That's over 12 million US dollars - in a lump sum!
Lia has so many plans for that money...
too bad that everyone else seems to have plans for it, too.
Yes, in the U.K., 16-year-olds can buy lottery tickets (it's 18 to 21 in US states which hold a lottery).
Yes, the winner's proceeds are deposited in the bank all at once.
Yes, Lia is sure that everything will be wonderful now...
If you won a big lottery prize, would you hold a press conference as Lia did, or keep it quiet? Could you handle sudden wealth on your own, or would you hire impartial financial advisors?
On this Fun Friday, join Lia on a wild romp from her dreary London suburb to the top shops, as she learns some life-lessons about finance and friendship in this funny novel from Keren David, who brought us the more-serious story of Ty in When I Was Joe (my review) and Almost True (my review); book 3 in that series, Another Life, arrives in the USA in October 2012.
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Book info: Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery / Keren David. Frances Lincoln Books, 2012. [author's website] [book website] [publisher site]
My Recommendation: If her mum would just shut up, Lia could hear the lottery
numbers announced. At the internet café, the teen learns that she did indeed
win a huge jackpot! Now all her troubles are over…until the new problems begin.
And just who should revive her from her fainting spell at
the internet café but the mysterious and handsome Raf, whom she’s been eyeing
at school since he arrived at mid-term. Her best friend Shaz was in the middle
of family dinner or Lia would have gone to her house to check that last lottery
number. Eight million pounds! She dreams about what she’ll do with all that
lovely money… move to her own apartment, travel away from their boring London suburb, start living life right away
instead of wasting time in high school and university.
The lottery people assign her a financial adviser and a
personal banker as her winnings are paid all at once, there’s a big press
conference, and suddenly Lia is super-popular at school. Her parents keep
saying “we won the lottery” – why don’t they understand that Lia won, not them?
Of course some money would help bolster the family bakery business, competing
with the new superstores, but it is Lia’s money, thankyouverymuch.
Her pal Jack bought her the lottery ticket as a birthday
gift, so his mum thinks he’s entitled to half the money – Jack just wants a
motorcycle, never mind that he can’t get a license until he’s 17. Lia spreads
around the wealth a bit more, treating a limo full of school chums to a clothes
shopping spree, funding vocal lessons for 14-year-old sister Natasha. More time
with Raf would be nice, instead of him working two jobs after school.
When Shaz says that she can’t accept anything from Lia
because her faith states that gambling is immoral, Lia is a bit shocked – can money
change friendship so much?
Why is Raf trying to keep that suave gentleman from talking
to Lia?
Can Jack’s mum really sue Lia for a share of the winnings?
Why isn’t Natasha home from that party yet and who’s the
threatening voice on the phone?
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