Answer:
Lunch Money
Life Lesson for Greg and Maura:
Making money is not a means to an end.  Happiness in life does not depend on making more money per se.  Happiness depends on giving out value.  When you give out value, you will likely receive value in return.   Sometimes, the value is monetary and some other times, it is pure bliss, i.e. the satisfaction one gets from knowing that he or she had been of tremendous help to another human being.
Importantly, creativity is a good skill which is quite emulatable.  It involves thinking outside the box to marshal out solutions to people's problems with a win-win outcome.
Explanation:
"Lunch Money" was a children-targetted novel written by Andrew Clements in 2005.  Its protagonist was Greg Kenton, a "shylock kind of kid" despised by  Maura Shaw, who unfortunately duplicates Greg's comics. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
The answer is D: Someone's dog is barking :)
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The protagonist im pretty sure
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The parts of a simple introductory paragraph are a hook sentence, an introduction to the topic, and a thesis statement. Since your essay is about vegetarianism, I would start with a quote or statistic about vegetarians. This could be something like, "Studies show that 40% of vegetarians live longer than meat-eaters." or something like that. Introducing your topic is pretty self-explanatory. Just talk about what it means to be a vegetarian. You're probably familiar with writing a thesis statement. A thesis statement is a fact statement about your topic and summarizes the main point of your essay. A example of this could be (depending on your viewpoint) "Vegetarians are ultimately healthier that meat-eaters" or "A vegetarian diet is a healthier and makes one happier than dieting and consuming meat.".
Hopefully this helped a bit! Good luck on your essay!