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
