"Answers basic questions students ask when learning about financial skills needed for adulthood, including borrowing money through mortgages, car loans, college loans, and credit cards"--Provided by publisher.

"If you would know the value of money" -- Interest : it can swallow you -- Applying for a loan -- Big-ticket borrowing -- Credits cards -- Other ways to borrow -- The "debt monster" and married couples -- Taming the "debt monster".