“Very short. I’m pretty short and he wasn’t much taller than me and kind of round. Not fat, not heavy, just round. Everything about him was round. Rounded shoulders, hips, arms, legs-even his head was a ball. And his haircut looked like somebody had put a large bowl on his head and cut around it with scissors.

Wild clothes. I saw a seventies show on television once and everybody had shirts with impossibly long collars and coloured patterns that looked like somebody had taken a bucket of flowers and dipped in paint and thrown it at the actors.

That was Arnold’s style.

And he had a wide, wild tie and a kind of sport coat that looked suede but was cut with wide lapels and shoulders and a narrow waist that didn’t look too good on his round body. He looked like somebody who had flunked clown school.”

I liked this description because I could clearly picture an adult about 5′ 6” with a humorous look to him.

At times this book made me feel very small, this next paragraph is an example.

“Numbers.

More numbers. Twelve times four. Forty-eight. No, not forty-eight, but…

“Four hundred and eighty thousand dollars?”

“Yes””

This paragraph made me feel like that because I have an account on Triond publishing site, and I have made about $1.50 so far, and the kid in this book has $480,000.00! It really makes me think about how much people can make from the stock market.

This book was a short read; it only took me about 1.5 hrs. This book made me think of how rewarding hard work can be. One thing that surprised me was the lack of personality of the parents; I couldn’t get a good picture from the descriptions, so I just imagined them as the parents from the comic book Calvin and Hobbes. I liked the way the author decided to twist the story at the end and have the main character sponsor a wrestler and have him protect Arnold from a person who wants to take over the small lawn-moving business. I thought that the story was a bit unreasonable with the amounts of money the kid makes because it is unlikely that the two or three stocks you invest in with go from 40 cents to 50 dollars in just 5 days.

I believe that the main character was portrayed as a kid who is new in the money making business, someone who starts with very little and turns it into a large amount of money. If the author was trying to get a message across to readers it would be that; anyone can make money and be successful if they put their mind to it.

I recommend this book to someone who likes kids getting lucky and making lots of money.