Grandpa's Grocery Store

Follow the crazy adventures of a young Turkish girl as she learns the grocery business-and about people and life-in her Grandpa's Grocery Store.

Here's how it all started. "What will you be when you grow up?" This is the question grown-ups ask the most often. I had to find a satisfactory answer. I had to find the right job. That day I made my decision. Being a grocer was for me. Five minutes later, I was in front of my grandpa. I didn't want to wait. Becoming a grocer as an adult wouldn't be such a feat but becoming one as a kid: now that would be a real success. "I want to be a grocer, Grandpa! Do you need an apprentice?"

Grandpa's Grocery Store, by award-winning Turkish writer Sermin Yasar, tells the story of a little girl who loves spending time as an apprentice at her grandpa's corner grocery. Customers in her village count on and expect personal service at the store and she tries to provide it. The store becomes a learning ground for our little apprentice whose overzealous, can-do spirit puts her in many awkward situations. Filled with good intentions and determination, she often creates mayhem! She "invents" cherry soda, attempts to "rob the rich to help the poor," and collects crazy care packages for starving children.

Lessons-learned. "The problem with the world is that adults are everywhere," she observes. So she keeps a notebook with all of the lessons she learns at the grocery store-and her notes become a valuable map for young readers of her book.

Full of humor and "helpful" lessons on:

• Running a business
• Human relations
• Jobs and daily routines
• Innovative thinking and laughter

If you liked chapter books for kids such as Amelia Bedelia Means Business, Wednesday Wilson Gets Down to Business, or J.D. and the Great Barber Battle, your young reader is sure to love Sermin Yasar's Grandpa's Grocery Store.