This is a simple story parents can use to teach children the basics of managing money. The illustrations are sweet and may help younger children understand the book better, though the story is simple enough for school age children. The authors include a short guide for parents at the end with 10 simple steps to begin using this method with one's children. This method includes not only the basic ideas of saving, spending and giving, but briefly introduces banking principles as the boy in the story takes his savings cup to the bank. Though my daughter is not quite old enough for an allowance. I will definitely be keeping this idea in mind for future use!
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review.

Not my favorite in the series... basically just details Janie's "meeting" her father, and dealing with the decision to isolate or face the consequences.

this book seemed very illogical and strange. It follows the main character as she works as a summer clerk in a law firm. The confusing part is her super conservative faith- i never quite figured out if the author is applauding her hard core conservative faith or using it for shock value... And because of that faith, i had several questions: 1. what is a super conservative doing becoming a lawyer? 2. Why bother "courting" if you are going to lead on 2 guys anyway? She agrees to court Zach (a lawyer at the firm) though still sees Vince and is "torn" between the two, not sure which she's supposed to be with. Isn't courting a decision to sse one person with the end goal being marriage? i think the author was confused... and seriously, what law firm ends up with three solid christians? and when in the world would 2 men, both interested in the same woman, work together to give her "space" and then apologize together because it was a bad move, not to mention meeting together to talk about her and pray for her? Very unbelievable and unrealistic. Not looking forward to any other books by this author.

This was an excellent book! It details the family's ordeal as their son becomes gravely ill. They show faith throughout and later find out from their son that he spent time in heaven! His simple childlike faith is an amazing example of what our faith should be like. He gives a neat glimpse into what heaven might look like and how we will interact with people when we are there. It made me want to go back and reread all those parts in the bible about heaven! This book was so easy to read. Definitely recommend it!