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Money Hungry
Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is always scheming about ways to make money. She's starved for the green stuff, and will do just about anything legal to get it-wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, and clean houses. She is obsessed with making money, having money, smelling money, and touching money. Raspberry is determined that she and her momma will never be homeless...more
Paperback, 188 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Jump At The Sun
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Jul 01, 2009
Eva Leger
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
younger kids & pre-teens
Recommended to Eva by:
read the sequel after finding it somewhere
Shelves:
b-urban-fiction
I started Money Hungry this morning because I read Begging For Change a few weeks/months ago. I wasn't aware at the time that BFC was the sequel to MH. This is an extremely fast book to read. It took me about an hour. I would hand this to a kid that is reluctant to read in a second.
I think Flake does a great job of portraying Raspberry and her mother, along with the girls friends. I remember similiar feelings from my young teen years even though I didn't have the same problems as Raspberry has...more
I think Flake does a great job of portraying Raspberry and her mother, along with the girls friends. I remember similiar feelings from my young teen years even though I didn't have the same problems as Raspberry has...more
Lexile Range: 650L
Book Review: Once again, Sharon Flake has written another phenominal novel. "Money Hungry" teaches a lesson to everyone, "money cannot buy happiness, but family and friends can." This book connects to teenagers and even adults. I recommend this book to teenagers 13+.
Plot Summary: Thirteen year old, Rasberry and her mother live together in a house in the "projects." At school, Rasberry always gets bullied for being poor, but her three bestfriends, Zora, Ja'nae, and Mai always s...more
Book Review: Once again, Sharon Flake has written another phenominal novel. "Money Hungry" teaches a lesson to everyone, "money cannot buy happiness, but family and friends can." This book connects to teenagers and even adults. I recommend this book to teenagers 13+.
Plot Summary: Thirteen year old, Rasberry and her mother live together in a house in the "projects." At school, Rasberry always gets bullied for being poor, but her three bestfriends, Zora, Ja'nae, and Mai always s...more
Grade/interest level: 6
Reading level: 5.9
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Main Characters: Raspberry Hill, Ja’nae, Zora, Momma
Setting: In the projects, at school, on the streets
POV: First person
Summary: Raspberry Hill is a 13 year old girl who has had to deal with homelessness in the past and is doing everything she can not to go back to that life. She is obsessed with making money to help her family out with the end goal of not becoming homeless again and getting out of the project. She will do any si...more
Reading level: 5.9
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Main Characters: Raspberry Hill, Ja’nae, Zora, Momma
Setting: In the projects, at school, on the streets
POV: First person
Summary: Raspberry Hill is a 13 year old girl who has had to deal with homelessness in the past and is doing everything she can not to go back to that life. She is obsessed with making money to help her family out with the end goal of not becoming homeless again and getting out of the project. She will do any si...more
Dominique Gibson
10/27/12
P#1
Money Hungry
This book is about a thirteen year old girl named Raspberry Hill and her mother. Raspberry is known to be obsessed with money and will do anything to get it. Raspberry and her mother use to be homeless, and when they finally got a place in the projects, she promised herself she would never go back to being homeless again. She started to make money the best she can, saving and never spending it.
In this book Raspberry goes through a lot of life challenges w...more
10/27/12
P#1
Money Hungry
This book is about a thirteen year old girl named Raspberry Hill and her mother. Raspberry is known to be obsessed with money and will do anything to get it. Raspberry and her mother use to be homeless, and when they finally got a place in the projects, she promised herself she would never go back to being homeless again. She started to make money the best she can, saving and never spending it.
In this book Raspberry goes through a lot of life challenges w...more
In this book “Money Hungry”. Raspberry an 13 year old girl that is from the Projects, has nothing but big dream ands goals. Raspberry got her name because of the red hair that she inherited from her father. She loved to keep her time occupied to keep her from going under so much stress when she gets home. Although, she is not that fortunate she does try to save up her money so that one day she can leave the hood with her mom, and live the life that she always dreamed of. It’s not as easy as you...more
“Money Hungry” by Sharon G. Flake is a novel about a girl named Raspberry who lives in the projects with her mother. Raspberry is addicted to making money because she does not want to live on the streets again, and sells items at school or cleans houses for some extra cash. She also finds out that her mother is dating her best friend’s father, who happens to be a doctor. Things take a turn for the worse when there is a break it at their apartment, forcing them to have to live on the streets, and...more
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This thirteen year old raspberry hill loves money and shes always trying to find a way to earn money. All the time its that she thinks about money money and more money every body thinks shes money hungry even her mom and friends think its getting out of control she will go from cleaning gross houses to selling sickening candy at school that makes people rely sick but she doesn't care as long as she gets money. she has stashes and stashes of money all over her room 600 dollars in saving and has...more
To me Money Hungry was one of the books that made me visualize things. It made me have a whole different perspective of how the character lived. It is not the regular middle class girl that lived in a house or apartment. It completely the opposite. The main character Raspberry lived in the projects and in the book it often refers to the memory of Raspberry living on the streets. I was able to imagine that kind of flashback. Reading the story made me realize how some people actually lived like Ra...more
Nov 01, 2009
Danny Araujo
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
$ lovers
Recommended to Danny by:
myself
Money hungry is about 13 year old girl who has gone through so much in her life that she starts to be greedy about money. Raspberry lives with her momma in the projects, she has always lived there. They once had to live in the streets when things got tough. And when people promised to invite them in and help them up to there feet, they end up kicking Ras and her mom out and they had to live in the streets again. In this story, Raspberry and her mom are back in the projects. Ras is having to deal...more
Dear Reader,
If you ever thought about what it feels like to struggle with money problems? This book describes what it feels like to be in the shoes of a young girl that is constantly in the middle of an accusation involving with dinero/money. Therefore in this book Money Hungry By Sharon G. Flake talks about Raspberry and her mom going through a struggle in life.
