Gary's Blooming Business
Decimals
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Gary wants a new soccer ball but doesn’t have enough money. With the help of his mom and her garden, he hatches a business idea to sell her flowers in the neighborhood. The catch? He has to help his mom buy supplies and pay for her labor of growing the flowers. Dollars and cents add up quickly as Gary’s mom shows him how to calculate his business costs! As Gary quickly learns, counting change becomes a challenge when one wrong decimal can change $1 into $10!…
Katie Sharp is a writer and editor. She has written many fiction and nonfiction books, including Worms Eat Our Garbage, The History of Guitars, A Dictionary of Space, Silvia Hops Home, and Carlos Goes Camping. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Gary's Blooming Business
Katie SharpVanessa Gutierrez is a digital artist and children's book illustrator for several titles, including No Means No and Best Buddies. She is also an educational illustrator for Lexercise and designs characters for multilingual educational videos. Vanessa studied graphic design at Zulia University in Maracaibo, Venezuela. She lives in Lima, Peru.