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Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with help from his good friend Kate MacKinstrey. By the time he reaches the eighth grade, Rufus makes more than a gallon -- he makes a million! This fun, breezy story set in 1960s Cleveland, Ohio contains many real-life mathematical problems which the characters must solve to succeed in their budding business. Includes black-and-white illustrations by Jan Palmer.
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Jean Merrill is the award-winning author of over thirty books for children, including The Superlative Horse, The Black Sheep, and the wellknown satirical novel The Pushcart War.
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"Merrill's idealistic construct of how to succeed in business without really trying functions both as a light story and as an explication of free enterprise mechanics." -- Review
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0395185114
- ISBN 13 9780395185117
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages90
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Book Description Hard cover. Palmer, Jan (Illustrated by). (illustrator). 7th printing. 1972 first. Mustard color paper over boards. Black spine titles. Illustrated dust jacket. 89 p. Illustrations in shades of gray. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth entrepreneur: 12-year-old Rufus Mayflower had an idea. Soon he would be a millionaire. His fellow students would help him. Themes of logic, complicated arithmetic, business growth, honesty. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Jacket marred only by lower spine library category marking. Seller Inventory # Alibris.YC1230010491
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