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Greenhill High #3
Making Big Bucks
Money makes the world go round - and that's just what the Greenhill kids don't have, but Lav knows how to get it. And when she organizes the others into the Lettuce-Help-U Corporation, big bucks and trouble soon follow. The author also wrote "Break a Leg".
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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February 9, 2020
Aww, really I'm the first to put this on Goodreads? Sadface.
This book is totally a classic of my childhood, and for the most part (aside from some unavoidable dating) it stands up pretty well. It's the second sequel to the Worst Soccer Team Ever (OMG I'M OLD test for Kiwis - do you remember the TV adaptation?), and follows the continuing adventures of the gang from Greenhill. It's probably my favourite in the series - I reread this more than any of the others - and I was a little alarmed to realise, turning over the flyleaf, that I got this book signed 18 years ago. Not got this book, not that it was published then, but that was when I got it autographed. WOW. (I'm OLD. *g*) Parts of this book are quotes that surface in my life regularly, even if no one but me (and probably Rachel, now that I made her read them too) gets them; "used my awesome local knowledge" is a big one. I probably identify a little too much with Tom Colman, let's just say. Though I've never had an archfrenemy, let alone one like Carlos Gibson. This book follows the kids over the Christmas holidays, when they're all dead bored and decide to start a business running odd jobs and errands to make the Big Bucks of the title. As an entrepeneurial kid myself, I loved the crap out of this book then (working the Santa Parade and using fistfuls of lollies to wipe the smirks off the faces of the annoying kids you don't like! Brilliant!) and I'm still deeply fond of it now, while I can identify a few of the very 80s tricks and attitudes but also appreciate what William Taylor did with it.
(ETA: I read this twice this year? Oops.)
This book is totally a classic of my childhood, and for the most part (aside from some unavoidable dating) it stands up pretty well. It's the second sequel to the Worst Soccer Team Ever (OMG I'M OLD test for Kiwis - do you remember the TV adaptation?), and follows the continuing adventures of the gang from Greenhill. It's probably my favourite in the series - I reread this more than any of the others - and I was a little alarmed to realise, turning over the flyleaf, that I got this book signed 18 years ago. Not got this book, not that it was published then, but that was when I got it autographed. WOW. (I'm OLD. *g*) Parts of this book are quotes that surface in my life regularly, even if no one but me (and probably Rachel, now that I made her read them too) gets them; "used my awesome local knowledge" is a big one. I probably identify a little too much with Tom Colman, let's just say. Though I've never had an archfrenemy, let alone one like Carlos Gibson. This book follows the kids over the Christmas holidays, when they're all dead bored and decide to start a business running odd jobs and errands to make the Big Bucks of the title. As an entrepeneurial kid myself, I loved the crap out of this book then (working the Santa Parade and using fistfuls of lollies to wipe the smirks off the faces of the annoying kids you don't like! Brilliant!) and I'm still deeply fond of it now, while I can identify a few of the very 80s tricks and attitudes but also appreciate what William Taylor did with it.
(ETA: I read this twice this year? Oops.)
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