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I read a professional review on this story from several decades ago, back when this book was originally published, that, while certainly much celebrating the story, suggested that it was almost stereotypical! I beg to disagree. What admittedly could have easily become a flat commentary on folks of differing races in a typical Alaskan setting actually touched my heart and even had me at times understanding the mindset of those we would have considered to be racist. This is an honest sample of what life was like in the Alaskan frontier and what those who lived there felt and thought as well as a beautiful pastoral.

Annie Hobbes is a young teacher from Oregon who falls in love with the romantic idea of teaching in the adventurous and beautiful Alaskan wilderness. Her fun romp turns serious as the ideas with which she was raised are challenged by the citizens of the little town Chicken who demonstrate negativity toward the local Native Americans. This girl, who begins the story as less than a tenderfoot, eventually earns the respect of the same people that want to run her out of town for her ideals.

And yet, fortunately, Annie is never portrayed as a perfect Saint. She is quirky and likeable and, heck, I could sometimes see why everyone was annoyed by her--thus is the magic of the writing.

This story also appealed to me on the level of teacher to teacher. I read this book at the end of my first year of teaching when I was all drained out--this reinspired me to do everything for my students.

The characters are wonderful as well as the plot. The gorgeous descriptions are quick as not to slow down the necessary fast pacing. This is both a story of prejudice and a delightful and fun Alaskan adventure.

I don't know how much of this is actual fact, but goodness me, the author did very well!

THIS IS THE MOST BORING BOOK AND ANYONE WHO SAYS IT IS GOOD IS OLD AND PERSONALLY IT IS THE MOST BORING BOOK!

This is a delightful story about a young woman teaching in the Alaskan interior. Since I love books about life in Alaska, I found this book to be a very enjoyable read. If you loved this book, you might also enjoy a new release by author Cheryl Schuermann.


When the Water Runs: Growing Up with Alaska

This book is a keeper. I really enjoyed this story and each
time I have recommanded it they have come away loving this
story also.

this is a book you won't be able to put down. I loved it and was sad when it was finished..........it's fabulous. Best book since "waltz with me Alaska'

BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT! It was recommended to us by a reading specialist.
It makes it very easy to recall definitions. I actaully bought it for my
6th and 3rd grader. They will read it for fun. LOVE IT!

I am very happy with this book. It's fun and easily to read, my grandson love it. He read it almost every day.

I bought it becuase the reviews are so positive and it's great! it's really easy and fun to recite words with these cartoons and I acutally color them when looking at them make more fun as well as keep me concentrated. I'd definetly recommend it if you consider yourself as a visulizer...just types of people who read best to learn!

This is a fun and easy way to learn vocabulary words. Who doesn't want to learn effortlessly? Now you can "read" cute cartoons and expand your vocabulary at the same time! I've been using this book with my students for years -- always good for a memborable laugh!

I have used these Vocabulary Cartoons since the first editions were available. I think the students enjoy this type of study. I have loaned many of my copies to students and colleagues. I am glad to see the extra vocab in the 2nd edition. I even have some of my own that I have added. This also makes a good project for the "talented artists" who may not enjoy studying vocab, but who learn as they provide cartoons. These students have fun as they learn. They work with students who provide the meanings and links. We highlight a synomym.The name Burchers comes to mind when I think of Vocab Study. You should invite students and teachers to submit their ideas. (I am retired, but I know this would be such a good project.)

I gave this to my best friend, who is pregnant with her first baby. I had been looking at other journals and this one looked more on the fun and cute side opposed to all serious. When I got it it was so nice, bright colors and the pages were high quality. The book has alot of fun questions in it and even some for the dad to be! Also has a format that would help someone still to it, sometimes journals can be hard to continue. Where there are questions and then space for the answers...and not questions that would involve pages and pages of answerws. Some of the questions may seem silly to fill in now, maybe a bit on the corny side, but these answers to these questions are going to be exactly what you are going to reread and remember for years to come!

