A self-starter's guide to the joys of enterprise offers young readers a profusion of money-making ideas that transcend the standards--mowing lawns and baby-sitting.

One of the best managers in the history of mutual funds, Lynch is certainly the person to help people choose the right stocks and understand the market. More so than One Up on Wall Street or Beating the Street, this Lynch book is for beginning investors of all ages. Lynch and coauthor John Rothchild are family men who are worried that teenagers aren't learning enough about the importance of American companies in improving lives and creating wealth. Lynch questions why students are taught that Hamlet was a tragic hero and Napoleon was a great general, but they don't know that Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart.

Author Steve Otfinoski achieves a complicated feat: explaining to kids (ages 9 through 12) the fundamentals of how to thrive in the American economy. Otfinoski uses an easy, informative tone, and focuses on the young entrepreneur who wants to earn money. The author promotes the joys of work, finding a job or building a business, developing advertising, and so on. Later chapters provide explanations of banks, budgets, careful consumerism, taxes, investments, and, finally, charitable donations. --Ericka Lutz.

Whether you're a novice stockholder or a seasoned investor, you can teach the next generation of stockholders how to invest successfully. Creative, practical, and full of savvy financial advice, Wow the Dow! is a family-oriented guide to the workings of Wall Street that shows parents how to start investing in the stock market with their children and encourages kids to think intelligently about money.

Everything a kid would want to know about money! Well, almost everything! In the book you'll find a history of money, all about banks, how to start a business, information about investing, and a whole lot more. Don't worry, it's not a textbook, there are riddles, brainteasers, games and crafts, too! And, there are enough websites listed so that you could spend days on-line just learning about money!

This was always a dry subject growing up, but it's a vital life skill that presented in a fun way has the potential to change a child's future. Hollis Harman would like all children, 8 to 108, to read this and start investing today.

Students from across the country share their views on allowances, beginning with the pros and cons of regularly receiving money from parents. The Allowance Squad, made up of 166 students, ages 9 to 14, and their parents, explores the issues: how much, how often, linking an allowance to chores, saving and spending, and getting an increase. Nathan avoids advocating any single allowance plan. Instead, she offers lots of options and real life examples. The short sections of text are easy to read, and the cartoon illustrations provide comic relief to an issue that can turn into a battleground between kids and parents. The troubleshooting guide at the end of the book reinforces the concepts already presented and refers readers back to the text. A resource list and a description of the Allowance Squad are appended.