Lawn Boy Flashcards
“One minute I was twelve years old and wondering where I could get enough money for an inner tube for my old used ten-speed.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“The next minute, it seems, I’ve got a business of my own, with employees, and I’m rich.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
In this book, each chapter title describes a principle of business/economics and has coins falling from the top of the page.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
This book takes place in Eden Prarie, Minnesota
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“That, I was to learn later, was called capitalism.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Later I would learn that I had tapped into something called an expanding market economy.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
In this book, the main character’s birthday gift helps his family’s financial struggles.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Making approximately six hundred and thirty dollars a week.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“No vacation. Seven thousand five hundred dollars. No summer fun.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Five days earlier I had been wondering where I could find enough money for a bike inner tube and now I was considering how I could expand my business to distribute work and disperse wealth.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Half? I don’t do anything and I get half?”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
The main character, learning that he’ll get paid for his employees working lawns he doesn’t mow himself.
In this book, we never learn the name of the main character, who tells the story in the first person.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“It’s like watching a really good documentary about business. Far-out.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Arnold, the laid-back investor of the lawn profits, who guides the lawn boy in his growing business.
“First phases. Now aspects. Of my operation. I’m twelve years old and I have aspects.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
In this book, a stock investment in a coffin business earns thousands of dollars.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“I have fifty thousand dollars.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
In this book, the main character sponsors an athlete.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
In this book, the main character faces threats from a man who wants to steal his business.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“And just like that, I was the sponsor of a boxer, I had security for the business, and my fighter had a cool nickname. I love it when things work out like that.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
The main character, talking about Joseph Powdermilk (“Joe Pow”)
“And she’ll answer, ‘Yes, but it’s still nice to put carrots in stew for the flavor.’ And you think that somewhere inside that brain maybe a screw came loose. Then you find out that the last time the Yankees won the World Series she made a stew and forgot to put carrots in.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Talking about his grandmother
“Everything about him was round. Rounded shoulders, hips, arms, legs–even his head was a ball.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Describing Arnold
“Except that I’m not sure what a dishonest face would look like. Maybe a sneaky turtle? Or a shifty rabbit?”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Describing Arnold
“He has a purse? What kind of prizefighter carries a purse?”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Later I found it was just the sound of one of the men having his head jammed into a dishwasher.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“It was a huge auditorium with a ring in the middle and a bunch of fat men smoking cigars that smelled like dog poop when a hot mower blade hits it.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
At the fight for Joey Pow
“A mower?”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“I have no clue how all this will end.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Anyway, there was some message that came from the mower through the air and into my brain.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“You mow lawns?” he asked. “How much?”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“I mowed it, and he gave me money. Twenty dollars.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Supply and demand. Arnold nodded.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“‘You,’ he said, smiling, “have had a very groovy month.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“And as I watched him drive away, I really believed it.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Not fat, not heavy, just round.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Well, the stock did not lose.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
