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Fourth grade entrepreneur Howard J. Fingerhut competes with his classmates to win the H. Marion Muckley Junior Businessperson of the Year Contest and writes an advice book about the experience.
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About the Author
Esther Hershenhorn is the author of THERE GOES LOWELL'S PARTY!, CHICKEN SOUP BY HEART and ILLINOIS: FUN FACTS AND GAMES. She offers her own how-to advice to children's book writers as a teacher, writing coach and Regional Advisor and Director of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. A former elementary school teacher, she now speaks frequently at conferences, schools and libraries. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Grade 3-5-Howard J. Fingerhut is an intelligent, athletic, and incredibly confident fourth grader, so when he learns that his class is participating in a contest, he is certain that he will win. The challenge is to start a profitable business with a $50 investment supplied by the town's milkshake maven. Howie evaluates his skills and the needs of his community, and he chooses to open "A Boy for All Seasons," a basic raking, shoveling, and mowing enterprise. He is so sure of his impending success that he also decides to write a self-help book for other young entrepreneurs, with one chapter for each month of the school year until his inevitable victory in June. That is the rationale for the structure of this novel. The majority of children in the target audience will not have read or had any experience with a self-help book, so much of the humor will be lost on them. The author forces the structure to such a point that there are spots for photos that Howie claims he "will have his publisher include," leaving readers with over 15 virtually blank pages to ponder. The characters are not strong enough to overcome the underlying format flaws. Titles by Andrew Clements provide readers with a more satisfying mixture of reality and humor.
Laura Reed, Pickering Public Library, Ontario, Canada
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- PublisherHoliday House
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0823416429
- ISBN 13 9780823416424
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages125
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