New Hampshire Books

I really like the Moon Window. I like it because even though it is some what slow in the beginning, it is in pretty good detail. I find it interesting bercause Jo Ellen has so many emotions and when things get tough, she always tries to either fix it or go along with it until she can do something about it.

I think the best part of the book is when Jo Ellen dreams that she is running away. When she woke up, she was in the clothes that she originally planned to run away in. Her hair was messed up and she was very dirty.

I believe that Jane Louise Curry did a great job on showing how the characters felt, especially Jo Ellen. Each character had something unique about them whether it was their family background or their ambition. Thoughout the whole book you can tell what the conflict is. Jo Ellen is constantly battling herself and other people that are around her on her feelings, family and how she wants and wishes her life to be.

JoEllen has has her mom all to herself for a long time until her mom meets George in the church choir and decides to get married. During the honeymoom, JoEllen gets shipped off to her Granty's mansion. Her plan is to escape during the night and be home by late morning. She finds the perfect way to get out, a moon window in the attic leading out to a sturdy tree branch. All is going well until she discovers that she is walking through the past. She returns to the mansion only to travel through the moon window again and again and learn more and more about her past.

This book is so perfect for family and for leisure riders! It is not the "carry-your-bike-up-the-legdge-and bushwhack-through-the-bushes" kind of book. Rather, you're biking on pine-needle covered trails a lot and having a chance to share in nature. It if perfect for starting a family tradition. The author does a super job of combining riding with your kids and doing other things (watching great blue herons fish, observing beavers building their lodges at a state reservoir, a visit to a science center on the Seacoast that's a part of a state park--Odiorne Point).

My kids look at this as such a family thing to do. I want to cultivate this kind of activity with my family so that video games and other sedentary activities take a back seat.

It's a gift to have all these state resources in the scenic state of New Hampshire readily available for the taking. Count me in! Let's go summer--load those bikes up. Don your helmets, kids. We're ready to roll. Ride softly!

This book is a great start when you are looking for places to bike in New Hampshire. However, beware of the maps provided in this book, they are very general and WILL GET YOU LOST. I would advise using the book to select a ride then getting a topographical map of the area, or, obtaining a Forestry Service map. Either way, you are preparing yourself for a fun day of riding in a great state! Let's face it, getting lost riding is fun, right up until it's nighttime and getting cold.

Climbers love to challenge New Hampshire's Mount Washington, New England's tallest mountain. When they get in trouble a search and rescue is mounted; one of the volunteers is high school teacher Will Buchanan. When it is thought a boy is lost on the mountain Will and others in SAR go looking for him but instead find the body of a dead woman. A month ago another woman was also murdered in roughly the same area.

Will and his girlfriend Sheriff Laurie learn the deceased is Samantha Rayley, who used to hike and rock climb on Mount Washington but was caring for her son who has cancer and the bills are astronomical. The police think she came back to town to blackmail the father of her child into paying some of the medical bills. Suspicion falls on Mr. Carpenter who had an affair with her years ago. A search of his house finds Samantha's wallet, the gun that was used to shoot Laurie, a fair amount of pot and a pile of money. Not content to let the police take care of it, Will goes after Carpenter, but when his target has the chance to kill him he does not. Will reconsiders Carpenter's guilt and intends to find out who the real perpetrator is.

The vivid and colorful description of the mountain makes it easy to understand how crimes can be committed in areas so isolated that the bodies are never discovered. The protagonist is a strong yet vulnerable hero whose love for Laurie is touching and is the reason he feels he has to personally find out who the killer is. Tom Eslick is a very visual writer; whose eye catching MOUNTAIN PERIL would make a great movie.

Harriet Klausner

For me, this one just did not have it. The book just never did grab me. I read few mysteries, so perhaps that is the problem. The story was rather simplistic and the dialog strained. I also dislike sloppy details, which are as much the publisher's fault as the author, I suppose. As an example: Page nineteen "It was almost completely dark now,....." then on page twenty one "it was near dusk now,....." The sequencing of daylight was just opposite from what it should have been. Picky, I know, but with a books this short and this simple.....! This is just a small sample of several to follow. We then go a few pages and have a completely gratuitous sex scene thrown in which was completely out of character with the rest of the book. I certainly have nothing against sex in a book, but give me a break. There were plus sides to the book though. It did read very fast. The mountain climbing scenes were quite good and the story did move along at a good clip. Of course, it is a better job of writing than I could pull off, so I suppose I should not go on. All in all, I have read better.

This textbook describes New Hampshire during the colonial period, and is divided into chapters about the region's aborigines, early settlement, conflicts, the revolutionary war and statehood. Many line drawings, photographs, maps, sidebars, biographical sketches and facsimiles of historical documents are included, and the material is dense while still geared toward the interests of its target audience, such as what food was eaten, what kids' lives were like, etc.

I learned quite a bit while reading this, and will use this as a reference for regional information. The cover and binding are sturdy.

I used this book to help me with a Social Studies prodject onThe Colony of New Hampshire, and found the book very helpful. Thisbook covers all topics, including some of the government, and lots of information on the natives in this area. Fradin focuses on the natives and their culture before the English settlers came over. Even their forms of houses and how they got their food. She also gives information about when the settlers came over, and the founder of the actual colony. It tells you what the religion was like and how the church was treated and repected by colony members. This is also a good refrence on how the natives and English got along in New Hampshire, in the 1600's, what the natives helped the English with , and how the English helped the natives. It describes how the settlers grew their food, and what they grew, and others information on regular household life. All in all I found this book very helpful, and I urge others interested in Nw Hampshires founding to read it.

