This book helped me to discover, while my daughter was still an infant, that she is a mover type of learner. According to the author, this type of learner tends to be the least successful in school. However, this book taught me how to build on my child's innate style to develop her other capabilities as "looker" and "listener". Now, at almost 5 years of age, my daughter has a more balanced learning style and is doing wonderfully in preschool. Even though not all of the games, toys, and other resources recommended in the book are available where I live, the concepts are clear enough so that I am able to apply them with the things that are within my reach. This would make an excellent gift to new parents.

What a wonderful book this is! Dr. Lauren Bradway and Barbara Albers Hill do an excellent job of describing what "Looker", "Listener", and "Mover" children are. They also show parents how they can help their children become a more "balanced learner"!

I enjoyed reading the examples of each child's learning style, and was appreciative for the many informative checklists spread throughout the book. Parents can discover what kind of learning style their child has, and put to use the many wonderful suggestions provided throughout the book. These ideas will show parents how they can help their children develop their own style of learning.

My ParenTime recommends "How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability" -- it's informative, easy-to-read, and full of creative suggestions that parents can immediately put to use in their own families!

Those caught up in the hype of the movie *The Patriot* will be eager to read this extensively researched and captivating narrative of a true patriot from South Carolina during the American Revolution. Massey brings John Laurens to life in this superb biography of a planter's son-become-military-hero who believed in giving slaves who fought for the American cause their freedom.

I think that it's cool that Dr. Massey is one of my professors! I'm at Freed-Hardeman University in West Tennessee and we're a pretty small school, so it's neat to have a professor who's published!

Tasty food that is easy to prepare. Minimum of prep time, easy to follow instructions. I am getting another copy of this to give to my friend who can barely boil water. Even my husband (who had a hard time making mac and cheese) can cook with this book. A great book for someone with a minimum of time and effort that still wants home cooked meals.

I am very impressed with this book. The wide variety of recipes and types of food that you can make with boiling is fascinating. I never expected to be able to cook so much with just a pot (or two) and a stove top. Very few of the recipes require anything exotic so most of the ingredients are on hand when you are ready to whip up something good. The directions are clear and easy to follow. The meals are fairly easy to make and come out tasting great!

If you are looking for a cookbook that has easy to make meals with a minimum of fuss, this is a good cookbook to consider. I'm not sorry it's on my shelves.

Quoted from review in CHOICE, Feb.02: Modeled after Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale (1990), this life-and-times, detailed, and closely written study takes its starting point from her posthumous memoir, edited by her husband and published as a model for American Protestant women in the 19th century. As a strong-willed daughter of an American revolutionary leader and mother of 11, she fashioned a life that "developed, elasticized and resisted the claims of patriarch and family." The diary's silences, especially about slavery, were sometimes as eloquent as its formulaic language of pietism. Warmly understanding of her but frankly revealing her as an unexpectedly interesting subject. Useful and recommended for teaching early American history/ women/ religion.

This is a wonderful book! Starting with Martha Laurens Ramsey's brief pious memoir, Joanna Gillespie has reconstructed Martha's life in colonial South Carolina. Reading it, I felt as if I had been plunged into the planter society of the Carolina low country during the American Revolutionary period. The close cultural and economic ties with England, the changed definition of "citizenship" as independence created a new republic, and the unspoken contradiction of a "free" nation whose economic foundation was built on slavery are all presented with amazing insight and depth. Above all, the secret heart of Martha Laurens Ramsey is exposed. Defined both by her intellectual gifts and her pious search to understand God's Providence, Martha uses her secret diary as a way to analyze the conflicting demands of husband, family and society, With extensive contextual material, Gillespie has transformed those scattered thoughts into a sensitive and complex portrait of a remarkable woman and the era in which she lived.

Quirky, jokey, outrageous and fun. That's about how you'd describe this further account of Lauren Laurano's sleuthing exploits. While not as good as other Laurano outings, this one has a charm of its own and a story line that is a real page-turner. I'd never leave unread any Scoppettone book I might come across at the library.

I think Sandra Scoppetone is great. Lauren gives Kinsey a runfor her money any day in my book. As fast as Sandra can write, I'llbe ready to read, keep Lauren and Kip together!! END

I have not read the book, but have been trying to locate a copy. One of the main characters, Stan Donaldson, was my paternal Uncle. This book is not a work of fiction. For those who have read the book, my Uncle Stan remained in Singapore and Malaysia for the rest of his life. He married, although he had no children. He became a racehorse jockey, and upon retiring, went on to manage a "racehorse spelling staion," a kind of rest home for race horses. Uncle Stan died in Malaysia in the mid-1990's in a car accident; while his driver was negotiating down the mountain the brakes failed. Stan was in perfect health until then...Sir Laurens van der Post and Stan remained in touch through the years up until Stans death, visiting Sir Laurens whenever Stan went back to England. For the record, Stan Donaldson was not a Scot as the book says, but an Englishman.

Like in the novel "The Seed and the Sower" this novel is also based on Laurens Van der Post's experiences in a Japanese prison camp during the 2nd World War. An outstanding book that not only recounts the harships and atrocities prisioners had to live through but also manages to provide an insightful and compassionate comtemplation of human violence and the japanese culture and morality. Astonishingly vivid, the author magically retrieves love, dignity, companionship and noble understanding of the japanese mind during a bitter experience of hunger, loss and pain.

