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 "Goods and Services" (9781477724156) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.