Finders, Keepers

By Elizabeth Crary

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943990386
• ISBN13: 9780943990385
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 7

Customer Reviews

Lets the reader make choices about honesty and peer pressure

In this story, two boys find a wallet containing money and the owner's identification. They have to decide whether to keep the money or turn the wallet in. The reader takes the role of one of the boys. The book deals not only with honesty, but with peer pressure. The boy's friend urges him to keep some of the money. There are several points along the way when the reader must make a decision. That decision determines how the story unfolds. Even after using some of the money, the reader has a chance to try to rectify his action. I liked this because children and adolescents often make impulsive mistakes and need to talk about how you dig yourself out. This book is part of the Decision is Yours series, a great group of interactive decision-making books. I would recommend this and the other books for individual children and younger adolescents as well as for schools. I can relate to this story from the point of view of the person who dropped his wallet. Twice in the past year, I misplaced my wallet and each time, someone turned it in with all the money and credit cards intact. Hooray for human decency!