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February 15, 2007 - 2/15/07 – With adolescent entrepreneurs making front-page news in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, prominent libertarian activist and author Jim Lesczynski is hoping to capitalize on the trend with his debut novel, The Walton Street Tycoons. East River Press will publish the novel for young adults on February 23.
"Kids have always been intuitively business-savvy and ambitious," says Lesczynski. "From lemonade stands to paper routes, the urge to make a buck and assert our independence from our parents is a quintessential part of childhood." Today's kids are not content with nickels and dimes, however. As The Wall Street Journal recently noted, "the most gifted among them, while few in number, are driven leaders armed with sophisticated business plans, corporate attorneys and financial advisers.
They skip school to attend business meetings; they don spiffy suits; and they're fluent in the language of commerce."
The Walton Street Tycoons chronicles the friendships and misadventures of an extraordinary group of pre-teen capitalists in the fictional town of Walton, New York. The children confront the challenges of a corrupt small-town government, condescending teachers and parents, and the onset of girl trouble—all while getting rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Early reviews for The Walton Street Tycoons are enthusiastic. L. Neil Smith, four-time Prometheus Award winner and author of The Probability Broach, says The Walton Street Tycoons "has exactly the same true heart and unerring eye that we love in so many of Robert A. Heinlein's 'juveniles'—books, in truth, fully as entertaining and engrossing to adults as they are to kids—a spirit and vision perfectly suited to the 21st century."
Review copies of The Walton Street Tycoons are now available from East River Press.
Contact: Dawn Fox, Publisher, publisher ( @ ) eastriverpress dot com
