Get Smart with Your Money: Set 1
This valuable and essential set provides a thorough understanding of financial basics. Readers will learn about budgeting, getting a job, opening a bank account, using a credit card, investing, buying a car, and finding an apartment. Students will be on the right track to acquiring the skills they need to manage personal finances and to make sound decisions about money. Math examples are used to illustrate specific points and to keep the information accessible to struggling readers. "Myths and Facts" and "Ten Great Questions to Ask a Financial Adviser" are special features included in each book.
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Series Review: Get Smart with Your Money"Everyone needs to learn how to handle money and this series is a good, basic resource for teenagers. Writing directly to the reader, each author gives scenarios and advises the reader how to make a financial goal, follow through, and evaluate how the budget worked. The language is clear and direct. Five brief chapters and accompanying illustrations are easy for lower level teen readers to understand, but the content will be relevant for all middle and high school students..."
--Library Media Connection
Series Review:
"Offering practical information and advice, these titles will be useful additions. The writing is accessible and directed at readers who know how to spend money but not how to spend it wisely. Complicated topics such as creating and managing a budget, credit scores, and negotiating a high-ticket item like a car are explained in everyday language."
--School Library Journal
Book Review: First Apartment Smarts
"Although it's easy to get excited about leaving home, there's plenty to be overlooked in one's haste to get out. Have no fear: Byers presents a nice primer in apartment shopping, dividing the process into five steps--planning, budgeting, searching, moving in, and living smart--and covers everything from nitty-gritty details like forgotten expenses (What? I have to pay for bleach?) to difficulties caused by lack of established credit...As part of the practical Get Smart with Your Money series, this is an important topic rarely discussed with teens, and it subtly advises financial responsibility by asking questions like "Can you really afford your own place?" and encouraging apartment seekers to invest time researching their fiscal circumstances."
--Booklist
