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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, August 2003
Trade Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0689863543
ISBN-13: 9780689863547
Grades: 3 - 7
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- Golden Sower Masterlist (NE)
- Land of Enchantment Children's Master List (NM)
- Maud Hart Lovelace Award Master List (MN)
- Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (FL)
- William Allen White Children's Book Award (KS)
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Description
Ernie is a twelve-year-old tycoon, always on the lookout for a fast buck. This time he stumbles onto a money-making bonanza: pet funerals. He hires Dusty to decorate the burial boxes and Tony to dig the holes, but his prize find is Swimming Pool, a tomboy who can cry on cue.
Business goes through the roof -- until Ernie loses Swimming Pool over a raise and the whole venture unravels. Here is a rollicking, fun-spirited novel about friendship, loss, business -- and how we learn to express our feelings.
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