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| Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids | 
 enlarge | Author: Gail Karlitz
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10886
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0843177020
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
EAN: 9780843177022
ASIN: 0843177020
Publication Date: November 12, 2001
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This newly updated edition of Growing Money answers every question a budding investor might ask: How do you read stock pages? What's the difference between stocks and bonds? Why do stocks go up and down? How can I keep track of investments? Can kids invest?
There has never been a time when the world of finance has been so much a part of kids' daily lives. Today's kids want to know everything about money-especially how to make it grow. This completely updated guide explains savings accounts, bonds, stocks, and even mutual funds! Included are fun quizzes to reveal a young investor's risk tolerance, stories of success and failure, a behind-the-scenes look at the New York Stock Exchange, and best of all, an imaginary fund of dollars to invest, along with suggestions for selecting companies compatible with kids' values. New to this edition are chapters on financial responsibility, true-life tales of other kid investors, and step-by-step instructions of just how to buy stocks. Tell your parents-investing isn't only for grown-ups anymore!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Great for kids... May 31, 2008
I live by the motto if you don't train your kids to survive financially you are training them to live life below standard. This book is a great entry level book. My daughter is doing great in her beginning of what I hope is a life long associations with the financial markets.
The Last Chapter is Key to Succcess... January 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The larger font size implies this book should be for ages eight to around twelve. If you purchase it for ages older than that, my guess is the child will feel like the book is too young for them. That is not to say that teenagers and adults cannot benefit from the information inside. This is a great investment book to begin understanding terms relating to different types of investments.
I like that special attention is given to the word investor itself, describing it as anyone who uses their money to make money. Thus, owning a simple savings account would make you an investor. I think children will be proud to be able to claim, "I am an investor!" Responsibility and financial money management will sneak in as part of the learning package and children will be well on their way to a successful financial future.
There are quizzes and trivia facts throughout the book which make it fun and maintain children's interest. The book goes into detail explaining stocks, mutual funds, and bonds, addresses the fact that personality plays a role in investing, discusses how everyone has a different investment style, what sets a stock price, the bulls and the bears, and more.
The last chapter challenges children to play an investment game. Children pretend they have $10,000 with the objective being to make as much as they can in six months. Charts are provided for tracking stocks and a portfolio value. I hope parents or teachers actually take the time to complete this last part with their children as nothing beats hands on experience.
Growing Money January 7, 2008
This is a great book written so kids can easily understand it and get them started on the road to investing, saving, and money management. I presented it to my grandchildren with their first shares of stock.
 Growing Money December 9, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A must read book! Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids
*Awesome explanation for kids to understand how to invest money
*Easy Reading
The kids love this book! September 14, 2007
This is a great book to get kids interested and started in investing money. I would recommend it to all parents, grandparents, guardians, whatever! The kids seem to actually pay attention to what it is saying---I read it to/with them and it uses kid friendly language...KUDOS!
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