One of the struggles that Raspberry faces is how she has to sell pencils and work for herself just to eat lunch. Most of which Raspbe...more
If you ever thought about what it feels like to struggle with money problems? This book describes what it feels like to be in the shoes of a young girl that is constantly in the middle of an accusation involving with dinero/money. Therefore in this book Money Hungry By Sharon G. Flake talks about Raspberry and her mom going through a struggle in life.
One of the struggles that Raspberry faces is how she has to sell pencils and work for herself just to eat lunch. Most of which Raspbe...more
Money Hungry is a book about a girl named Raspberry. Raspberry is a girl who only lives with her mother in a house. Money Hungry is the other part of begging for change. It is actually the first book. I am into these books because these books are daily life books. These things happen all the time around the world, parents divorcing, fights, poor people, rich people..etc and I want to know what people decide to do. Raspberry wants to make money to get away from living in the streets again, but th...more
The narrator of this story of poverty and plot is an thirteen-year-old named Raspberry Hill. Her mom named her after the fruit because of her red hair, red eyebrows “and enough freckles on my face that you can play connect the dots.” Raspberry and her mom live in the projects “with gangbangers and junkies” but they try to make the best of it. You know about homelessness? Your mother works and attends school, but it's still not enough. Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is consumed with having mone...more
This book is the best book anuyone can read. I didnt have the paper but i can relate to the book. its about how a 13 year old girl who loves money. she will do anything for it. sell old candy wash cars dell pencials clean other people homes. and all tshe did it for was for her and her mom not to live on the streets like they did before. they had no family and friends to live with. they stayed in a junk yard in a van. thats why rasberry will do naything for what she wants. i can feel how is in th...more
A Thirteen Year old girl, named Raspberry, is always starving – but not for food - for money. Everyday, all she loves to do is talk about money and will do anything, even the most dangerous things to get it, for money. Raspberry gets to go to school and meet new friends but all her yapping about money is just giving her friends a headache. In the book Money Hungry you’ll see how deep a 13 year old can go for money and all of the troubles it’ll end up causing her, but we don’t know who is right -...more
So, I'm siting this on the last day :D I'm so happy I'm going to see everyone soon :) and, so about the book : I didn't like it. Well , I guess it's not the book it's more of the character. She's too, greedy, and too annoying. And in the end, there's BARELY. A change. I don't really like it. Like there's not much to say.othe author, doesn't use as many details as I wished she did.
They're also to 'hood lol. Like she tries to make it look too gangster! Like she's always doing this at all given ch...more
They're also to 'hood lol. Like she tries to make it look too gangster! Like she's always doing this at all given ch...more
Nov 23, 2008
Zarinahh2012
added it
A book called “Money Hungry” was another great book that I read. This book was about a girl named Rasberry who was trying to make all the money that she could. She was trying to make money because her mom was struggling and they in danger of having to live on the street. I am going to tell you why I liked this book and why you should read this book.
I think Money Hungry was a great book. One reason why I liked this book was because it taught me to always appreciate what you got. If you don’t yo...more
I think Money Hungry was a great book. One reason why I liked this book was because it taught me to always appreciate what you got. If you don’t yo...more
This book was about a girl named Rasberry, who was poor and tried to sell thins at school everyday to make some money. Such as decorated pencils, food, and earsers etc. rasberry has an internal conflict which is, she was born poor and hugry.
I can not connect to this book because I am notpoor and I do not sell stuff at school to make monet to pay the rent. Thats why my parents got a job and they arecommited to there job so that they would not get fired.
I'll give this boo a 5 because this book...more
I can not connect to this book because I am notpoor and I do not sell stuff at school to make monet to pay the rent. Thats why my parents got a job and they arecommited to there job so that they would not get fired.
