I work in a college career center in the Orlando Metro area and this book is one of the most valuable resources that is available for our students who want to find a job locally. My only wish is that a new edition, which would include all available websites, be published now.

I loved this very emotional story set in the hills of Virginia. Several times while reading it tears came to my eyes because you are so drawn to this family, their accomplishments and pain touch your heart. I enjoy the history along with the story, I put it down with the feeling not only had I read a wonderful novel I learned something along the way. Another highly recommended story! You MUST pick this one up!

This is my 8-year-old son's favorite book. The story of the Bobbity brothers' big squabble, which leads to Henry's disappearance and Billy's journey through a very funny future-world to find him, entranced David the first time we read it, at age six -- and has continued to entrance him through hundreds of readings since. The meter and rhyme of the text, the inventive word-play, and the charming illustrations (LOADED with details that are fun to find) all combine to make a book you won't mind reading again and again.

Rap, raves, gangs, Columbine ... one can read all sorts of things
about American teenagers today, but read this book for a real and
respectful view of their lives, their experiences, and their
perceptions of the world around them.

Herb Childress spend a year
with the teenagers of what could be a suburb anywhere in America in
the past 40 years. As an adult you will recognize the places and
experiences he describes from your own teenage years and you will gain
terrific insight into what the teenagers in your life are experiencing
now.

Dr. Childress pulls no punches in his descriptions of the
teenagers, the adults, and the places that influence their lives -
everything from the coach- turned-high-school principal to the
playground signs forbidding children from running while in the
park.

This book offers information that is difficult to impossible
to find elsewhere. A book for every parent, teacher, administrator,
health care worker, archtect or public servant -- if you ever were a
teenager or if you know any teenagers, this is a must read book.

The
first part of this book describes the lives and experiences of the
teenagers in "Curtisville" a real town in Northern
California. In the second part of this book, Dr. Childress describes
and analyzes the environments and the situations teenagers so often
find themselves in - places ranging from the cost-saving State-wide
design of the high school that fails to provide shelter from the 6
months of winter rain to the layout of the town streets and shops that
makes walking and "hanging out" unpleasant if downright
impossible, it's all here in black and white.

Dr. Childress set
out to study three simple questions: How do teenagers use spaces? How
do they apply meanings and values to any particular places? How do
conflicts about those places arise between teens and adults and
between particular subsets of teens, and how are those conflicts
resolved? He spent a year finding the answers to these questions and
found that the ideas of joy and flow are at the heart of all of them.
Let Dr. Childress and the teenagers of Curtisville share that flow and
joy with you, and maybe we can make the world a better place for all
of us.

This book is not only fascinating, it is a pleasure to read.
Dr. Childress is a consummate storyteller, and he tells the story of
life as an American teenager with truth and compassion.

Like One of the Family by Alice Childress is an excellent book. It reminds me of the stories that my mother use to and quite often still do tell me. My mother use to be a maid some 35 years ago. Some of the stories shared in the book are similiar to the stories that my mom tells me about quite frequently. This book makes me laugh and cry. I can truly feel the characters joys and pains. It transcends me back to a time that I can only relate to by storytelling. A college professor required me to read this book. I have read it more than two times and quite often refer back to it for a connection with my ancestors. I often share some of the stories with my mom. She's often amazed at how an artist was able to put such honesty and realization in text. I salute Alice Childress!

This book defines the David Hatcher Childress experience. From the cover panorama of the Lost City of the Incas, to the women, to the Carnival adventure, you will enjoy this outing.

My toes are still tapping from the music at that sidewalk cafe.

This book, although somehwhat cryptically written--in the uncomfortable vernacular of JFK assassination research buffs--nevertheless is in my estimation a valuable addition to JFK assassination research. Anyone who is up on this literature has to have a good "crap detection" system, and this selection seems to have passed the test with flying colors. Since the early 70s, all serious roads to discovering who killed JFK seem to be leading back to tying up the loose ends left by the Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation. And since there were many such loose ends to tie up, doing so is not a small job. Torbitt has hit pay dirt, and at the very least, pushes Garrison's investigation to the next research frontier--if not to the very edge of completely uncovering the assassination plot. Yet, there are questions this research raises itself. For instance, I am not yet convinced of the Nazi connections--even though there is much circumstantial evidence to support Torbitt's point of view. Despite my misgiving, this piece is coherent in the extreme and can stand on its own. We know that when the conspiracy is finally uncovered, the truth will have its own unmistakable context, and this book has the "smell of truth."

The intricacies of this historical and modern day novel are so detailed, it was like being taken back in time. I learned alot about the time of the Cathars. The descriptions of the characters and locations were vivid and alive. The drama and surprises were so engrossing I did not hear the announcement that my plane was leaving and missed the last flight of the day to my destination. It was worth it!

Dr. Alvin Granowsky has written a number of fairy tale-revisionist combination stories, and this pair is a fine example of what the genre has to offer. Both tales are illustrated with line drawings and each is well told, combining the best principles of language building, such as a better-than-average vocabulary and a mix of sentence lengths, without sacrificing an evocative and plausible narrative flow. The revisionist story is told by the stepmother, who contends that Snow White has resented her since her arriva; Snow White has convinced other people that her stepmother is trying to kill her.

These books are a wonderful mechanism for children who are just beginning to understand that other minds have other thoughts. The stories are well-told -- entertaining and instructive. Why lecture to your kids about morality when with a story they can begin to figure it out for themselves?

I think that this book is so very interesting. It hold your interest from cover to cover. When you start reading it, you have to finish. I would tell anyone to invest in this book for one day, it will be a valuable book, one that goes down in history.