Publisher, Listening Library (December 2005)

Greg had started looking around the cafeteria, and everywhere he looked, he saw quarters. He saw kids trading quarters for ice cream sandwiches and cupcakes and cookies at the dessert table. He saw kids over at the school store trading quarters for neon pens and sparkly pencils, and for the little decorations like rubber soccer balls and plastic butterflies to stick onto the ends of those new pencils…. There were quarters all over the place, buckets of them.

At that moment Greg’s view of school changed completely and forever. School had suddenly become the most interesting place on the planet. Because young Greg Kenton had decided that school would be an excellent place to make his fortune.

About the Author: Andrew Clements taught in the public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving East to begin a career in publishing and writing. He lives in Westborough, Massachusetts.

About the Performer: John H. Mayer is a character actor whose voice has been heard on numerous commercials, animated programs, audiobooks and narrations including E! Entertainment's Celebrity Profiles. John was a five-year Member of the Groundlings comedy theater company in Los Angeles.