An Introduction to The Lemonade War《檸檬水大戰》介紹

兒童財商小說《檸檬水大戰》于2007 年出版，這本書在美國可謂是家喻戶曉，曾獲羅德島青少年圖書獎、北卡羅來納州兒童圖書獎。這本書在故事情節扣人心弦的同時，還能夠給人帶來豐富的理財知識。

The Lemonade War is about friendship， 1）sibling rivalry， honesty，mathematics and lemonade.

This book takes place over a summer vacation from school. Evanshould be enjoying the last few 2）scorching days of summer， but he justgot the news that his 3）brainiac younger sister Jessie is not only skippingthe third grade， but she’s going to be in his actual class. Now everyone willknow his sister is smarter than he is. WAY smarter. So that’s it. He’s done.He’s not going to hang out with Jessie， not going to talk to Jessie， andhe definitely won’t run a lemonade stand with Jessie， just to give her thechance to show off how good she is at math.

Jessie， on the other hand， is over the moon that she’ll be in the sameclass as Evan. She and Evan have always been really good friends， aswell as brother and sister. She can’t understand why he’s suddenly beingso mean to her， or why he’s refusing to have a lemonade stand with her.It’s a puzzle， Jessie knows， and she should be good at puzzles. “But it wasa puzzle about feelings， and Jessie knew that feelings were her weakestsubject.”

The conflict between them grows until it 4）erupts into a lemonadesellingcompetition — whoever earns $100 first wins， AND keeps boththeir earnings. Evan is determined to win no matter what， even if it mightmean cheating， except that even he wouldn’t actually stoop to stealing hissister’s money.

So who won then？ Try read it.

1） sibling n. 兄弟姐妹

2） scorching adj. 酷熱的

3） brainiac n. 聰明的人

4） erupt v. 爆發

《檸檬水大戰》是一個關于友誼、兄弟姐妹之間的競爭、誠實、數學和檸檬水的故事。

故事發生在暑假期間。埃文本應該很享受最后幾天的炎炎夏日，但卻得知他聰明的妹妹杰西不僅要跳過三年級，而且將和他同在一個班上課。現在，每個人都會知道他的妹妹比他聰明。聰明得多！現在就是這樣。他完蛋了。他不會和杰西一起出去玩，不會和杰西說話，也絕對不會和杰西一起經營檸檬水攤，只給她機會展示她的數學水平。

另一方面，杰西很高興她將與埃文同班。她和埃文一直是非常好的朋友，也是好兄妹。她不明白為什么他突然對她這么刻薄，或者為什么拒絕和她一起經營檸檬水攤。杰西知道，這是一個謎題，而她擅長解謎題。“但這是一個關于情感的謎題，杰西知道情感是她最薄弱的科目。”

他們之間的沖突愈演愈烈，最后演變成一場檸檬水銷售比賽——誰先賺到100 美元，誰就贏，而且他們兩個人的收入都要歸勝利者所有。埃文決心無論如何都要贏，即使這可能意味著作弊，但即使是他，也不會真正地偷妹妹的錢。

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