![]() They struck a deal to become business partners, but then Mrs. Z acting as mediator, Greg and Maura admitted they admired each other’s work. Z’s science class when he accused her of stealing his idea. Things came to blows, literally, when Maura clocked him on his nose in Mr. He soon learned that his nemesis and neighbor, Maura Shaw, was producing them. After all, wasn’t school encouraging reading? He made three editions of his Chunky Comics before one of his classmates brought him a copy, suspiciously similar to his own format, called the Lost Unicorn. Then Greg got an idea he considered foolproof: he would manufacture pocket-sized comic books. Davenport, called him to her office and told him he wasn’t permitted to sell toys, candy, or gum to the students. Then, with his mother’s credit card, he placed an order with a novelty toy company, which he also sold on school property. The next day he started selling candy and gum on the playground. A number of arms went up and Greg immediately started thinking about all those extra quarters. ![]() He asked his teacher to borrow fifty cents, but she declined and instead asked the class if anyone had two quarters to lend to Greg. ![]() ![]() One day at the end of his fifth-grade year, he realized that he had left his lunch on the counter at home and was fifty cents short of the cost of a lunch at the cafeteria. Although he was good at baseball, soccer, painting and drawing, his goal was to be not rich, but superrich. Even as a preschooler, Greg Kenton was fascinated by money and would do any odd job to add to his stash. ![]()
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