Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen
Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen
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Lawn Boy

Author: Gary Paulsen

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/01/2009

Synopsis

One day I was twelve years old and broke. I set out to mow some lawns with Grandpa’s old riding mower. One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about: the beauty of capitalism. Supply and demand. Diversifying labor. Distributing the wealth. “It’s groovy, man,” Arnold said.The grass grew, and so did business. Arnold invested my money in many things. One of them was a prizefighter. All of a sudden I was the sponsor of my very own fighter, Joey Pow. That’s when my twelfth summer got really interesting.Gary Paulsen’s comic story about a summer job becomes a slapstick lesson in business as one boy turns a mountain of grass into a mountain of cash.

About Gary Paulsen

Three-time Newbery-winning author Gary Paulsen, hailed as "one of the best-loved writers alive" by the New York Times, divides his time between his ranch in New Mexico, a sailboat on the Pacific Ocean, and his dog-kennel in Alaska. He's written over 200 books for young people, stories that have been embraced by readers of all ages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by babyhippoface on March 31, 2008

Lawn Boy is a super-fast read (about an hour, total) with more action, character development, and snickers packed into its spare little 88 pages than about a hundred fatter novels I could rattle off. I liked it right off the bat, mostly because of the narrator's description of his grandma in the fir......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 19, 2012

Lawn Boy by author Gary Paulsen is a short young readers book about a boy...who mows lawns. I normally like Gary Paulsen, but I think he whiffed on this one. This book is about a rather dull kid who apparently has no name (at least I could never find one) who likes to ride a lawnmower and mow people'......more

Goodreads review by Rawson on September 06, 2013

A colleague recommended this book as part of an interdisciplinary unit on economics that math, social studies, and language arts could do all together. I hope the order for the class set of novels goes through, so we may do just that, for I think it would be effective teaching, and the students woul......more

Goodreads review by Vicki on February 06, 2008

This is a first person narrative that is about a 12 year old boy who gets a lawnmower from his grandpa and starts making money. The book smiles it's way to funny and is very fast read. It definitely pushes reality and you don't want to ignore the chapter title as they expand the humor. What's funny......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn on November 26, 2008

Lawn Boy By: Gary Paulsen Review by: Kaitlyn Gary Paulsen has written MANY wonderful stories, that I highly recommend this one. Lawn Boy is so real, but yet different from the rest of his stories. This story takes place in Minnesota, in a neighborhood called, Eden Prairie, where they’re tons of lawns......more

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