I read this in 5th grade and still remember how much I enjoyed it since I loved mysteries. Pick it up and read it. It even has their lemonade recipe in the book!

My 8-year old daughter said this is the best book she's ever read! The illustrations are hilarious, the plot is exciting, and the clues are just hard enough to make you think, but not too hard to frustrate! She's very eager to read all the books in the series! As a parent, I thought the only drawback was that some of the charactor names were hard to pronounce and she had to keep asking for help with them. Otherwise I'm very pleased with her enthusiasm.

One of my favorite childhood books was "Something Queer Is Going On," which combined a story by Elizabeth Levy with the illustrations of Mordicai Gerstein. The book's copyright date is 1973, and it was reissued as a Dell Young Yearling in 1982. I can distinctly remember reading the book aloud to my two younger sisters in the 1970s.

SQIGO tells the story of Jill, a young girl who arrives home from school to discover that Fletcher, her lovable bassett hound, is missing. She and her friend Gwen team up to solve this vexing mystery.

SQIGO is genuinely suspenseful, and also sensitive to Jill's anxiety. But mainly this book is a laugh riot. Levy writes witty dialogue, and Gerstein loads up his illustrations with hilarious sight gags. Fletcher himself is, to me, one of the most memorable visual characterizations in children's lit: with his stubby tail, droopy eyes, and big floppy ears, he is an endearing carictature of his breed.

Don't worry; SQIGO has a happy ending. This is a great book which deserves to be discovered by a new crop of readers.

I have used this text in most all of my beginning Spanish Grammar classes and have been amazed with the results. The text is easy to understand, gives excellent examples and reinforces the verbs in an easy to understand manner. The usage of this book along with any text is critical for students who intends to master Spanish Grammar.

This book is wonderful, it captures the beauty of America in page after page of splendor. It's a must for everyone that enjoys what America has to offer for scenery. I have bought many of these books as gifts to people from other countries. I think it shows just how beautiful America is, and helps them decide where to visit. Everyone we've given this book to seems to love it. Seeing is believing in this book. You won't be disappointed!

I love this book! Constance Levy does it again with this delightful, refreshing and thought provoking collection of poems. Her skillful use of rhythm and rhyme, and her keen observations of nature earn her a place among the upper echelon of children's poets such as Emily Dickinson and Lilian Moore.
Thorougly enjoyable, and it's both fun and educational for my children.

Levy and Scott-Clark are excellent story tellers, and do they ever have a story to tell. Tracing the history of imperial green jade, or jadeite, they begin in the late 18th century with Chinese emperor Qianlong and 400 rivetting pages later end in present day Myanmar. Along the way the reader is exposed to the unrestrained profligacy of the Chinese emperors and the equally unrestrained ignorance and arrogance of the British colonialists. There is scheming and plots within plots as players in the Chinese dynasties kill their own progeny to ensure a malleable emperor will succeed. The plundering by the British of the old Imperial summer palace is shocking, and the primitive warfare of the Kachin in Burma is horrifying. Levy and Scott-Clark's descriptions put the reader right into the midst of the action: the writing is so effective that you can feel the clinging humidity of the Burmese jungle as 19th century British explorers plod along in search for the mines from whence the jadeite is extracted.

Also of tremendous interest were the passages about the Dowager Empress Cixi. If all you know about the last emperor Pu Yi is from the wonderful movie "The Last Emperor," this book will help round out some of the events and issues driving the Pu Yi story along that were alluded to in the movie. Besides, the movie's only allusion to Cixi is in the very beginning when the toddler Pu Yi is brought to the Forbidden City. Levy and Scott-Clark reveal to the reader from where Cixi came and how her desire for the jadeite was often at the core of her political machinations.

And then there are the final chapters that reveal a scenario so horrifying, so shocking that even the surrealistic visions of Francis Ford Coppola in "Apocolypse Now" cannot compare.

This is definitely the best book I've read so far this year, and probably the best book I've read in the past five years. After reading this book you will not be able to look at another piece of jadeite, no matter how beautiful, and not whince because now you know the stone's infamous history.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to lose weight and enjoy it in the process! I have about 11 of Joannas cookbooks, and this one has got to be my most favorite and most used! She has recipes for dairy mixes, main dishes salads and best of all healthy desserts! You wont be dissapointed in the selection of recipes! All the ingredients in these recipes are easy to find for the most part, and affordable!

I was very impressed with the volume of SUDAN from this series. The series as a whole is wonderful, and the SUDAN text is no exception. It's difficult to find good, recent resources about this country; this is a true find. I teach ESL and my adult students from Sudan were VERY impressed by this book. I'm actually ordering copies for a few of them for their homes!

Companion piece to "Religious Conceptions of the Stone Age" by G.R.Levy(out of print). Mankinds journey into modern thought is explored with insight and archeological precision. Compared with much of the liturature available on this subject this book shines with clarity and beautiful language. A must read for serious students of religion, anthropology, epic liturature and ancient history.