the things he absolutely needs, such as plastic vomit, but he tries to come up with some alternatives to earning an allowance, which sounds like too much work.

Examines, in text and photographs, the symbolic and material meaning of money, from shekels, shells, and beads to gold, silver, checks, and credit cards. Also discusses how coins and banknotes are made, the value of money during wartime, and how to collect coins.

Explores the concept of money and illustrates several ways to earn money.