Siblings Evan and Jessie couldn't be more different. Evan is a people person, while Jessie is a book person. The two work well together as a team, but when an argument gets out of hand watch out, it's war! A lemonade war!The stakes: the winner needs to make $100 selling lemonade and the loser forfeits all earnings to the winner.
Upset that Jessie will be skipping 3rd grade to join him in 4th grade, Evan worries that all of his classmates will think that he's stupid because his little sister will be joining his class and will no doubt outperform him in his worst subject: math. Meanwhile, Jessie worries that she will not make any friends with her new classmates. Brough on by sore feelings between brother and sister, the lemonade war teaches the two a lot about business and marketing as they compete to win. Each chapter begins with a business or marketing term and its definition. Included within the text are Evan and Jessie's math calculations concerning their inputs and outputs, which makes this a great math/fiction read.
Echoing the highs and lows of a real business, Evan and Jessie celebrate the joys of a long day's worth of hard-earned profits and the lows of losing it all. Together they learn the value of a dollar, friendship, and teamwork as they collaborate to record their business experience on a poster display for the Rotary Club's Annual Labor Day Contest.
This book would be great for boys and girls in 4th grade and up.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Davies, J. (2007). The lemonade war. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
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