I loved this! So many fill in the blanks so that you can remeber after you forget! I should have just jotted more down, but i still am glad i used it!

This journal asks the questions you'd love to see your responses to when your children are much older. I really like this journal. Someone gave me one when I had my first child. And I ended up buying one for my second pregnancy. If you enjoy guided journals (where they ask tons of questions throughout the entire 9 months), you'll be pleased with this one.

The Mom's Choice Awards® honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times Best-Selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; Florrie Binford-Kichler, Founder of Patria Press, Inc.- an award-winning independent publisher and Member of The Children's Book Council; Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach, and founder of The Just For Mom Foundation(tm) and the Mom's Choice Awards®. Parents and educators look for the Mom's Choice Awards® seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. This book has been honored by this distinguished award.

I wanted a "pregnancy" journal to document key events during my pregnancy and found exactly what I was looking for in Butterflies & Hiccups. Initially, I considered a "daily" journal but in reviewing some of the pregnancy journals online, I was impressed with Butterflies & Hiccups. It is a "monthly" journal, which really turned out to be perfect... daily would have been overkill, especially since there are many days that pass where there's really nothing to document. This journal has excellent preprinted questions as well a blank page for each month for documenting additional information, perhaps not covered by the preprinted questions. Each month, the journal covers topics such as changes/symptoms, doctor visits, and has a page for placing a photo to track pregnancy progress (and more). It goes up to nine months then continues on to the "Birth" with a checklist of what to pack in the hospital bag, preprinted birth questions, a photo page for picture with baby, a page for baby info (name, date/time of birth, height/length, etc). It also contains a section to document the Baby Shower. The journal contains a 'Baby Keepsake' pocket, perfect for holding ultrasound pictures. There's also an attached ribbon bookmarker so that you can go straight to the page where you left without having to flip through the journal... and it's spiral bound. Highly recommended PREGNANCY journal... this is NOT a BABY journal.

The 4 volume set of Catwings is an excellent collection of books. It makes a great gift. Even if your child reads well on their own, these books are marvelous for a family "read aloud" time. If you do not have that time, shut off the TV and make the time...it is well worth it!

Great book for any cat lover

author of "Hobo Finds A Home"

I've given several friends (adults) Catwings, all of whom were completely charmed by the books.

Firstly, these 4 books are written exquisitely well. We've seen what wonderful things Le Guin can come up with before in her "Earthsea" trilogy. This trilogy became so popular they made a movie about it! But when she steps back into the softer world of children's fiction she proves her skills yet again to the reader. These are books even I, at age 23, enjoy reading again. And I enjoyed them immensely the first time I read them in second or third grade.
This is the story of four young cats with wings venturing into the countryside from their rough city life. It's all about the journeys they have along the way. On top of the wonderfully crafted story, there are great illustrations showing you just how lovable the kitties are!

This particular edition is paperback. The holder it comes in is not particularly sturdy, just a glorified cardboard, but the books inside are a true treasure. I looked everywhere to find these loved stories from my childhood, and I'm glad Amazon could provide me with them. You will not be disappointed!!

My 1st grader's teacher read these as read-aloud books at the beginning of the year. My daughter loved them so much, we bought the set and she read the again on her own. The stories are sweet and very imaginative - my daughter and her friends played "Catwings" on the playground for weeks - each one taking on the role of a different cat, acting out the stories and creating new ones. To me, a book that can capture the attention of a child and help them create new things out of it is a great one. Love the illustrations too.

What a chase!!!! Not only was it a lot of fun, but engaging. I enjoyed the character's first person perspective that as a reader led me to feel tied to the story.

The twists and turns just kept me going to the very last page. (I elbowed more then one person in the crowded train trying to get comfortable to enjoy the read during my commute.) More then once I thought "how is Jake going to get out of this one?" There were also times that I wanted to skip pages to find out what happened - but dared not to because every time I thought I had it figured out, Cort had me on another road.

The tastefulness in the writing is obvious. You could see that NOT one detail was spared in not only describing the characters, but the city setting and touching on details that most writers would not dare to or fumble over.

