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Even my 10 yr old loves this one. He loves whales and finds anything with more info fun to read. These chapter books provide a great way for kids to learn and enjoy reading at the same time.

This Magic School Bus Chapter Book is the best of the firstfour. It was very funny, especially when the class gets stranded underthe sea. Any MSB fan would love it.

This review is by my 10 year old son. This book has moreinformation on Whales than other books I have read. First they go on abus tour. Then they turn the bus into a sub. Ms. Frizzle, Has four mini-subs. Two kids went in each sub. Ms. Frizzle, stayed in the bus with the Captain Gil. Then the adventure begins. I enjoyed this book very much.

Lois Donovan has done a fantastic job of creating totally believable characters and weaving an exciting storyline throughout present day and in 1755. The first part of the story develops the relationship of Sarah, a 16 year old who is sent to live with her grandparents for the summer, and Luke who seems to start the book out as Sarah's "albatross".

I could not put the book down as Sarah travelled back in to the time of the Acadians. Without giving away key elements of the story I will just say that there are a number of events that make the novel a compelling read and seem realistic enough to make you believe this is what actually happened. The story is historically accurate and vividly paints a picture of what it might have been like during life in 1755 and throughout the Deportation. Loose ends are nicely tied up and there is more than one surprise that will delight readers.

I hope there will be a sequel... I highly recommend reading Winds of L'Acadie!

An excellent book and a must read for young adults. You actually seem to experience what it might be like if one was transported back to 1755. The description of Acadian life is spectacular. I thought that the author delicately intertwines the historical aspects of the novel with the contemporary storyline. I felt that I learned a good deal about the destructive deportation and could empathize with the struggle of the Acadian people. The novel takes place at a pivotal and confrontational point in history. The British "Red Coats" were sent into Acadia to disperse the people and acquire their fertile and prised Acadian lands. The conflict that arises creates a dramatic story line that exemplifies the human struggle. Highly recommended!!!

This is a well written story about a sixteen year old girl, Sarah White, who is sent to live with her grandparents for the summer. There she meets up with Luke, a boy who seems to be inadvertently intent on making her life difficult. While developing the present day storyline the author adds a compelling adventure in 1755. This was a pivotal point in history - during the deportation of the Acadians by the British authorities. A Mi'kmaq quill box is used as the time travel device which cleverly entwines the converging storylines. The novel gives the reader a first hand look at what it would have been like to live as an Acadian in the 18th century. Both the story and characters demonstrate a satisfying sense of development throughout the novel. It is a great read and highly recommended!

This is a great item for first time parents! Also a great way to preserve memories of your child's busy first years. I love it and highly recomend it.

This was a great book for any new mother and it relieves some of the guilt when you are away from your child and miss some of those most precious moments. A great gift!

Great book! All you need to know about raising children and to the point. Give a copy of this to your nanny or baby sitter for Christmas or make it required reading.

What a neat way to illustrate the concept of basic addition! Our kindergarten teacher read this book to the class and it provided an example to the children that adding numbers together can be done in a variety of ways: from simple to higher level thinking.

I find 12 Ways to Get to 11 to be a very useful tool for the classroom. Every two pages focuses on a different way to get to the number eleven. The pictures correspond directly to what is being said. This is a good springboard for more discussion and work for different combinations of numbers. Teachers can take advantage of the format in which each combination is presented and have their students come up with their own "number stories." This book provides a good alternative way of thinking about addition.

This is really a very exclusive club. Less than twenty-five players amassed this many hits. Lots of very fine hitters never quite made it to 3,000. It takes a long and fruitful career to make it. There are a lot of good stories about each one in this book.

Greats like Sam Crawford, Sam Rice, Rogers Hornsby, Al Simmons, Mel Ott, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Ernie Banks and Carlton Fisk and so many other have failed to do what 24 players have done - get 3,000 hits.

From Rose to Clemente this exclusive fraternity of two dozen of baseball best is covered n this one of a kind collectors book. This must have for every baseball fan of all ages breaks down each of the 24 and gives you a short glimpse into what has made them great.

In 213 pages you'll read about men like Aaron, Brett, Boggs, Gwynn, Ripken, Cobb, Rose, Musial, Waner, Winfield, Carew, Anson, Mays, Murray, Brock, Clemente and eight others. Simply one of the best books on baseball I have ever read.

Under $15.00 is well worth the price; I would have paid double for this book. Congratulations to the 24 best hitters in baseball and also to Sports Publishing Inc. for allowing me to read this book.

I have always dreamed of meeting the 16 baseball players that have hit over 500 home runs. Now I realize that meeting Ruth, Ott, Mantle and Matthews would be impossible that's why I'm glad to have a copy of this book.

Along with those listed earlier you read about Aaron, Schmidt, Jackson, Foxx, Killebrew, Mays, Robinson, Williams, McCovey, Banks, Murray and the newest member McGwire.

The book is new and updated and the 16 players are listed alphabetically and no ranking system is used. I like this concept as it gives the reader the choice as to which they consider the best of this very special and elite group.