I thought that this was a good racetrack story. Beth, the main character, has no idea that the horse her parents have leased her for the summer is actually a stolen racehorse! Over the course of the book you go along with her on a racetrack mystery to find out why Charmin's owner is always trying to prevent him from racing. Great characters with a good storyline. Readers of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are certain to love this one!

This book is the perfect book for any pre-teenager. It is about Beth and her summer adventurs at the farm in New Hampshire. As you read through the book you will soon find yourself in the middle of an adventure. This book really does have everything a young teen could as for...mystery...adveture...romance..ect!!! You cant but help liking this book. Pretty Penny Farm is deffenitly a book that you will want on your shelf. I recomend it to anyone looking for a good book!!!! I really is worth your time~!!!~

I couldn't wait to see him he is finally home safe. This novel takes place during the World War I era in New England, viewed through the eyes of 12-year-old Jeremy Chance, who disagrees with his father about how to treat other people. Jeremy's mother died of the Spanish Influenza a few months earlier, and Jeremy still misses for her. His father is a good man, but isn't not thinking completely straight about life. The ordeal creates tension between his father and himself, and he is so frustrated he decides to take off on his own to Boston, where he will find his brother's ship. His brother has been fighting the Germans over in Europe, and is now coming home. While there, Jeremy proves his manhood, and his father realizes that he must now respect Jeremy as a man and allow him to have his own opinions about life and what's right. I do recommend this book at points but don't at others.

Jeremy is a real life character, believable and it is easy to believe he is 12 years old and hoping to be a man. The author clearly did his research for the historical setting and events that occurred during World War I. The few pictures, are black and white and ties the novel together.

The novel is realistic. The author writes about the war and its conditions. They seem to have great knowledge of the war. They make Jeremy seem as if he was my brother.

The novel related to the war and informed you of it. They explained the war's conditions and the effort we put into it. Ichose this book do to the reason that I'm learning about World War I in social studies. That was a good factor about it because it helped me learn about the war.

The novel is not detailed well. The author did not spend too much time on detail. They put in minor detail but not as much as there should be. I do recommend this book to people who love books about war.

I recommend this book because it is good. It has a lot of detail but not too much and it didn't get boring. I think Jeremy was a mix between brave (because he went to Boston all by himself), sad (because his Mom died by influenza), and happy (because his brother was coming home from the war in a few weeks). The story was set in the early 1900's and that was very interesting because life was very different than it is today. For example, I did not know there was a disease called influenza. The most interesting part of the book was when Jeremy got caught in a molasses flood. Other people got burned, or stuck to the pavement, or died. And horses got stuck in the barns and people had to shoot them. This all happened in Boston and that's where I live. It says in the back of the book that the molasses flood really happened. I think this author is a really good writer and I want to read more of his books.

This is simply the best book I have ever read revolving around the lives of women. I was genuinely saddened to read the review by Kirkus, to think it may turn away a potential reader from this story which is indeed like walking through a Yankee rock garden barefoot. But the journey is one that is worth taking. Then, musing over the commentary, I realized the blurb had probably been written by a middle aged man from the South, and promptly discarded it. Women of Granite is the saga of a family of women, raised by women, and who manage to rise above the weakness of the men they themselves have chosen. It is not, as they say, for the squeamish. The character of Nana Page is engrossing, shocking, and finally endearing. It is from Nana that the next generations of women flow, learn, and evolve. It is also about how history does indeed repeat itself, sometimes much to our horror. If a reader is interested in a harsh storm, then Women of Granite, like a Yankee February, is worth reading. I do hope others give this novel a chance and post their comments.

I can't believe this book was written by a man -- and coming from a feminist, that's saying a lot. There are women in this world just like the women in this book, and their lives are rarely visible to most of us. But the author gets inside these women's minds, for better and for worse, and paints a picture of the kind of community no one believes exists any more -- are there really people that sheltered, that uneducated, that poor ? Yes, there are, and to see an author at least take a stab at portraying their world is heartening.

One could argue that the themes, imagery, and characters are predictable -- a kind of "Beans of Egypt Maine" Lite -- and to some degree it's true. The book will be most appreciated by those who can take what is good from it and not try to measure it against modern masterpieces.

Very, very quick read.

This book was great for helping us get around the interstates and highways. It doesn't have much in the way of smaller town road maps making getting around in small New England towns a bit more cumbersome. But I do recommend the book for anyone planning a trip to multiple New England states.

The maps in this book are very localized - Boston, the Berkshires, mid Maine Coast. So depending on where you are, you either get a bunch of rides or none at all. Only Vermont is really fully represented.

The maps are clearly drawn and good, and work well in conjunction with a GPS. The directions are broken out by consecutive mile, which is the way I like it, but they should also provide the "miles to next leg" information too for people who prefer that.

The book offers thorough information on dress, etiquette, food and more. It suggests you take it easy - "don't be goaded by others into riding a tour that you feel unprepared for."

Good challenging rides for those who want to drive out and do a 50-100 mile ride somewhere beautiful. Again, because of the length and the fact that you're probably going a distance from home, I definitely suggest bringing a GPS and scoping out which businesses are still in business for food and other necessities beforehand.

A good book which largely delivers what it promises. However, it is best used in conjunction with a more comprehensive map and/or guide, if you're visiting a particular region. Give it 4.5 stars.

Good Points: 1) The author points out "kid-friendly" features on hikes and gives good descriptions. 2) Most of the hikes have pretty good thumbnail maps

Drawbacks: 1) Introductory map could be better (more detailed) to help reader find trails 2) Some hikes lack thumbnail maps. Why? 3) Abilities of children vary wildly. We found that a "moderate" hike can be strenuous for an inexperienced or out-of-shape child (or adult, for that matter).