This was a great read - Kudos to Cort!!!

Having been immersed in the pits of NYC investment banking and as a civil litigator for over 35 years I feel uniquely qualified to say that Cort Malone's depiction of the suspense and intrique of the underbelly of those worlds is right on the mark. Even as a rookie, I feel that he can suit up against Grisham, Patterson and DeMille and would be an odds on favorite in keeping your page turning attention.
Bruce W.McAlbert

This book was well written and I was caught up in the intrigue,twists and turns, etc.

David

. . . times are tough in New York City. You know how that song gets stuck in your head and you just can't stop thinking about it? That's how I feel about this book. Except instead of annoying you with the same bit of melody over and over during the day, this book brings a smile to your face. While you're reading it, you can't stop thinking about what may happen next and you look forward to learning all you can about the characters. When you're through with it, you just want to find as many people as you can to read it so you can talk about those same characters and the plot twists. Just what a book is supposed to do. If you haven't read it yet, buy yourself a copy so you can join in singing its praises.

In support of a new author I bought copies of this book for all my family and friend readers for Christmas. Of course I bought one for myself too, especially being a fellow attorney (and aspiring author). I put it on the stack of yet-to-be read books that I always have and read a few before finally picking it up and cracking the spine. Well, by the time I was 20 pages in I realized that Malone's next book will cut the line and be read as soon as I have it in my hands! The character development and plot twists were great fun and I got so wrapped up in the storyline that I couldn't wait to find a free moment to visit my "friend" Jake and find out what he was up to in the big City. I am anxiously awaiting the next book! I'm offering "reader" services free of charge if I can have a sneak preview! I have also been inspired to delve back into my own novel! So thanks for a great story and the push to get me into my own!

My aunt lent me a copy of this book when I was about 15 years old. The Cheerleader came out before I was born and 2 of my aunts loved the story, so they felt sharing it with me was appropriate. I in turn passed it on to my friends and a revival of Snowy, Tom, Puddles and Bev began. Imagine the thrill of seeing a sequel 20 years later..Snowy! And then the books that followed "the gang". I haven't enjoyed this author's other stories (outside of the "Snowy") ones nearly as much as this, but once you read The Cheerleader, be sure to follow up with the rest of them!

Every once in a while a novel comes along that for some reason never seems to become a huge bestseller or make its author famous and renowned, but that is so note-perfect that the few who read it gobble it up like an addictive drug, pass it on to their friends (who never return the copy lent to them) and never forget it. THE CHEERLEADER is just such a novel. It captures right down to the smallest detail the way life was for an ambitious high-school girl growing up in a small town in New Hampshire in the 1950s. By doing so, it becomes a novel with which any woman (American, anyway) of any era can identify. Snowy's world, her parents, her school, her friends, her teachers, her hopes and her dreams are all drawn here with a truth that is almost painful. Once you read it, it stays with you forever...and you want more stories about her, which the author has supplied, thanks to fan demand, in the form thus far of SNOWY, HENRIETTA SNOW and, now, THE HUSBAND BENCH (which focuses on the life of Snowy's friend Bev, and which I have already pre-ordered). The book I can compare this to most is Betty Smith's A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN--another example of a novel that hits a timeless chord with its readers yet, thanks to some strange quirk of fate, has failed to make its author as well known as she should be. If you've read TREE and haven't read THE CHEERLEADER and its sequels, do yourself a favor and start now. If you haven't read any of these books, what are you waiting for? Pull up a chair, a glass of your favorite beverage and lose yourself in the worlds of Francie and Snowy. It'll be some of the best reading time you've ever spent. Warning, though: don't lend out your copy of THE CHEERLEADER to anyone; chances are you won't get it back!

