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The Get Rich Quick Club

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Have you ever wondered about UFO`s or the secret of the universe? Well there is a book with adventuresome kids who experience all of this. This great book is titled The Get Rich Quick Club. This marvelous book is by the famous Dan Gutman.
This book is all about a girl who loves money and who`s role model is Bill Gates who was the richest man in the world. Her name is Gina Tumulo and she made a oath to make her first million dollars by the time she is twelve. The problem is that she is eleven and time is running out. Then one day she goes to the tree behind her house and finds her friends Rob, Quincy, Eddy, and Teddy. They decide to form a club to make a million dollars. Then they decide to snap a phony UFO photo.
I would rate this book 4 out of 5. I would recommend this book for anyone between the ages 7 and eleven. I enjoyed it a lot. I hope you read it.

by Sean

Do you want to be a millionaire? This book is called the get rich quick club by Dan gutman. This book is about a group of kids who want to be Millionaires so they try to get a real UFO so they can take a picture of it and gives it to a newspaper reporter so they can be millionaires. But will they be rich? Will they ever get to see a
Real UFO? Well you will have to read this book to find out!
I like this book because it starts with this really weird dream
It is about... you thought I was going to tell you right?
That's why you should read the book to find out. Another
Reason I like this book is because it has this really
Exciting part that you do not want to miss. This book is
A humorous book. I shouldn't tell you anything
Else because I might tell you the secret! I recommend this book
To people who like money. I hope you enjoy this book.
If you read it!

The Not So Well Club!


Will the 5 boys get rich by selling a fake U.F.O picture or will they not get rich by
selling the picture!

The Get Rich Quick Club is about 5 boys find an idea of a fake UFO picture and they plan to sell it to get money. The boys don't make it, but they all have fun. One of the kids tells the people that the picture is fake. What will happen next?

I think the author's purpose is to tell kids to be truthful and to entertain kids.

My favorite part of the book is when the boys start the get rich quick club because the boys all try to think of funny ideas to get rich. For example, they tried to create a fake UFO picture using house supplies. The picture kind of worked...they didn't get rich, but they got famous.

I recommend this book because it is funny. It also shows kids how they can make money.
By: Julia

A group of friends decide to get rich quick by selling an "Alien/UFO story". A funny ride for the reader and a short chapter book - just what the students want in a classroom set. Great for starting comprehension dialogue.

Kids may enjoy reading this book, but I can't recommend it because it is a book about a group of materialistic kids who lie in an attempt to get rich without working for it. Also, when a mom of one of the kids calls him home he is encouraged to disobey..."Look, I told Quincy. "Just because your mom's calling doesn't mean you have to leave." Learning to disobey and call it "negotiating" is considered one of the fine points of business--like lying. Lying is wrong, disobeying your parents is wrong--sin is sin, and always leads to bad consequences--except in this book.

I'm a mom with a family of boys, and we read a lot. We really liked Dan Gutman's book "Satch and Me." However, in contrast to that book, "The Get Rich Quick Club" is a turn-off.

The lead character in this book, Gina, is an eleven year old who professes to LOVE money. And she wants to get a lot of it. Sooo... she sets out to scam her town, and eventually the entire country. Plenty of adults knowingly help her in her scam, and of course in the end she becomes discredited. Funny ending that plays on "the boy who cried wolf."

It's an entertaining book, but there are some problems with language and ethics:

- comments like "anything fun costs money;"
- calling people "stupid" 20 different ways in Australian slang;
- replacement curse words (dang, darn, heck);
- advice like"If you ever get caught in a lie, don't admit it. Just say, "I forgot;"
- sassing parents.

This is a poor choice, values-wise, of a book for my kids.