Waiting on Wednesday: Millionaires for a Month by Stacy McAnulty

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Millionaires for a Month by Stacy McAnulty. 304 p. Random House Children's Books/ Penguin Random House, September 1, 2020. 9780593175255.

Waiting on Wednesday features Millionaires for a Month by Stacy McAnulty. Fans of the author's The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl and The World Ends in April will cheer the arrival of Millionaires for a Month. The publisher asks: How would you spend five million dollars in 30 days? A billionaire’s wallet, a bizarre challenge, and an unlikely friendship send two kids on a wild adventure. 

Felix Rannells and Benji Porter were never supposed to be field-trip partners. Felix is a rule follower. Benji is a rule bender. They’re not friends. And they don’t have anything to talk about. Until . . .

They find a wallet. A wallet that belongs to tech billionaire Laura Friendly. They’re totally going to return it-but not before Benji “borrows” twenty dollars to buy hot dogs. Because twenty dollars is like a penny to a billionaire, right?

But a penny has value. A penny doubled every day for thirty days is $5,368,709.12! So that’s exactly how much money Laura Friendly challenges Felix and Benji to spend. They have thirty days. They can’t tell anyone. And there are LOTS of other rules. But if they succeed, they each get ten million dollars to spend however they want.