I first read this when I was 16, in the 1970s. I don't know how MacDougall got a drug-addled, school-vandalizing little punker to identify with a straight-A, student council member, 1950s cheerleader, but instead of resenting Snowy, I loved her and cared what happened to her. MacDougall does a fantastic job of giving the physical details of a 1950s adolescence: the smell of Noxzema and Cashmere Bouquet, the revolving fads of ice-cream bucket purses and turned-up collars. Maybe that's why I understood, even though my fads involved satin windbreakers, purple concert kits, and patchwork jeans: like Snowy, I simultaneously wanted to fit in with the crowd and to remain my own person. Ironically, by using the tiniest specifics of a mid-twentieth-century high school experience, MacDougall has given us a world and a character that readers from any era will somehow find recognizable.

This book follows the life of Henrietta (Snowy) Snow though her teen years back in the 1950s - centering around the ultimate goal of being a high school cheerleader. Snowy and her friends face the conflicts of most typical girls growing up: That of exploring and learning while maintaining their reputations - as was so important in that era.

All do succeed in remaining "good girls" - although with a definition much more realistic than what was offered to adults and parents of that time.

This is a great read. I've owned my copy for 15+ years and have read it numerous times - and it gets better with each reading.

I am such a fan of this book. I re-read it every couple of years or so - it's like watching a favorite movie over again.
A similar book about a golden girl of the 50's who breaks away from society's expectations is "Heartbreak Hotel" by Anne-Rivers Siddons. Both books are examples of superb writing.

After reading the stellar reviews I purchased this book for my 13 year old sister. All I can say is "Blah". This is some of the lamest young fantasy I have ever read, needless to say she never got this book. Falling prey to a host of storybook and fashion cliches Emily the spunky loveable red-head, Adriane the quiet and mysterious raven haired guide at the Raven's Wood Animal Preserve, and Kira the blonde valley girl princess tromp about in a terribly typical manner discovering magic from another world and befriending a host of magical animal companions. Perhaps I've been spoiled by J.K.Rowling, but Rachel/Shelly Roberts writes as though the young women reading these books are stupid. Upon reading "Circles In The Stream" I was a little surprised that it was considered appropriate reading for a 13 year old!

On a less negative note, if you have a little girl about 7-10 that enjoys reading- this will be right up her alley. Certainly not a classic novel but one that is a "safe" fantasy book that younger readers can handle with ease. For all you not so little girls out there try "Howl's Moving Castle"- a charming fantasy novel and love story- or if you prefer a series Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums are an excellent age-appropriate set of fantasy novels.

This book is the best I have read ever!
The book is mainly about, friendship,magic, and the love of Animals, for those parents out there if you want to know more about this book and the series, go to....

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This book a no put down, something to treasure. Shelly Roberts has a true talent for book writing!

Highly recommanded to Magic lovers everywhere!

this book is awsome!! Right now I'm middle of reading trail by fire but anyways this is a must read! I love all the magic in the book and friendship. Every thing is so magical. If u lov magic well this is a book for u!!

this book is the best its nice and thick and super interesting i wish i had the auctal book i took it out of the libray if you cant decide to buy it or not buy it you wont be disaponted also another good seires isw w.i.t.c.h.

I loved it! Emily is this new girl in town and is lonely but doesn't mind as her mom is a vet so spends most of her time with animals. As she gets adjusted to the town one day this sick animal comes with these brutal green gashes that everybody thinks is pioson. Not just that but dogs are soon found dead by the wildlife perserve. Emily decides to explore until she finds a stone that later turns beautiful like in all differnet rainbow colours. She later meets a girl Adriane and becomes fast friends. They learn to except the magic that entered their lives and most of all they learn that magic is strongest when your friends are there to help, and not to mention a magical world with evil lurking everywhere.

This is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read many books on manifesting, magnetising, prosperity, spirituality - and this book incorporates all four in a very cohesive way that makes sense.

Whereas some books lean towards more on the "spiritual side of abundance" rather than the "money aspect" this book doesn't lose its main subject "money" which I found very satisfying. Also, some authors focus mainly on "deblocking" and "resolving money-related-issues and feelings" which I personally believe only gets you to the "zero state" (you've just gotten rid of a problem, but you haven't become "much richer"). This book has exercises that helps you to magnetize clients, a number of customers, and a sum of money which I found very helpful.

