Buying and Selling is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.2.8 and Literacy.L.2.4c. Full-page color photographs with narrative nonfiction text help readers will follow a day-in-the-life of running a small business, gaining an understanding of investments, profits, and goods and services. This book should be paired with "e;Goods and Services"e; (9781477724156) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.