A great introduction to financial literacy concepts! This enlightening reader explains that you need to make money to spend money. Once you earn money, a decision needs to be made save it or spend it.

Are you ready for vacation? You’ll need a budget first! Learn how to budget with a family as they get ready for an upcoming vacation. They’ll plan for unexpected expenses, and create a plan to provide for the necessary expenses that are a part of any vacation. With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they learn to work with decimals and build their STEM skills.

Bella, Emily, Maddie, and Sam decide to create their very own start-up—a lemonade stand!—in this fifth book of the Craftily Ever After chapter book series. Bella, Emily, Maddie, and Sam have been hard at work in their craft studio—so busy in fact, that their supplies are starting to dwindle. It’s time to stock up! In order to add a little money to their piggy bank, the friends decide to combine their skills and use the last of their allowance to create their very own business: a lemonade stand! But something’s not quite right. While the stand looks fabulous, the lemonade is…not. And where are all their customers? Can these crafty entrepreneurs save their business before it’s too late? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Craftily Ever After chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

In the high-interest, nonfiction text Aaron Burr, readers will examine the life of Aaron Burr and his political rivalry with Alexander Hamilton. Through the use of dynamic primary sources like maps and letters, middle school students will be engaged as they read about history and build their literacy skills. Supporting current social studies standards, this full-color text includes intriguing images, interesting sidebars, a glossary, and other important text features to support learning and strengthen key comprehension skills. Challenging activities require students to use text evidence to connect back to what they've read.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt tackled some of the toughest times the country has been through. His leadership lifted the country out of the Great Depression and through World War II while facing many personal obstacles. Dive deep into history with this biography that piques students’ curiosity about historical events through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.

Learn about financial literacy with this engaging and informative social studies reader. Explore needs and wants, goods and services, goals and budgets, and saving and spending, all in a meaningful, kid-friendly way.