Bottomline is that the book delivers what the title suggests.

I have several books by Sanaya Roman, and the other books are focused more on spiritual aspects, but this one really does a neat job of talking about money, about creating money.

In terms of "immediate results" this book comes second to another book I have written by Babaji (sp?) but I still find myself reaching for this book over and over again, especially when I am in my "entrepreneur mode" of thinking.

Hope some of this helps. Namaste.

For years I struggled against two things that I thought (and felt) were in total opposistion with each other; God and money. I really felt that the two were exclusive of each other. I was a "good" Christian. I thought more about Jesus than I thought about money. But I also thought that if Jesus ever did return to Earth I was gonna saddle him with some of the bills I had incurred waiting for his butt.

Sorry to sound so irreverent...actually, I'm not.

Now that I have purged the "label" of Christian from my belief system and consider myself a Spiritual Being living in a Spiritual Universe, I really get what Jesus was really trying to teach while here upon this Earth. He was trying to get us to remember that God is our Source for every good thing and everything is good because everything is a manifestation of Spirit.

I can feel some of you growing a little irritated and you are right, it is irritating. Truth is often very irritating because it makes us question those beliefs that we have not only believed, but worshipped. I made a god out of Lack. I made a god out of debt. I made a god out of never having enough. I had author-ity issues...in other words, I thought I had created my life.

I didn't create my life...Spirit did...Spirit does...Spirit will always be creating and recreating my life and God has put every good thing within me. We all come "factory equipped" with abundance, prosperity, and plenty.

So, what the hell went wrong? We started believing more in lack than in supply. We believed more in a future hell than a Heaven of now. We believed that somehow God wanted us to be poor, miserable, and unhappy during our stay upon this Earth because afterall, if we accept our sufferings now, our real treasure will be waiting for us up in some future realm.

Nonsense.

Jesus said, "Hey, dudes, lookin within...Heaven is now...you're looking in the wrong spot. You are looking outside of yourselves for God and God is always right where you are. You are breathing God in...You are breathing God out....you're a manifestation of God...Heaven isn't a place...Heaven is you..."

Talk about pushing the freaky buttons. We gotta put this cat on a cross. He's speaking blasphemies and heresies and all sorts of stuff that's hitting too close to home. So they killed Jesus. Murdered him. Watched his blood flow to the ground.

You can kill the messenger, but you can't kill the message.

The message is that life is meant to be a joyous experience. Stop idolizing your lack. Stop embracing your limitations. Stop catering to fear. Take the focus off of "not enough" and put the focus on the truth, "There is always more than enough. Abundance flows to me now. I easily and effortlessly attracting more and more and more good into my life now. God is my Infinite Source of every good thing. I am blessed. I am a blessing. My life is rich, full, happy, and prosperous."

This book will remind you that you are a magnet and that you are always attracting things into your life. We can't help it, that's the way we were created. But what are we attracting? That's the real question. If you have money issues...which 99.9% of us do in some way, get this book and devour the thing. Don't sit there and intellectualize the whole thing. Get it deep into the marrow of your bones that you truly deserve to be rich and if you are rich you deserve to be even richer. There is more than enough for everyone here to be rich, prosperous, and plentiful.

It is time for the dis-ease of poverty to be wiped out forever.

Just think if Jesus did come back and you were dressed in rags and driving a 1973 Nova. He'd say, "Dude, didn't you listen to me? C'mon, man...I was hoping you'd take me to dinner tonight. I didn't wait around for 2,000 years to eat a sandwich in the park with a person that looks like a bum."

We are all children of the universe. It is time to act like we are...talk like we are...dress like we are...and FEEL THAT WE ARE!

Peace and Blessings, children.

