Britney Makes a Budget is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.6 and Literacy.L.3.1a. Budgeting and handling money are two concepts that can be hard to understand, and readers will follow Britney as she learns the ins and outs of budgeting in this book with full-page color photographs paired with narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "My Allowance" (9781477725245) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.