The story
It starts with one hot day and one big idea. Two neighbourhood kids decide to open an Ice Pop Shop — and quickly find out that running a business takes a lot more than a cooler and a dream.
There are flavours to invent, prices to set, and profits to count — plus disagreements to work through and setbacks that make quitting look easy.
Chapter by chapter, readers watch Starr and Curtis set goals, create a budget, divide the work, and solve the kind of problems that don't have an answer key — the same skills they will use for the rest of their lives.
Written for readers in Grades 2–4, the book can also be used as a family read-aloud or a classroom novel study.