Each chapter is written to not only discuss the career of the player but also let others who knew them talk about the person as well. The book also includes photos of each of the players. This is for every baseball fan young and old - excellent work and well done!!

Right now there are sixteen players who have hit over 500 home runs. Each one has a nice write-up and stories that are very enjoyable to read. Fifteen are retired or deceased and one is still playing.

My kids love David Steinberg's Grasshopper Pie & Monster Mall. Now they also have me reading Club Pet to them every night.

This collection of fun and easy to read poems is perfect for children who are beginning readers. The color illustrations and the great poems are very engaging. My 5 year old son and his entire pre-kindergarten class -- thoroughly enjoyed it! They loved the funny lines about the animals -- and the kids were truly inspired to learn to read! The kids who already can read -- totally loved this book because they could really understand and enjoy the humor. Also -- as any parent knows -- kids love rhymes and this book is full of witty and silly ones!

I have been studying Abraham Lincoln for nearly 40 years. Many Lincoln scholars consider ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A BIOGRAPHY by Benjamin P. Thomas to be one of the three best one-volume biographies of Lincoln written to date. The other two books are LINCOLN by David Herbert Donald and WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE by Stephen B. Oates.

Very readable one volume life of Lincoln. Pulled things together in a way Sandburg's six volume masterpeice could not. A case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. And made utterly clear exactly what Lincoln was fighting for: that democracy as evidenced by the people's vote at the ballot box might survive as an example to the world. If all the states had voted in elections to let the succeeding states go, then OK. But there was no such election. It was always the Union, never slavery, that was his purpose, although he understood slavery to be at the heart of the matter.

This is not your usual book on bass fishing. It teaches you why a bass acts the way that is does and starts you thinking about things that only expert fishermen usually consider! It is a bit dated, but bass still act the same now as they did when it was written so the info is just as useful today. Get this book now, while you can still find a copy!

As I said before this book is great! It is great for advanced anglers and despite its title it is extrordinarily helpful for beginers as well.It covers all kinds of helpful topics like good places too fish what kind of bait too pitch and evan about color choices. this is in my opinion is the best most helpful in-depth book ive ever read on the topic.but of course it is only an opinion,you dont have too believe me.I became a believer when I cought the biggest bass of my life! But seriously ladies and gents if you want the best book on the market "by far"!!! please go with advansed bass tactics, not only for the butifual pics but for your own sucess.

"Ah, Wilderness!" is the only comedy that Eugene O'Neill wrote and as such stands out as quite different from most of his work. It is the story of Richard Miller, a 17 year-old Swinburne- and Wilde-reading intellectual pretty obviously based on O'Neill's memory of himself as an adolescent. Richard is in love with Muriel McComber, a neighbor girl, but Muriel's father objects to the relationship and, after a heated exchange between Mr. McComber and Richard's father Nat, Nat half-heartedly tells Richard to stay away from Muriel, and Richard receives a note from Muriel to the effect that the relationship is over. Despondent, Richard lets his older brother's friend talk him into going to a bar to meet a girl, where Richard gets drunk and engages in some innocent flirtation with her, but does not allow the girl (who unsurprisingly is a prostitute) to take him upstairs. Meanwhile, Richard's parents are worried sick about him and are rather displeased when he comes home drunk, but upon realizing that he's learned his lesson, they let him off fairly easily the next day, and everything, including Richard's relationship with Muriel, works out well in the end.

This play really does have some funny moments (two that jump to mind are the drunken ramblings of Richard's Uncle Sid at the dinner table and the extremely awkward attempt by Nat to have a heart-to-heart talk with his son about sex), and the fact that O'Neill was able to write it reveals that he had a good deal more breadth as a playwright than one might think. It's a very charming portrait of a sort of simple small-town life that was, as O'Neill himself expressed it, how O'Neill would have liked his life to be. Particularly Richard's parents, though they do a couple of silly things for mild comedic effect, are fairly idealized in their treatment of Richard himself--stern when they think his behavior needs correcting but always understanding and supportive--leading one to believe that O'Neill was to an extent trying to paint a picture of how he wishes his parents had treated him (as opposed to how they did treat him, as described a few years later in Long Day's Journey into Night). In any case, O'Neill showed with this play that he was just as adept at depicting life in a happy family as he was at depicting more tragic situations, and in doing so he provided posterity with a very entertaining comedy.

Incidentally, in addition to this version, "Ah, Wilderness!" is available, along with "A Touch of the Poet," "Hughie," and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," in the Modern Library compilation "The Later Plays of Eugene O'Neill" (also sold by Amazon). That compilation is, at this writing, not much more expensive than this single-play volume and it ships sooner, so if you're also interested in one or more of the other plays in the Modern Library edition, it's probably a better buy.

Excellent satire by O'Neill! According to some, this is the basis of all TV Sitcoms, including both the classics, such as 'The Brady Bunch' and 'Leave it to Beaver' and the rebellions against such 'happy' shows, such as The Simpsons and South Park. We have much to owe O'Neill - even though I interpert this play as a satire of society...