Okay, maybe it's a good thing I accidentally started with the second book in this series, because the first book didn't appeal to me nearly as much. I still loved Jessie (except for what she did to Evan near the end of their lemonade battle), but this was much more heavy-handed about its educational aspects than the second book was.

Also, wow, Megan is a nearly perfect person. Does she have any flaws? And no, wanting to to take a break from lemonade selling to go to the beach or have ice cream is not a flaw.

Well, I now know where the second book's $208 came from. The only question is how that money ended up in Evan's pocket.

Jessie is very clever and has finally hit on an excellent money-making idea, with the help of her mom's business and marketing book. However, if things continue like this she's going to run into the same wall Evan ran into, and her mom might even get a surprise visit or phone call from a cop. And maybe phone calls from half the parents in Jessie and Evan's fourth grade class.

Parts of this book are like a math class word problem in story form. Math was never my best subject, and word problems were particularly difficult for me to wrap my brain around. I wonder how all this math is presented in the paper version of this book. Does it look as daunting as it sounds?

Evan has learned that you need a permit to sell lemonade and that the only reason he and Jessie had gotten away with it before is because that law wasn't generally enforced in residential areas. Trying the same thing right near a bunch of shops did not go nearly as well. And Jessie has just learned why stores generally put limits on "buy X, get Y free" deals.

Jessie's math abilities come across more clearly in this book than they did in the second. It's also clearer that the author intends for her to be interpreted as autistic, although the word is never used. (I double-checked this, and the author confirmed it in an interview.)

No matter how much I searched this title, I couldn't find it. I was close to adding it manually or using the Amazon UK trick when I decided to try an author search. And even then I had to click into the author's name and look through the books linked to her.

This probably won't count for Halloween Bingo. I've gone back to the beginning of the series to see how Jessie and Evan got all that money in the first place. At the moment, Evan is still upset that he's going to have to share the same fourth grade class with his younger sister, and Jessie is still trying to figure out how to mend her relationship with her brother. Up until Evan got upset, Jessie was happy about the news that she'd share a class with him, because she figured he'd be able to help her navigate the social aspects of school, which she has trouble with.

In the second book, each chapter started with definitions of legal terms and concepts. This time around, each chapter begins with definitions of economic terms and concepts.