Novel Context:

Money Hungry was published in 2001, Sharon wrote the book because she grew up in a rough part of the town. This book is a contemporary reading not just because it was published in 2001 but because of the style that the writer uses. They writer Sharon Flake used the same context as we would still use in today's world also a long with some of the slang we use today. 

Novel Popularity:  The Novel Money Hungry is sold on various different sites including Barnes and Noble and also including Amazon, I couldn't find the novel popularity part but the publisher is also the author Sharon Flake. I Believe her being Sharon Flake and she has written other outstanding selling books that those people who have read those books also would want to read this book. 

                                                                                                                     Book Summary

Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is starved for money. She will do just about almost anything legal to get her hands on the almighty dollar--wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, clean houses. She is obsessed. She is driven. She is afraid. Memories of being homeless, sleeping in the streets, and eating handouts keep Raspberry's eye on the only prize that matters to her: cold, hard cash. When the green stuff greases her palm, she gets comfort from feeling its crinkly paper power. And, when money is your best friend, there's more to do than hold it. Raspberry kisses her cash. She smells it. She loves it. Even money can't answer the questions that keep Raspberry awake at night. Will she and Momma ever move out of the projects? What did Ja'nae do with the two hundred bucks Raspberry loaned her? And what's really going on with Momma and that rich doctor? A haunting story of greed and forgiveness by the award-winning author of The Skin I'm In, this unforgettable novel will keep you glued to every page. 

Money hungry is a book that keeps you on your feet thinking whats going to happen next each page you turn. Raspberry living in poverty brings something different each day whether is cleaning at the local old people home to coming home and having your TV stolen out of your apartment. Raspberry also had around $200 dollars thrown out her window after she got in an arguement with her mother.

Literary Devices & Theme:

Literary Devices: Characterization, use of dialect, First Person

Theme: Poverty, Survival, Determination, Greed 



Setting Visualized: 

Raspberry and her mom lived in a ghetto apartment complex which ended up getting broken into losing and ended with them losing their possessions.