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Start making money today. Now. That's right! Danny Dollar is here to help you start our own business and be an entrepreneur. Think up an idea, make a budget, calculate expenses and profit, and you'll be living the dream!
- Make a Business Play
- Open a Savings Account
- Spend Wisely
- Achieve Your Dreams
List of contents
Meet Danny Dollar
Chapter 1: What Is Money?
Money around the World
Where is Money Made?
Chapter 2: Earn It!
Getting an Allowance
Gifts and Traditions
Entrepreneur? What’s That?
What Kind of Business Will You Start?
Make a Business Plan
Need Some Start-up Cash?
How Do You Make a Profit?
Chapter 3: Save It!
Where Do you Put Your Money?
Opening a Savings Account
Opening a Checking Account
What does It Mean to Invest?
Invest Bigger
Chapter 4 Spend It!
Needs and Wants
Ways to Pay: The Wallet Chronicles
What’s the Problem with Debt?
Get Smart with a Budget
Give Your Money Away!
Chapter 5 Dream Big
Yes, You Can
Danny’s List of Stuff to Do to Dream Big and Kick Butt in Whatever You Wanna Kick Butt In!
Believe in Yourself
Worksheets
Glossary
From the Author
Index
About the author
Ty Allan Jackson is an award-winning children’s book author, youth motivational speaker, and literacy advocate. A three-time TEDx presenter, he travels around the US inspiring children to read and educating adults about the impacts of illiteracy. Jackson’s self-published books have been featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News, The Steve Harvey Show, PBS, and the Hallmark Channel. In 2020, he appeared on Marvel’s Hero Project on Disney+ and a Good Morning America segment featuring Sydney Keys, a young man who was inspired by Jackson’s book Danny Dollar Millionaire Extraordinaire: The Lemonade Escapade to create an innovative book club for Black boys. Jackson is the cofounder of the Read or Else movement and the financial literacy program Danny Dollar Academy.
Summary
Saving money for something? Then this is the book for you! Danny Dollar, the “King of Cha-Ching,” will teach you to make money, save money, and spend money wisely—and to dream big! Maybe you get an allowance (clean the bathroom anyone?) or have been gifted money (birthday present?) but did you know that you can actually start a business and make your own money? Even as a kid! It’s called being an entrepreneur.
Danny shares tips for starting your own business, like how to write a business plan and raise start-up money (the money you need to get your business going).
Plus, you’ll learn how to open a bank account, create a budget, invest, and donate money. Danny will even introduce you to real life kids who are making their own money—and lots of it. Free yourself from having to ask your parents for money, and start making your own today!
Foreword
This fun and practical guide to financial literacy and entrepreneurship inspires kids to dream big and teaches them to make, save, and spend wisely, one penny at a time.
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“Jackson teaches kids step-by-step how to gain, save, invest, and spend their money. A fun and necessary read.”
—Sidney Keys III, literacy activist & CEO of Books N Bros
“So you want to be rich? And also, maybe, resilient, curious, patient, generous, and smart? This book is for you. Cha-Ching!”
—Catherine Newman, author of How to Be a Person
“'The awesome power of money' — that's the message this book delivers in a big, bold, beautiful way. Every kid deserves to grow up financially literate, and this book helps them do just that.”
— Jeannine Glista and James McKenna, creators of BizKid$ and authors of How to Turn $100 into $1,000,000
“A lively, easy-to-read blueprint to foundational skills” — KPCW
