num_pages: 88
description: One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold.If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many things. And one of them was Joey Pow the prizefighter. That's when my 12th summer got really interesting.
language: English
title: Lawn Boy
titlecomplete: Lawn Boy
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Humor, School, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Chapter Books, Middle Grade, Economics
ratings_count: 8252
series: Tales to Tickle the Funnybone
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: Children
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books