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The Growing Fortune
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Carrier Press
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the morning Alex turns thirteen, the birthday gift is not a gift. It is a single sheet of paper, and it changes everything.
The envelope holds the paperwork for a custodial investment account Alex's parents opened the day Alex was born, quietly growing for thirteen years inside something called an ETF. Alex has never earned a dollar of it, never heard the words compound interest used about real money, and has no idea that one sheet of paper is about to turn into the most important lesson of a lifetime.
What follows is a coming-of-age story told in the language of money. Alex learns how markets rise and fall, why patience pays more than panic, and how a single good habit, repeated for years, becomes a fortune. There is a first real mistake that costs more than allowance. There is a rival whose shortcuts look a lot smarter until they do not. There is an ethical choice that has nothing to do with math and everything to do with character. And there is a market storm that tests whether Alex has learned the one thing the account was meant to teach.
The Growing Fortune is a novel about investing for readers who are old enough to want their own answers and young enough that the answers still feel like an adventure. It teaches the real ideas, diversification, rebalancing, due diligence, the long game, inside a story about growing up, earning trust, and deciding what kind of person you want to be with money and without it.
For young readers, the parents who want to start the conversation, and anyone who wishes someone had explained all of this at thirteen. Includes a plain-language glossary and a short list of trusted resources for readers who want to keep going.
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