I'll give this boo a 5 because this book...more
The tone's of this novel is life-struggle, fear, desperation, hope, confusion, encouraging, uncertain and more. Raspberry Hill, a thirteen-year-old girl living in the projects, would do anything legal for money. She washes cars, sells rotten candy, skips lunch, and cleans strangers' houses and more just to keep cash coming into her pockets. Raspberry is always trying to think of a way to make a dollar, and when she can't sleep at night she'll grab some of the cash she made and will count it unti...more
Money Hungry is a great book that I had been looking forward to for a long while. And let me tell you it was worth the wait!! The book itself was not very long was it was very intense. Throughout the book, the protanogist Raspberry Hill is talked bad about because she was "Money Hungry". However, everyone did not understand why Raspberry sold pencils, chocolate etc. Raspberry had been through some diffucult times, times in which she lived on the streets,her and her mother. Being traumatized of h...more
The book Money Hungry is about a girl named Raspberry Hill. she's a girl who loves money, she puts money before everything including her friends and family. She will do just about anything to make her money, in the book she washes cars, sells rotten candy, skips lunch, and cleans houses just to make money. The reason she was so obsessed with money is because at one point Raspberry was homeless. She says how she never wants to go back there agen and she will do just about anything to make sure sh...more
I picked this book up from the library. I liked this book because the main character, Raspberry, in a way, remined me a little bit of myself. The authors style and writing was very unique because she wrote so the reader could understand and relate to what she was saying. The author, Sharon G. FLake, probably wanted you to take away the lesson that you could love and what something in life, but u shouldn't go farther than intended to get it. I would recommend this book to anyone who lets prized p...more
Money Hungry is about a girl who is really poor and lives in the projects. Raspberry and her mother try everything to make some money because they have always lived in the projects or on the streets and Rasp is afraid that they will be kicked out on the streets again. Raspberry even sells different stuff in her school- like pencils, erasers, etc. Her room is full of jars of dollars and change.When her mother falls inlove with Raspberry's best friend Zora tension appears between them. When her m...more
(FROM JACKET)Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is starved for money. She will do just about anything legal to get her hands on the almighty dollar-wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, clean houses. She is obsessed. She is driven. She is afraid. Memories of being homeless, sleeping in the streets, and eating handouts keep Raspberry's eye on the only prize that matters to her: cold, hard cash. When the green stuff greases her palm, she gets comfort from feeling its crinkly paper power. And, wh...more
Money Hungry is a really great book! I absolutely loved it! It is about a girl who loves money so she saves up a lot of money in her room and makes money with her friends by doing different activities.So one day her friend stole some money from her grandfather to by her boyfriend a gift and she wrote about it in her diary and her grandfather read her diary and told the parent of the girl who likes money that she stole his money when it was really hos grandaughter.So then her mother was really ma...more
"Money Hungry" is about a thirteen year old named Raspberry Hill. She lives in the projects with her mom and they are in a financial struggle - they used to live on the street. Rasperry is always going on and on about how much she wants money, but it's understandable because of how she fears going back on the street without shelter, food, and all those other neccesities.
I thought this was a decent book. I didn't really particularly love it, but the message that it sends is really important. The...more
I thought this was a decent book. I didn't really particularly love it, but the message that it sends is really important. The...more
The book money hungry is about a girl name Raspberry Hill who would do anything for money. She is thirteen years old and she have been homeless before.So she makes money and put it to the side for when she needs it. She would sale you broke or used things also candy or some sort of food that is old and rotten. She got in trouble a couple of times with her principal for saling some of her thinhs in school because her so called customers were complaining about there stomack. What i learned from th...more
Like other Sharon Flake books I have read Money Hungry was a great book. I felt that it reached out to teenagers having a hard time, and wanting nothing more that to have money to support themselves and others. Money Hungry was one of those books that you just don't see everyday. What I mean by that is that you don't read a book like that and learn a lesson. At least you wouldn't think you would. Money Hungry tells teens that you can never give up on your dreams, because once you do you'll be so...more
Nov 07, 2007
..!!Chantel's WoRlD!!
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
everyone
this is the greatest book writen by Sharon G. Flake it talks about this gurl raspberry whom is almost up 4 anything to get her hands on money to rent this new apartment.
Sep 30, 2011
Nikia Coles
is currently reading it
Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake published 2001. Money Hungry is a nonfiction . Ms.Sharon G. Flake book won the coretta Scott King award. This book has 188 pages . It took me about 2 weeks to read Money Hungry. The main characters are Raspberry , Miss.Hill , Ja'nae , Mai , Zora. The Setting of Money Hungry is in the projects , an Her School.
The protagonist IS Ms.hill. Raspberry has to decide how shes going to make her next amout of money. Also a problem in the story is when Ja'nae and Raspberry...more
The protagonist IS Ms.hill. Raspberry has to decide how shes going to make her next amout of money. Also a problem in the story is when Ja'nae and Raspberry...more
Jan 25, 2010
Lajahnee
added it
this boook was really good i like how she ended up moving into that nice house i dont remember if that was in money hungry or begging for change i kno her dad was am junky but if i were hur i mwould go look for my dad to and i was very mad at her wen she took that money from her friend i could have jumped in the book and i was yelling dont do it the whole tim i like books like this i think she should make a book with all the other girls point of view i mhope she leareed her lesson amd stop being...more
Sharon G. Flake is the author of five books, The Skin I'm In (1998), Money Hungry (2002), Begging for Change (2003), Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories About Boys and the Girls in Their Lives (2004), Bang! (Sept. 2005), and her latest novel The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street (2007).
Her work is used in public and private schools around the nation, from elementary to high school, and...more
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