Isabel's Car Wash

By Sheila Bair and Judy Stead

EIFLE Award 2009, Institute for Financial Literacy
Rutgers University, Project on Economics and Children - Book of the Month January 2009

The Nelly Longhair doll is on sale at Murphy's Toys for ten dollars. But Isabel has only fifty cents. Isabel decides to start a car wash business; she's sure she can make money. But at the hardware store she learns that her supplies will cost five dollars! If five of her friends will invest one dollar each, she'll have enough. Will Isabel be able to pay them back and have enough left over for the Nelly doll?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Release date: Mar 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9780807592885

Sheila Bair

Sheila Bair has had a long and distinguished career in finance, academia, and government. She is perhaps best known as the Chair of the FDIC during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, when she was twice named by Forbes Magazine as the second most powerful woman in the world. A lifelong advocate for strong financial regulation and consumer protections, she is the author of the New York Times bestseller Bull by the Horns, her memoir of the financial crisis, and is a frequent op-ed contributor and TV commentator, as well as author of several children's books on financial matters.

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