Cashing In
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- 7,49 €
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- 7,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
One girl’s life changes overnight from town nobody to the girl everyone wants to be . . .
The Shaws have won the lottery. One point six million to be exact.
So life’s looking up, right? Going from just scraping by to super wealthy should solve all her problems, but for Reggie Shaw, life is about to get so much more complicated.
Kids who never even noticed her before are now acting like her best friends. Her best friends are suddenly acting really weird. And the overnight wealth may just ruin her chances with the one guy she’s fallen head over heels in love with. Who said being rich was easy?
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While the message that "money doesn't buy happiness" prevails throughout this rags-to-riches story, Colebank (Black Tuesday) expresses several other themes as she traces the escalating conflicts of a grounded teenager whose mother wins the lottery. At first, having enough money to finally get out of debt seems like an answer to a prayer for Reggie Shaw's struggling family. But the spending doesn't stop with paying off overdue bills. Reggie's mother, a compulsive shopper and gambler, goes overboard, buying new clothes and furnishings ("I knew we had money, but it wasn't like we were filthy rich," Reggie laments). Adding to Reggie's stress: she is being blackmailed by a self-centered cousin, her mother plans to remarry, and Reggie wonders whether she can trust a cute co-worker who wants to take her out on a date. Then there's the matter of Reggie's best friend, whom Reggie suspects is being abused. Problems arise as fast and furious as Mrs. Shaw's shopping sprees, and readers may find themselves out of breath and overwhelmed long before the novel's final, abrupt turn of events. Ages 14 up.
