Last St. Valentine's Day, Harris played a practical joke on Greta by sneaking a slug into her backpack, and this year it's payback time! But, when Harris retaliates for Greta's 'Valenslime' practical joke, a practical joke war begins. Will this joke-conflict end their friendship? Read the book, and find out!

My 11-year-old daughter brought this book to my attention. It is extremely attractive, and includes seven message-taunts (complete with decorated envelope) that went along with the practical jokes! These envelopes make reading the book quite an adventure.

Even though the book is listed for ages 4-8, I would recommend this book for older readers who have a good sense of humor. Overall, my daughter and I both thought that this was a great book, and we both recommend it to you!

"Bear Man of Admiralty Island" is an extremely interesting and detailed study of a true American character, Allen Hasselborg. The stark, simple life Hassleborg lived for many years, in a remote, beautiful, wild, and dangerous place, makes the likes of Thoreau, Burroughs, Dillard, and the many other part-time shack dwelling, nature praising authors seem like commonplace pretenders in comparison. Where they wrote about life in the woods, he really lived it, and the details are fascinating. Were it not for Howe's research, I'm sure we'd never know about Hasselborg's life, and were Hasselborg alive today, I'm sure he wouldn't give a gall-dang anyway!

My mohter-in-law just bought this book for my 3 year old, who loves any and all books. She prefers story time over playtime and would love if someone could read to her all the time. I would say every book was her favorite, until now. Jezabel Jones, Jezabel Jones, Jezabel Jones is all we hear now. I think we have read this book 3-4 times a day for the past 3 months. This is one of the best gifts WE could have ever received. This funny, ryming and clever book just seems to stay with you, I still laugh even after the 500th time! This one will be around our house for many years to come and look forward to reading more from Bill Grossman.

This catalogue has excellent photographs that gives one a sense of the attitude of the Beat Generation. Everyone is familiar with the writers of the period, but not everyone knows about art generated during those years. This catalogue gives a review of art, film, and writing being created at the time. Not only that but it devotes a chapter to women and a chapter to minorites working during the time period. A good source of information for anyone interested in the 1950's to the early 1960's.

I lived in The City from '67 to '73 and was there during the heyday of Haight Ashbury and the mammoth explosion of all that was pre-Altimont but for some strange reason Beat San Francisco was far more important in my memory than The Haight. The reasons probably have much to do with why I finished Morgan's short book in only a day because I became so involved in his descriptions of the places that I considered my San Francisco-all of Upper Grant after it crosses Columbus with Caffe' Trieste and the New Pisa and of course City Lights, Discovery and Vesuvio with Tosca watching from the other side of the street.

Even though I now live on the other side of the planet, these places are burned into my memory. They're memories of cold winter evenings searching for the inevitable bargain in Discovery and then going next door to City Lights to troll through its basement looking at all the titles that I wanted but couldn't afford as a student. And on Saturday afternoons going into Trieste and buying a cafe' and knowing that not so many years ago this place was the epicenter for guys that wore old berets, had beards and thought.

I am indebted to Bill Morgan for writing such a heartwarming look back at a time and place that will go on in the hearts of Americans that realize there was a recent time when things could have gone another way. It didn't happen but with people like him keeping the memory alive and people who care enough to take pictures of City Lights for people like me who remember- perhaps all has not been lost.

Buy the book and revisit these modern American icons before they are redeveloped.

Sam Appleby doesn't appreciate the fact that his father won't let him have guns and swords like his friends, so when a thief comes to town, the two of them use a wide array of items from a sunflower to a chocolate cake to successfully stop him. This book is very funny and will be enjoyed by every child that ever waved a stick as a weapon, and by every parent that tried to explain why this isn't always the best of ideas.

For a book that was written in 1978, it's nothing less than remarkable how very timely this novel is. Certainly, it's indicative of the fact that, despite the gains women have made, the moves forward have been in very small increments. Dealing with several issues (pornography, divorce, loneliness) Allen takes us along with Sidonie Graham on a journey of self discovery that is alternately disturbing and invigorating. It is, in essence, a learning experience, in the course of which the heroine finds that there are far worse things in life than being alone/single. Refreshingly, the author refrains from tying everything up in shiny ribbons at the end and sending her heroine off, hand-in-hand, with a new partner. Rather, Sidonie goes forward with new fondness for and awareness of herself. A novel with quirky characters and an unpredictable plot-line, yet again author Allen takes us down a memorable road. Each of her books is different; each is a thoughtful study of human potential. That is, perhaps, why she is not a household name. But she deserves to be. This is yet another insightful examination of yet another of Allen's unique, forgivably flawed, heroines.

An exciting account of medieval sexuality? Surprisingly, yes. Loyola University English professor Frantzen brings the "shadows" of same-sex relations ("as closely attached to heterosexual relations as shadows are to their objects") into relief by highlighting their centrality in everything from operatic "trouser roles," in which women dress as men in ambiguous visions of female-female desire, to the dances of Mark Morris, which "offer gay people entertainment and affirmation of the highest order." Turning to his specialty, Frantzen reveals an Anglo-Saxon world much less prudish than we are accustomed to imagining. Where "queer theory" has sought to uncover gay liberation in the past, his "assimilationist" model never limits same-sex desire to genital contact. An engaging and witty guide to tales of cross-dressing saints, legal codes paying much more attention to heterosexual than homosexual misbehavior and references to "Sodom and Gomorrah" less severe than one would expect, he discovers both self-identified same-sex lovers and a culture that allowed them a certain license. Pointing out the nationalist chauvinism of the numerous historians who have labeled William the Conqueror's son gay, Frantzen also makes clear the vast difference between medieval and modern conceptions of sexual identity. Frantzen's marvelous book, concluding with a fascinating discussion of how Angels in America reverses Anglo-Saxon codes of national unification, opens up a world most readers will never have even known was there. It's a difficult topic, but Frantzen's comprehensive, readable and even wryly funny treatment makes this an unexpected pleasure. (0ct.)

This is a great reference -text book- for anyone who wants to learn about the principles of interior decorating or interior design. From learning the elements of design, to being able to understand what defined the style or interior decor of an era. Lots pictures, illustrations and at the end of each chapter you can test your acquired knowledge by answering its questions and/or doing the hands-on-assignement. If you are serious about learning the ABC of decorating, this is the book for you.

I loved this book. I read it to 6 different classrooms )gradesK and 1) All of them enjoyed it. The two girls, one white and one black, talk about their friendship. Sometimes they like that same things and sometimes they don't. But they are still best friends. I have also purchased this for our church library. It teaches the best way to be a friend without being at preachy. The illustrations are delightful