The Startup Squad by Brian Weisfeld and Nicole C. Kear - ADVISABLE

The Startup Squad by Brian Weisfeld and Nicole C. Kear, 160 pages. Macmillan Publishing, 2019. $17

Content: G 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS  - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Mrs. Davis is taking her class to Adventure Central, an amusement park. The students are expected to pay their own way to the park. She assigns groups and lets students know they have to open a lemonade stand. The group that sells the most lemonade will win fast passes to the rides at the park. The winning team will win line skipping passes to the rides at the park. Resa is ready to be a leader and make sure her team wins the line-skipping tickets. The four girls, Resa. Didi, Harriet and Amelia have to learn to work together and not let their personalities stand in their way. They need to learn to cooperate.        

The four girls each have strong personalities and they are each sure that they are the one that should be team leader. It takes the girls some time, even losing profit to the competition before they learn to work together. I liked the book, it was a fast and fun read. I think this book offers some real advice and ideas for girls that want to start a business and be leaders. In the back of the book you will find helpful hints, and an interview with a girl that started her own business. The characters are believable and it was great to see how the group of girls in the book made a success out of their lemonade stand by working together.  You will have to read the book to learn whether the girls won the contest or not.      

Ellen-Anita, Librarian