Hey, Who Shrunk My Dollar? [eBook only]

Hey, Who Shrunk My Dollar? — An Ellie & Donnie Adventure in the Little Scoop Co. Series

What if the candy bar didn't get more expensive — what if your dollar got smaller?

Last summer, the same candy bar cost $1.29. This summer, it costs $1.79. A movie ticket your grandparents paid $3 for now runs $13. The candy bar didn't get better. The movie didn't get longer. So what actually happened? Ellie and Donnie set out to figure out where the dollar's buying power went — and why two thoughtful people can look at the same prices and reach completely different conclusions about why.

Ellie thinks it's mostly about money — the government printed trillions of new dollars, the Fed kept rates near zero, and that flood of money made each dollar worth less. Donnie thinks it's mostly about supply — broken supply chains, war in Ukraine, oil prices, and companies posting record profits during the chaos. Both of them are pointing to real things that happened. They disagree about which one mattered most.

This book takes on inflation honestly, balanced, and actually fun. No team to root for. No villain to blame. Just real history, real mechanisms, and the trade-offs that almost every adult news anchor leaves out — written for kids old enough to notice that the simple stories don't quite add up.

📚 What's inside:

• What inflation actually is — and why "the dollar shrank" is more accurate than "stores got greedy"
• A brief tour of inflation history: Roman coin debasement, Weimar Germany, the Great Depression, 1970s stagflation, and the 2021–2023 spike
• The four real drivers of inflation — demand-pull, cost-push, money supply, and expectations — each with a real-world example
• Two honest views on what caused the recent inflation, written so a reader can argue either side fairly
• The two main toolkits for slowing inflation, and the trade-offs each one comes with
• A "You decide" finale that hands the reader the question instead of the answer

📚 Great for: Ages 11–14 · Grades 6–8 · Curious kids, homeschool families, civics and economics classrooms, and dinner-table conversations that actually go somewhere.

What's included:

• Interactive digital ebook (reads in any browser — no app needed)
• Built-in vocabulary glossary — tap any term for an instant definition
• Unique license key for instant access
• Lifetime access — read it as many times as you want

✨ Part of the Little Scoop Co. series — the Double Scoop tier for ages 11–14, where the topics get more substantive and the tradeoffs get more honest. Look for "Who Ate My Paycheck?" on taxes and take-home pay, plus the Single Scoop titles "Who Ate My Ice Cream" and "Who Owns the Ice Cream Parlor?" for younger readers.

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