I've been looking for a book like this one for over 5 years, and I finally found it. I've believed for a long time that the same ability that allows us to heal ourselves of physical ailments without use of medicine or other physical treatments must also make it possible to "heal" our financial lives. I've found many self-help books that are aimed at helping us improve our financial lives, but they're all based in and limited to conventional financial techniques. I've read dozens of books on "how to improve your life using spiritual techniques" ... and while many of them get into considerable depth on exactly how to use such techniques to heal relationships, physical problems, etc., none of them has ever devoted more than a brief chapter or two on what's really required to use spiritual power to heal our financial lives. I was beginning to think that such a book had never been written.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I got past some of my own emotional baggage about money. Those of us who consider ourselves "spiritual" often have issues with having, saving, investing and just enjoying money. Many of us were taught that the love of money is the root of all evil. Well, once I saw and really let go of my own issues about wealth and allowed myself to see that it's just another form of benefit we're meant to enjoy in this life ... the next DAY ... this book crossed my path. And it's EXACTLY the book I knew somehow in my heart HAD to exist.

In short, this book is about how to use the same spiritual power many of us have used to reshape other parts of our lives (health, relationships, vocations, lifestyle) to completely transform our financial lives and our general experience of abundance and prosperity. Far from being a brief or vague treatment of the topic, the authors take us step by step through the mental and emotional work we need to do to tap into our spiritual ability to draw to us the wonderful financial experiences we want in our lives. As my partner and I read this book together, we kept stopping to say to each other "this is just EXACTLY what we've been looking for."

The power of Love ... our spiritual power to create all and only that which benefits us and those around us ... can be used to create the wealth and prosperity we long for. As we read the chapters of this book that walked us through the "how to" of creating wealth, it mirrored our own instincts about the subject so perfectly, it was as if the book had been written for us. Written in 1988, on one level, I can't imagine how I never saw this book before. But I know that my own issues about actually EXPERIENCING ... HAVING ... ENJOYING money fully ... kept me from finding it. As soon as I was ready, POOF ... the book appeared in my life.

What does this book teach, in general terms? #1 - That as a spiritual being, you have the ability to create unlimited benefit in your life ... and that includes financial benefit. #2 - that the way to create that benefit is not through hard work, worry, greed or worldly risk. #3 - That the path to creating completely beneficial wealth ... wealth not only in terms of money but also in terms of free time, spending your time doing what you enjoy most and what benefits those around you most ... in ALL forms ... lies in taking personal responsiblity for the thoughts and feelings you have within yourself about prosperity ... and activing taking steps to change those thoughts and feelings so that you use your spiritual creative power to bring into your life the wealth you want. #4 - That it's not only POSSIBLE to experience the abundance you want while doing with your life what you really want to do most ... doing what you love most is essential to opening yourself to the abundance you have the power to draw into your life.

Easy to read, logically put together, the authors do a wonderful job of showing us exactly what we need to do to learn to use our spiritual power ... the miraculous creative power of love ... to experience total financial healing. They present a book in some ways similar to Louise Hay's books on healing your body and life through the use of the mind and heart. But where "Heal Your Body" focuses on using love and the power of our thoughts and feelings to take responsibility for transforming our physical health, this book does something similar in the real of finances, and it does a wonderful job.

I just purchased and read this book in the past few days ... I'll keep you posted on the real world results as they develop. But if my experience using this book is anything like my experience using the writings of Louise Hay, our financial challenges should soon be as much a thing of the past as are my old ulcer, knee problems, hyper-acidity, chronic head and neck aches, tendonitis and coutless other problems that used to plague me that are now completely gone.

I bought so many book on how to make money and prosperity...but this is one of the best...it helped me to shift the energy and unlock the body energy...nonetheless is FANTASTIC when it explain how to become a MAGNET...AWESOME!!!
QUANTUM PHYSICS AT WORK...

Ive had this book for many years, and keep going back to it. There are exercises in the book to help you make the aspirations concrete by writing it out in addition to the visualizations.

Whenever I have a money issue, I randomly pick a page and see what message it has for me at this point in time. Unlike some other new age postive thinking books, the downside of things is not ignored. This is well rounded inspiration that shows you how to deal with the kinks as well.

