A solid, thoroughly readable guide
Just about anything teens would want to know about money and finance but didn’t know enough to ask.
McGuire first makes the often intimidating world of finance—not generally a topic on a teen’s must-read list—approachable by separating the book into four tidy subsections: Earning, Saving, Spending and Protecting. She makes it further accessible by using concrete examples instead of abstractions. She discusses the ins and outs of starting a business, with two entrepreneurial teens describing how they acquired their startup capital and how they juggled their businesses with their school schedules. Oftentimes, McGuire departs from giving purely financial advice and provides counsel that sounds like it comes from a mentor or parent. “Your number one job as a teen is to get good grades, gain experiences from school and community activities, and prepare for higher education.” She advises teens on appropriate dress for an interview—“When in doubt, dress up, not down”—and how to discriminate between wants and needs. She also covers banking and investing, saving for the near and far future, and purchasing car and property insurance. There are scads of helpful websites, as well as a sample resume, budget and W-2 form. Colorful photos and charts and eye-catching graphics keep the pages turning.
A solid, thoroughly readable guide . (Nonfiction. 12-18)Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-62370-135-2
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
Review Posted Online: June 3, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2014
Idealistic and hopeful.
PopActivism founder Paisley (Can Your Outfit Change the World?, 2018, etc.) is known for the prom dress she made out of her old math homework to raise awareness about the importance of education for all girls.
Her latest book provides a brief overview of feminist activism in eight chapters, with a full-color layout of photos, sidebars, and quotes. In “A Different Type of Education,” the author explains how she discovered and forged her feminist identity. “The F Word” answers the question of what feminism is and covers the history of its three waves. It also includes a brief explanation of intersectionality. “Hashtag Equality” discusses how to use social media to bring awareness to inequalities women face. “Your Body, Your Choice” urges readers to question the ways cultures police female bodies. “Smashing the Glass Ceiling” explains barriers in education and the workplace and ways to break through them. “Power Projects” describes several campaigns aimed at ending injustices girls and women endure around the world. The author acknowledges some of her favorite feminists in “Conversations in Action,” and “The Future of Feminism” covers ways in which readers can become activists. The Canadian author cites statistics from a white North American viewpoint, and the book’s inclusiveness only grazes the tip of the intersectional iceberg, but it’s still a good jumping-off point for budding feminists searching for an upbeat place to start.
Idealistic and hopeful. (glossary, resources) (Nonfiction. 12-adult)Pub Date: Sept. 18, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4598-1309-0
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Orca
Review Posted Online: June 17, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2018
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An important story drowned in illegibility and exposition.
A biography, in comic form, of a survivor of Josef Mengele’s horrific experiments on twins.
Eva and Miriam Mozes are twins, born in 1934 to the only Jewish family in their Romanian village. Though Papa, fearing the antisemitism of interwar Romania, wants the family to flee to safety in Palestine, Mama argues against it. And so it is that they are still in Romania when their home is invaded by Hitler’s ally, Hungary. Following an all-too-familiar story, the Mozes family is sent first to the ghetto and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Torn away from their family, the girls are brought to Mengele for his nightmarish twin experiments. The graphic form mercifully makes it difficult to provide much detail of the stomach-churning tortures Mengele inflicted on those he found lesser, though the blocky illustrations certainly feature starvation, death, and disease. After the girls are liberated by the Soviets, they begin the second part of their ordeal: living with their trauma. Two extremely dense chapters detail the next 74 years, eventually building to the journey Eva would take late in her life toward liberating herself by forgiving the Nazis. This overstuffed survivor tale owes less to Maus than it does to the For Beginners series of graphic nonfiction. Dense blocks of historical play-by-play, ungainly prose, and hard-to-read lettering make this a slog.
An important story drowned in illegibility and exposition. (Graphic biography. 13-15)Pub Date: Oct. 5, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-68435-178-7
Page Count: 144
Publisher: Red Lightning Books
Review Posted Online: Aug. 31, 2021
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2021
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