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    Understanding Credit
    Understanding Credit
    Understanding Credit
    Audiobook23 minutes

    Understanding Credit

    Written by Carla Mooney

    Narrated by Intuitive

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    It is easy to spend money when you have a credit card or a loan. But it is also easy to spend or borrow more than you can afford. How can you use credit responsibly? How can you avoid going into debt? Read this book to understand how credit works.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781512447781
    Author

    Carla Mooney

    Carla Mooney has written more than 70 books for children and young adults. She is an award-winning author of several books for Nomad Press, including The Chemistry of Food, The Physics of Fun, The Human Body and The Human Genome: Mapping the Blueprint of Human Life, and Globalization: Why We Care about Faraway Events. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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