In Business with Mallory by Laurie Friedman is a great book.
It starts with Mallory watching her favorite show, Fashion Fran, and
Mallory and Mary Ann are both watching the show and talking over the phone (In
this book Mary Ann doesn't live next door). Fran shows an item called The
Perfect Purse, a purse with ten different covers, and Mallory and Mary
Ann both want it desperately, but the purse is a little pricey. They make a
plan to both get one and wear it when Mary Ann comes to visit next weekend.
Good news: Mary Ann's mom gets her one. Bad news: Mallory's mom doesn't get her
one. So Mallory goes to Plan B. She picks up the phone and calls her Grandma.
Mallory tells her grandmother all about the purse, expecting Grandma to buy it
for her. Instead, Grandma tells her a story.
"When I was a young
girl, there was a doll I wanted... one day I tore a picture of the doll out of
a magazine and showed it to my parents...They didn't get it for me, even though
I begged and pleaded and promised I would do anything if they would just get me
the doll... My parents told me the doll was very expensive, and that even
though she was beautiful, she was a silly waste of money...I decided to buy the
doll myself...I had to go to work to make enough money to buy the doll...I
started a business going door to door selling oranges for a penny until I had
enough to buy the doll" Mallory wonders what she could do. Her
Grandma tells her, "Give it some thought. Talk to people. I'm sure
you'll come up with something...Good luck, Honey Bee, and let me know what
happens."
Mallory
tries four businesses, but they all become a flop. Mallory tries one more
business and she works together with Mary Ann, and it's a success! But Mallory
has barely enough money to buy herself the purse. And Max's, her brother's
eleventh birthday is soon. Should she get the purse, or get her brother a
present? She's worked so hard on getting it, and Mary Ann even helped.
Meanwhile her neighbor, Joey Winston, is annoyed with Mallory. She's been so
busy trying to get that purse that she doesn't even have time to
skateboard. Will Mallory make the right decision on what to buy? Will she
patch things up with Joey?
Review by Sarah B. Grade 4
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