Although his father has forbidden it, Ernie, a twelve-year-old business tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business, but when he refuses to give his star employee a raise and the business starts to fall apart, it takes the death of his own dog to bring everyone back together.
Sixth-graders Mac and Vince find their business threatened by a new administrator, hired to clean up the school, and face added dilemmas when they agree to help Trixie Von Parkway, an eighth-grader who wants to get a teacher fired and who might not be who she claims to be.
a historical encyclopedia of American business concepts
Dobson, John M
2007
Contains nearly four hundred entries that examine key concepts important to the history of American business, as well as biographies of notable inventors, entrepreneurs, and industrial and business leaders; arranged alphabetically within five time periods ranging from 1607 through the twentieth century.
Traces the development of the corporate form of business over the course of one thousand years, and uses a wealth of examples to show the major characteristics, governing rules and regulations, operation, and future of the corporation.
Tells how a seven-year-old boy and his sisters started a wreath-making business which, over the course of six years, grew to include other businesses, marketing, wholesaling, and investing, and netted more than $16,000.
When Mac takes a case that involves keeping a belligerent teacher off a fellow student's back, his investigation unearths even larger problems at his school. Even worse, he learns that his new "client" is not who she claims to be.
Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.
Fancy Nancy, happy from the success of her fashion boutique, must come up with an idea to save her little sister's birthday party when it starts to rain.
