Barbara Diggs

A basic overview of financial literacy with some techniques for managing income and expenses. Diggs points out that in a 2023 survey, Gen Z respondents got only about 25% of the basic questions about financial literacy correct. She certainly addresses a need—but she does it in a superficial and drearily conventional way that will stir few teen readers into making any major changes in their financial practices.

so I know you are eggs. Sunny side up, salmonella-scrambled, salsa-slathered, over-hard yellow-white discs fried in bacon grease until the edges curl like wispy brown lace. Your dad was the original egg man, eating five every day, insisting you ate at least three. One slurry night on somebody’s basement couch, you mumbled into my neck that you didn’t even like eggs, just learned to choke them down because it was easier and now you couldn’t stop.

Barbara Diggs | The Children’s Book Review Although the United States is riddled with division these days, there’s one thing we can all agree on: nobody’s going to forget about the year 2020 anytime soon. From the coronavirus pandemic to the massive nationwide protests to a conflict-ridden presidential election, we are keenly aware that we are, every day, living through history. We’re right smack in the middle of a watershed era; we just don’t know the name of it yet–or the outcome.