The cast is full of personality and shows different sides of issues like addiction, romance, bullying, divorce, weight, and race. Raspberry's friends and classmates treat her money hunger differently, but they also deal with their own self-image. This book has many examples of how people perceive each other and themselves. She ropes them into her money-making schemes in the hopes of earning some security and stability. She knows the value of a dollar, though she cares more about hoarding cash than her friends do. A family crisis upended her relatively comfortable childhood, and now Raspberry and her mother are desperate to make ends meet. Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is an entrepreneur who would bend over backwards to pick up a penny. They can’t do nothing much to you, if you got a bankroll backing you up. ‘Cause if you got money, people can’t take stuff from you – not your house, or your ride, not your family. You gotta sell a lot of pencils and skip a lot of lunches to make that kinda dough. That’s why I got six hundred dollars stashed all over my room. But nickels don’t keep you off the street. Momma thinks I just got a little pocket change stashed here and there. But you can’t cash dreams in at the bank or buy bread, or pay rent with ‘em. Even now, Momma’s always dreaming about the future.
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