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Tabitha Ruth Wexler, also known as Turtle
Turtle Wexler is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives in Sunset Towers with her parents, Dr. Jake and Grace Wexler. Dr. Wexler's office is in the lobby of Sunset Towers. Her sister is Angela and she is engaged to Dr. Denton Deere, another player in the Westing game. Turtle wears her hair in a braid and everyone in Sunset Towers is aware of her painful kicks given in return for her braid. While Turtle is only 13 years old, she is interested in the stock market and the Westing Paper Products Company stock. She is partnered with Flora Baumbach in the Westing game. Her keen level of concentration and attention to detail helped Turtle win the game. The Stock Market Do you know what the stock market is? The stock market is a place where shares of companies are traded (bought and sold). To understand the stock market, you need to know these words.
People can buy and sell shares of different stock. You should buy at a low price and sell at a high price. If the company is doing bad and you own shares, you should sell them fast. If the company is doing well, you can buy more to make more money. When you sell your stock in a company, you give up your ownership of that company. The trading floor is where the stock is actually traded. On the trading floor, brokers call the traders to buy or sell shares of different companies, depending on what the people want for their brokerage accounts. Any day you can check in the newspaper what price the stock of a certain company is trading for and how many shares were traded by looking at the company's stock symbol. These will be added to the sources page when i get there) SOURCES
Hobby Handbooks - Birdwatching, by Rob Hume, 1993
National Audubon Society First Field Guide Birds, by Scholastic, 1998
The Inside Track Library The Stock Market, by Nancy Dunnan, 1990
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