Designed to help students gain a sense of financial realities before college, this workbook on personal finance will introduce students to finances through hands-on activities. Writing checks, balancing a checkbook, career goals, savings accounts, major purchases, taxes, stocks and bonds, insurance and other practical matters are covered with conversational text, crossword puzzles, review questions, and reproduced forms for students to fill in. 78 reproducible pages, softcover. Upper-Middle Grades.