Hoping that his awesome moneymaking scheme, a summer youth employment service, will help win back his old friend Dan, seventh-grader Rusty finds instead that it leads to an unexpected new friendship with bossy Ruthann Miller.
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Rusty begins his new business venture just so he can win back an old friend, but in the course of this entertaining novel, ends up making a new one. Ages 10-14.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-9 In the summer after seventh grade, Rusty Timmons starts a business, hoping to earn enough money to build a basketball court so that he can lure back his old friend Dan Brower, who is spending all his time with the new girl in town, Tiffany Smeltzer. Rusty's business partner, Ruthann Miller, is annoying but hardworking and competent, and Rusty eventually comes to respect and admire her. This is a book that never really comes together. While light in tone, it does not deliver enough laughs to sustain a rather tired plot that centers on Rusty's business dealings. The basic premisethat a youngster would spend his whole summer working to earn money to buy back a friendis difficult to swallow, and none of the characters is interesting or convincing enough to draw attention away from this fundamental flaw. Few readers will make it as far as Ruthann's near-fatal horse accident and the resulting tearful hospital scene, which is probably just as well. Richard Luzer, Fair Haven Union High School Media Center, Vt.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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