{"id":107,"date":"2012-05-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-02-23T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:40:08","slug":"lias-guide-to-winning-the-lottery-by-keren-david-fiction-teens-money-fiscal-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery, by Keren David (book review) – teens, money, fiscal mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookOooh… winning 8 million pounds in the lottery at age 16!
\nThat’s over 12 million US dollars<\/a> – in a lump sum!
\nLia has so many plans for that money…
\ntoo bad that everyone else seems to have plans for it, too.<\/p>\n

Yes, in the U.K., 16-year-olds can buy lottery tickets (it’s 18 to 21 in US states<\/a> which hold a lottery).
\nYes, the winner’s proceeds are deposited in the bank all at once.
\nYes, Lia is sure that everything will be wonderful now…<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, or would you hire impartial financial advisors?<\/p>\n

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<\/i> (my review<\/a>) and Almost True<\/i> (my review<\/a>); book 3 in that series, Another Life<\/i>, arrives in the USA in October 2012.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery \/ Keren David. Frances Lincoln Books, 2012. [author’s website<\/a>] \u00a0 [book website<\/a>] \u00a0 \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: If her mum would just shut up, Lia could hear the lottery numbers announced. At the internet caf\u00e9, the teen learns that she did indeed win a huge jackpot! Now all her troubles are over\u2026until the new problems begin.<\/p>\n

And just who should revive her from her fainting spell at the internet caf\u00e9 but the mysterious and handsome Raf, whom she\u2019s 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\u2019ll do with all that lovely money\u2026 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.<\/p>\n

The lottery people assign her a financial adviser and a personal banker as her winnings are paid all at once, there\u2019s a big press conference, and suddenly Lia is super-popular at school. Her parents keep saying \u201cwe won the lottery\u201d \u2013 why don\u2019t 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\u2019s money, thankyouverymuch.<\/p>\n

\n

Her pal Jack bought her the lottery ticket as a birthday gift, so his mum thinks he\u2019s entitled to half the money \u2013 Jack just wants a motorcycle, never mind that he can\u2019t get a license until he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

When Shaz says that she can\u2019t accept anything from Lia because her faith states that gambling is immoral, Lia is a bit shocked \u2013 can money change friendship so much?
\nWhy is Raf trying to keep that suave gentleman from talking to Lia?
\nCan Jack\u2019s mum really sue Lia for a share of the winnings?
\nWhy isn\u2019t Natasha home from that party yet and who\u2019s the threatening voice on the phone?<\/p>\n

Chapter headings of keen advice for lottery winners contrast vividly with Lia\u2019s comical rush to make the most of her lottery experience, despite everyone\u2019s efforts to help her. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oooh… winning 8 million pounds in the lottery at age 16! 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,125,5,118,32,18,44,46,43,36,39,31,132,15,9,21,57,35,3],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-blogathon2012","tag-coping","tag-economics","tag-england","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-independence","tag-love","tag-non-us-author","tag-personal-finance","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}