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Resources for Income, Savings, and Spending Lessons
Books
	Alexander Who Used to Be Rich, Last Sunday by Judith Viorst (Aladdin, 1987) The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble With Money by Jan and Stan Berenstain (Random House, 1983) A Gift for Mama by Esther Hautzig (Puffin Books, 1997) The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Penguin Young Readers Group, 2006) The Leaves in October by Karen Ackerman (Simon & Schuster, 1991) Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (Little, Brown 1966) The Stories Huey Tells by Ann Cameron (Random House Books for Young Readers, 1997)

Websites
Ed’s Bank (http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/english/pop/games/p_ed_bank.html) This website is for younger students and struggling mathematicians who learn to save coins and then use them to purchase items from the story shelf in an interactive saving and shopping cartoon game. The Mint (http://www.themint.org) Find earning, spending, and saving information for students, parents, and teachers. Young Investors.com (http://www.younginvestor.com/kids) This website has games, puzzles, and information about earning and saving money. Escape from Knab (http://www.escapefromknab.com/land.html) This website is for older students and involves a game where users learn to save enough money to escape from the planet Knab.

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