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Title: The Toothpaste Millionaire Author: Jean Merrill The Toothpaste Millionaire is about how a sixth grader negro boy named Rufus Mayflower becomes a millionaire from making, as the title suggests, toothpaste! This book shows that if you have an idea, no matter how impossible, you can always give it a try. Italso tells us that when we want to do something big, it is good to have a friend, as did Rufus. It was what people thought was a very unexpected friendship, one between a negro boy and a white girl named Kate. It makes you see how atrue commercial is appreciated more by the public than one that makes the product sound better but is not necessarily true. It shows how Rufus found his fortune, although he profitted only 1cent per tube of toothpaste sold. Although Rufus made many other toothpaste companies angry, he made the customers happy, as he made their toothpaste as cheap as possible. In fact, Rufus started the toothpaste war, or the price war. Many companies folded and went bankrupt. The remaining companies had to keep lowering their prices and were very unhappy. Rufus is a very curious boy, but however, he does not like doing the same thing again, no matter how much it seems to benefit him. The Toothpaste Millionaire shows Rufus's very curious personality, and how you can never know what he will make next!