Cover Your Assets: The Teens' Guide to Protecting Their Money and Their Stuff

by Kara McGuire

Overview

Once you've started to accumulate property and money, you're not done managing your financial life. Far from it! You still need to protect your possessions, your money, and your identity from theft. Find out what it takes and how much it will cost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780756549305
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Financial Literacy for Teens Series
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	417,419
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	1090L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 15 Years

About the Author

Kara McGuire is an award-winning personal finance writer, consumer researcher, and speaker. She writes a personal finance column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and formerly worked for the public radio program Marketplace Money. She enjoys teaching young people and parents about money. Kara lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, Matt, and children Charlotte, Teddy, and August.

Table of Contents

The basics : risk and insurance — Protecting your stuff — Protecting yourself.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2014
Gr 9 Up—Insurance, investments, loans, and interest. Finances can be confusing and overwhelming even for adults, let alone teens, but series such as this one aim to teach young people how to be smart about money. Each title is devoted to a specific topic but all cover the same basic principles of spending and saving. McGuire uses an informal voice to explain Roth IRAs, financial aid, and the stock market, sometimes coming across as trying too hard, especially when slang is awkwardly employed. The design and layout also seems to have been created with teens in mind, but the result is chaotic and visually dissonant. While all of the books contain practical tips and advice, Making Money Work has the most coherent organization of information and is thus the most usable.

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