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Making Bank: Money Skills for Real Life
The definitive young readers’ guide to tracking, saving, spending, enjoying and growing money
“No one knows what money will be like when you grow up. But here’s the life costs money. That has always been true and will still be true when you’re grown up. Whether you’re using babysitting money to buy takeout coffee with your pals today or trading digital tokens to buy an electric hovercar in twenty years, the same skills you must use to afford your Starbucks this week will be used tomorrow and every day after.
Learn and practise just five skills around money today and you’ll be ready to take on the world, no matter how much things change in five years or fifty years.
You got this.”
Told through a series of conversations, helpful guides, easy tables and definitions, Making Bank invites young readers to discuss a subject that is easy to money. With her signature charm, Shannon Lee Simmons transforms the thornier aspects of finance into easy-to-understand concepts. Whether it’s figuring out how to save for a senior-year trip, wondering what the heck inflation is or trying to wrap your mind around credit, interest and crypto, Shannon approaches every subject with expertise and empathy.
By focusing on how to track, save, spend, enjoy and grow their money, Making Bank rebuilds young readers’ relationship with it—one skill at a time.
“No one knows what money will be like when you grow up. But here’s the life costs money. That has always been true and will still be true when you’re grown up. Whether you’re using babysitting money to buy takeout coffee with your pals today or trading digital tokens to buy an electric hovercar in twenty years, the same skills you must use to afford your Starbucks this week will be used tomorrow and every day after.
Learn and practise just five skills around money today and you’ll be ready to take on the world, no matter how much things change in five years or fifty years.
You got this.”
Told through a series of conversations, helpful guides, easy tables and definitions, Making Bank invites young readers to discuss a subject that is easy to money. With her signature charm, Shannon Lee Simmons transforms the thornier aspects of finance into easy-to-understand concepts. Whether it’s figuring out how to save for a senior-year trip, wondering what the heck inflation is or trying to wrap your mind around credit, interest and crypto, Shannon approaches every subject with expertise and empathy.
By focusing on how to track, save, spend, enjoy and grow their money, Making Bank rebuilds young readers’ relationship with it—one skill at a time.
- GenresNonfiction
304 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2025
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109 people want to read
About the author
Shannon Lee Simmons
4 books53 followersShannon is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Investment Manager (CIM), media personality, personal finance expert and founder of the New School of Finance.
Simmons is widely recognized as a trailblazer in the Canadian financial planning industry and an expert in Millennial personal finances and money in the digital world. She was named one of Canada’s Top 30 Under 30, the 2014 Notable Award for Best In Finance and New School of Finance recently won the 2016 Wealth Professional Award for Digital Innovation. She is a regular financial expert in the media and has a monthly column for Globe and Mail personal finance section and is the host of Coral TV’s Money Awesomeness.
Shannon has put a dollop of red nail polish on the top right of EVERY SINGLE calculator she’s ever had since high school…… why? We aren’t sure, and neither is she.
Simmons is widely recognized as a trailblazer in the Canadian financial planning industry and an expert in Millennial personal finances and money in the digital world. She was named one of Canada’s Top 30 Under 30, the 2014 Notable Award for Best In Finance and New School of Finance recently won the 2016 Wealth Professional Award for Digital Innovation. She is a regular financial expert in the media and has a monthly column for Globe and Mail personal finance section and is the host of Coral TV’s Money Awesomeness.
Shannon has put a dollop of red nail polish on the top right of EVERY SINGLE calculator she’s ever had since high school…… why? We aren’t sure, and neither is she.
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October 19, 2025
A neat overview, the information is relevant and informative, and I can tell there's been an effort to apply to multiple situations. Solid advice!
December 15, 2025
Twas very good and informative!
May 22, 2025
Easy to understand explanations for teens, with no shame or judgment
November 25, 2025
A book that's mostly just a ton of information about learning how to budget, save your money, enjoy your money and do your taxes, stories of real life people are peppered in as examples. Though it does read like a textbook, it's great for people who have no idea what to do with their money. A book I probably should have read before I graduated high school, I think this would be great for kids to read before they become adults.
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