The author even says that you must get practical knowledge to compliment the metaphysical awareness. From my point of view, you must have both, for there to be a balance. It is whole brain thinking.

This is the first Pike book I've ever read. And this book is a must read. I enjoyed it very much. Once you start reading this, you wont be able to put it down. There is a surprise waiting on every page you turn (: The murderer was the last person I thought it would be. This book is very exciting and leaves you wondering. There is a huge twist at the end. The end was okay for me. But I didn't find the end very satisfying. But overall, the book was very good. For any fans of Pike, this is a must read. Hope you enjoy (:

Fall Into Darkness is a really good book if you like horror, romance, drama, and a huge twist. The characters are Ann, Sharon, Paul, and Jeff. Jeff is accusing Sharon of pushing Ann off a cliff. Read this book to find out if she is guilty or not.
Steven, Grade 5 Rhode Island.

this was the best book i've ever read. I don't like reading books as much, but this one really caught my attention.

This is one of the best books I`ve ever read. Its put together so nicely that I was never bored. I don`t regret reading this book and you won`t either.

Fall into Darkness is a great book. It is definitely surprising. It was suspenseful, mysterious, and amazing.It's sooooo good that there's a movie on it. Pike definitely catches the reader's attention. I LOVE this book. This is one of my favorite Christopher Pike book.

I thought this book was so sad. Mary Anne loses everything- only a few things survied. Mary Anne is woke up in the middle of the night by her cat Tigger. She didn't even cry about it. Finally at the very end, she decides to cry. I would have to say, if you are like Mary Anne, and you cry allot. Don't read this book.

I cannot believe Mary Anne's house burned down! She and Dawn were VERY upset. But I can't figure out why Mary Anne could not cry. She normally cries right when she SEES something sad or cute. Or even HEARS about it. Finally one night she is able to cry. Dawn cried when she got one look at the house. I was glad they got to save A FEW things even if they weren't worth very much. I an VERY glad Tigger woke Mary Anne up. She might not have gotten out in time if he hadn't. I loved the book.

I know just how Mary-Anne feels. Our house burned down a year ago. I lost everything-including old letters (I'm like Mary-Anne and, the worst, pictures and things of my older brother, whom died when I was 7. So I know it was really hard for Mary-Anne. I cry when I read this book and I feel like Mary-Anne and I are crying together.But life goes on and changes happen-to Mary-Anne and the whole BSC (And We Love Kids Club too!)

In this book, Mary Anne's house burned down due to faulty kitchen wiring. She's very upset and in total shock. She loved the colonial farmhouse she moved to with her father after his marriage to Dawn's mother. Mary Anne loses almost everything during the fire. Her clothes, books, diaries, letters, pictures, etc. are gone, but she found some jewelry, her mom's picture, and her recent diary. Even though I've never liked Dawn, I'm glad she came to CT to comfort her family. Dawn was pretty upset about the fire. Even though she mostly hated CT, she loved the old farmhouse, the barn, and the secret passage. (the barn didn't burn down, but the secret passage from her room is gone!) I'm glad that Mary Anne finally cried about the fire, after her long shellshocked spell and she's hoping for some positive changes in her future. She doesn't want to move to Philidelpia, where her dad was offered a new job there. It's great that Kristy and her family took in Mary Anne and her parents and that the club and other neighbors comforted and donated lost items from the fire. It was a great book, but I cried my eyes out when Mary Anne lost her house and felt lost. I think she's a strong, brave girl who dealt with a lot of tough events in her life. I'm glad that Mary Anne, her dad, her stepmom, and her cat Tigger got out of the house safely. During a house fire, the number one thing is to get people out of the house and not try to save possessions. I give this book a 10.

Mary Anne's house burned bacause of wiring. Mary Anne almost loses everything like clothes, books.... Dawn was pretty upset when she heard that Mary Anne's house burned. Where Will Mary Anne live?. Will the Baby Sitters help her?