Lawn Boy - Author: Gary Paulsen

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen : A Book Report

In the Lawn Boy , a twelve-year old boy from Minnesota who gets a lawn mower from his grandmother on his twelfth birthday . He was so fascinated by the machine and turned it on their lawn instantly . Then a neighbor comes along and offers him to pay 20 to mow his neighbor 's lawn . The character in the book was industrious and trustworthy . He made the most out of the trust (and money ) given to him by the neighbor . Through his industry and by finding a

good teacher (the stockbroker Arnold Howell he manages to grow his fledgling business into a half-million dollar empire

The boy did not have a lot of friends who were his age . That was surprising . Some kids may have banded together to tackle such a business . But probably because the boy was alone with his lawn mower when he started , he did not get to call his friends to help him out and grow his business

The novel was so full of ideas about economics and capitalism . The good thing is that the language is not very difficult to understand . By explaining the nature of working , getting paid , hiring and investing through the story , any reader could grasp these concepts easily . If I ever read these terms and concepts from an economics textbook , they would have been more difficult to understand . The way the stock market works is a bit difficult to understand . But I am sure that...