I found the QRI great for assessing the reading ability of elementary students. However, I found it did not give me accurate grade level information for Junior High or High School students.
The QRI gave a general "Middle School," and "High School" diagnostic reading level, but did not designate the individual grade level in these categories.

The Qualitative Reading Inventory-3 by Lauren Leslie and Joanne Caldwell is a special education reading teacher's godsend in light of recent changes in idea. This tool gives a very specific oral reading instruction level. In addition, however, this tool also gives teachers a comprehension reading instruction level, an approximate instructional level for fluency, and silent reading instructional levels. If present level of performance in reading is hanging you up when writing those present levels of performance each quarter. I highly recommend this book.

This book is very fulfilling. It gives you some sense of closure. Some would think witchcraft is an unnatural way of being happy, but thats not necessarily true. There's always spellcrafting, which naturally comes from you. THis is a good book, I recommend it.

cute illustrations and easy spells-wonderful for the beginner-White's humor and creativity make it simple and fun to live a more "charmed" life.

I just finished reading The Stubborn Twig today. I love to spend hours in bookstores looking for different kinds of books and am pretty quick at purchasing what I know I will like. This book intrigued me just by the title - it went right to the top of the pile of books that I brought home that day. I started reading it right away.

The story deals with how the Yasui family copes with the trials and daily living of being different. It also gives a look into how they at times fit in with their white (hakujin) neighbors and no one noticed.

The story is both touching and exciting as the reader goes through the generations of Yasui's and how they feel about the world around them.

I think that Ms. Kessler did a very good job of telling the story of each family member while weaving them into the importance of the famliy as a whole. I too come from a large family with generations of history. It has inspired me to start better record-keeping for my own children and the ones to come.

I never knew of the reasons behind the internment of the Japanese Americans during the war. This book not only gives facts and history but the details of how real people had to cope to survive. I recommend this book to anyone interested in history, and an admirable approach to finding the courage to start over in life.

I found this book while browsing in the stacks one day. I had no idea that Japanese had been imported to build the Railroads in the Northwest during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (this was because Chinese were not available... laws had been passed making their immigration to the US illegal), and mainly ONLY MEN. It was a real eye-opener (I have seen NO such information ever in any US History book I read in school, and I am born and educated in the US -- graduated from UC Berkeley).

This book is very easy to read and become engrossed into. I could not do anything else in my spare time other than work on finishing reading this. It goes a long way to filling in much of the missing pieces with Japan of US History before, during, and after WWI and WWII.

Most US Citizens NEVER heard of Min Yasui, a newly minted Lawyer and Japanese-American US Citizen (by birth) from Hood River, Oregon, who decided to challenge Executive Order 9066 by deliberately disobeying it, getting arrested, charged, convicted, and put into Solitary Confinement for the duration of WWII even as the US Supreme Court ruled against him regarding the Constitutionality of it. And, yes folks, Executive Order 9066 could be reissued today, against anyone (even you), without Due Process. You too could be treated just like the Yasui's, ripped out of your job and home, have your bank accounts frozen, told you had 48 hours to pack and could only bring what you personally could carry with your hands and nothing more... and then lose your property and home when you could not pay the property taxes (because your Bank Accounts had been frozen by the Federal Government).

You say you're a US Citizen? So were the Yasui's (except for Min and his wife, who were prohibited by Federal Law from ever becoming Naturalized Citizens -- a Law that was not changed until 1958!! Whites could, and Blacks after the Civil War in 1865 were added to the list. But Asians were never mentioned anywhere. It didn't say they could not, but it didn't say they could either. It just didn't say... and so the US Supreme Court ruled that Asian Immigrants were EXCLUDED from ever becoming Naturalized US Citizens. Hard to believe? Read about how the Yasui's coped with this issue. And the next time you eat an apple from a box marked HOOD RIVER, OREGON... you will know "the Rest of the Story... ".

This book should be Required Reading for anyone taking or even remotely interested in US History.

This is one of Stephenie Laurens' early works which are all good. In fact, I much prefer her early Regencies which are great fun to read because of its humour and subtlety. They have the Regency feel. My only complaint is that they are all out-of-print and hard to get. If you see one, grab it.

Miss Dorothea Darent has no intentions of ever getting married -- she considers herself not comely enough and definitely past marriage age. Then she is kissed [most improperly] by the Marquis of Hazelmere, a notorious scoundrel.
Dorothea will go to London because her grandmother Lady Merion is to present her and her sister Cicely. In London she meets up again with Marc Henry, the Marquis of Hazelmere and his friends -- Lord Fanshawe [who promptly falls for Cecily] and Hazelmere's cousin Ferdie.
Lord Hazelmere helps foil two abduction attempts of Dorothea and enlists his numerous friends to watch over Dorothea when he is called away from London.
Their tangled communications are definitely made more so when it is hinted to Dorothea that Hazelmere is keeping Lady Helen Walford as his mistress. Oh horrors, and she gives him the cut direct.
This is a story you will enjoy reading and don't forget to read the follow up, "Fair Juno" --- both books are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- and just a note - that both stories are reprinted in "A SEASON for SCANDAL".