Splatter! Splosh! The twins are on their way to get lunch with their dad when they drive through a muddy puddle. It's not lunchtime anymore, it's time for a CAR WASH! Close the hatch. Submarine. Going down. Inside the foamy sea of the car wash, giant octopus arms grab the car, a sea monster sneaks up from behind, and a tidal wave almost washes them away! Snappy text and G. Brian Karas's charming illustrations make this trip to the car wash a memorable one. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas.

EIFLE Award 2009, Institute for Financial Literacy Rutgers University, Project on Economics and Children - Book of the Month January 2009 The Nelly Longhair doll is on sale at Murphy's Toys for ten dollars. But Isabel has only fifty cents. Isabel decides to start a car wash business; she's sure she can make money. But at the hardware store she learns that her supplies will cost five dollars! If five of her friends will invest one dollar each, she'll have enough. Will Isabel be able to pay them back and have enough left over for the Nelly doll?

A boy and his father have fun washing the car together.

The Orange Pride Car Wash has been the most affordable car wash in Stillwater, Oklahoma for some forty years. Originally there were four Orange Prides, now only one is left, but keeping these last ten wash bays open and running is sometimes a bit of a challenge. Self Service Car Washes seem simple enough on the outside, put in the quarters, select a function and wash your vehicle. As long as everything is working we don't think much about how it works. But, the part you don't see from the outside, the components that makes it work, can be confusing when seen from the inside. This book attempts to explain the components, functions, maintenance and repair of a Self Service Car Wash. By breaking down the various parts and pieces that make up the necessary equipment, and explaining the interaction of that equipment so that out in the Wash Bay you can push a button and wash.

A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022 Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation's President. Through engrossing first-hand testimony, Pontes and Anselmo recount the uphill battle faced by the Federal Police in apprehending Brazil's white-collar criminals, in a country where the war on drugs has become a convenient distraction for the politicians and businessmen extracting billions of dollars from the public purse. A historical record that reads like a political police thriller, Operation Car Wash is also a warning to the world: demonstrating how easily institutionalized crime can take root in a nation, and how difficult it can be to eradicate.

Rhythmic, rhyming text describes what happens as a car goes through a car wash.

The 21st Street Sluggers have a problem: Their team T-shirts are worn-out and dirty. They need new ones, but they have no money. How can they raise some? A car wash! The team gets to work. Lilly is scrubbing, Julia is squirting, Will is polishing, and CJ is kicking back and counting the dollars and cents. Pretty soon everyone is wet and tired -- except for CJ. But his teammates have a surprise in store for the master of the cash! Learning how to count money and make change are important real-life math skills -- but teamwork is the most valuable player in this sports story.