Money-Hungry
by Sharon G. Flake
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 750L (~4th grade) · 188 pages · 2003
Why we'd hand it over
A sharp, unflinching look at a kid building a school-supply monopoly and discovering that hustle culture and friendship don't automatically go together—Flake writes dialect-forward and doesn't soften the girl's ambition or the mess she makes.