Bank (eBook)

Emma Quigley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
256 Seiten
Little Island Books (Verlag)
978-1-912417-13-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Action-packed and funny story about the rise and fall of a bank set up by schoolfriends.

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Set up a bank. Lend money to schoolmates. Charge high interest rates. Sounds like a plan. With sure-fire investments like a dating app and performing piglets, our lunch-break bankers are on a roll. Fast-paced and hilarious, this book is worth its weight in gold. Set in a rural secondary school, this is the hilarious story of a bunch of pupils who decide to pool their savings and set up a bank to lend money to their schoolmates. They have no trouble finding customers and before long they are rolling in cash. When they are asked by a pair of supersmart techy sisters to invest in their dating app, it looks like they can’t possibly lose, and soon schoolmates want to deposit money with them as well.The whole thing starts to unravel all too soon when the app breaks down; a video project they have invested in involving performing piglets goes down the pan; and the local gangster family takes far too much interest in their doings. As the bank comes crashing down and the money starts to melt away, the lads are desperate to rescue their emergency stash, only to find that one of their group has cleverly hidden it in a not-so-clever place. Fast-paced and hilarious, this book is worth its weight in gold.

Rezensionen

A real strength in the book is the dialogue. It fizzes with energy, and Quigley rolls out typical teenage banter with a skill that makes it seem effortless. Each chapter bursts with imaginative characters, and draws on the reality of those school days where everyone of note has a nickname, often gleaned from a single event or trait that they will never be allowed to outgrow … The similarities with the banking crisis are more than just plot-related. There is also the attitude of the participants, the greed and the apathy, that sense of forging onward without considering the consequences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2018
• Verlagsort: Dublin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Schlagworte: School, Business, Banking, Money, Finance, Entrepreneurship
• ISBN-10: 1-912417-13-8 / 1912417138
• ISBN-13: 978-1-912417-13-1 / 9781912417131