This is story of adventure and quite touching. The story is about seven children whose are good friends and they like helping people very much. Once upon a time, the Secret Seven rescued an old man, his horse and his dog. They found shelter for the old man and paid the vet. Although there were many difficulties, they tried their best to overcome them.
I chose this book as it has an attractive cover and interesting title. After reading it, I think it is quite interesting and exciting. I like the first chapter the most, it was written as an introduction for the Secret Seven. It is clearly presented it introduce the main characters naturally. The seven children were sympathetic and had warm hearts. They were willing to try hard for helping the others though they did something silly. It is so touching that makes me admire them. I enjoy this book very much as the personalities of the seven children. For example, I like the leader of the Secret Seven, Peter, very much. He is a clever boy and has good planning in doing his works. Conversely, Peter¡¦s sister, Janet, is a stupid girl. She always does some foolish things and get into trouble. Fortunately, her brother helped her to overcome many difficulties. In addition, the pictures in the book are really beautiful in order to make the whole story more attractive.
Finally, I really recommend this book to the form 4 to 6 students as I think they would be interested in this book because of the content of the story and the Secret Seven.

Notre agent à la Havanne, dans le plus pure style Graham Greene, plein d'humanisme et de violence tout à la fois, n'est pas le meilleur roman qu'il ait écrit. L'histoire peut paraître par moment biscornue et laisser le lecteur perpelexe dans le doute. Il est évident que le troisième homme ou le dixième homme sont autrement mieux ficelée et plus passionnant. Cependant, la description qui est faite de La Havanne à la veille de la révolution cubaine, des gens qui la parcoure, des habitudes tropicales qui la font vivre, sont un trésor d'information qui permet de comprendre au mieux le Cuba d'aujourd'hui. Notre agent à la Havanne ne doit pas être lu comme un roman policier classique, l'histoire n'ayant un intérêt que superficiels, mais plutôt comme un trésor ethnographique.

Are there no editors anymore? After I'd sat down with the book for less than half an hour I found numerous items that any competent editor would have found, errors that are reminiscent of what happens if I write something at three in the morning and don't check it again after getting a good nights' sleep. I found similar problems in the Sherry bio. There is an interesting book here, but the final product lacks the touch that a good editor could have lent the work.

I bought this back issue expecting a bit more Graham Greene content than I found. The remainder of the volume was a bit less coherent than the first Granta that I read. I especially enjoyed the pieces by Alice Munro and Marianne Wiggins. The "name" pieces were uniformly weak.

The main reason I bought this book is because I got three rejection letters during the last season of admissions. So, I bought the book with the hope that it will give me an insight of the admissions process in which it did. You will get all the information you need regarding how to choose the right college. What you should do during your undergraduate studies in order to make a better chance of getting acceptance. How to ask someone to write a great recommendation for you, and of course, how to write a supurb personal statement. You don't really need to have a straight A's to get into Grad. School. However, a long preparation and strong commitment is required. At the end of the admissions this year, I got five thick envelopes sending to me, now I just have to choose which one will I want to go, and one of those happens to be Harvard University.

I like this book very much. Hausa is definitely an underappreciated and underrepresented language. A great deal of Hausa scholarship is evident in the book and a real feeling for the people and the culture. The section on pronunciation is particularly valuable. Grammar and syntax are dealt with very clearly and very thoroughly. My one criticism of this book is that it needs audio support (read: tapes and/or CD). Although the explanation of the sounds of the tonal and intonational contours of Hausa is good, there really is no substitute for hearing it. The UCLA Hausa page will help a lot with learning to make the individual sounds (if you have sound files, of course) but there's no substitute for hearing spoken dialogues. I hope that there will be a new edition of this book which includes audiotapes.

This is another Rookie Reader book for beginning readers. In this book a boy and girl take a walk and tell about all the different clouds that they see. This is more realistic than some other beginning reading books where the words all seem to rhyme but don't necessarily make sense. Definitely a necessity for primary school teacher's libraries.

In writing The Intellectual Construction of America, Jack Greene pursued two different but compatible goals. His first aim was to trace the changing view intellectuals held of America from the first discovery of the new world through the establishment of the republic. To do so, he relied on the words of the premier European and American philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; preeminent intellectuals like Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Franklin, among others. In doing so, Greene hoped to achieve his second goal of disproving the currently popular belief among social historians that America was not, as their predecessors had argued, an exceptional country whose history could not be understood by using the same paradigms applied to other nations. These revisionists have argued that conditions in America were often similar to those in Europe, and that American history should be viewed as a process of class struggle between exploitative forces and ordinary Americans. Greene, however, believes that despite how ordinary people might have lived, they did not view their experiences in such a negative manner, and that furthermore, if current Americans come to do so, it will have a negative affect on how they view their country's history, and quite possibly upon how they view their role in the outside world as well.

The first goal is convincingly achieved, as Greene has amassed an overwhelming amount of primary evidence to support his assertion that the opinion makers of the day believed America to be an exceptional land, providing opportunities for freedom and prosperity that Europe, with its hierarchical social structure and lack of developable land clearly could not offer. However, he is unlikely to convince anyone that America was indeed bereft of all the social and political maladies that plagued the continent, or even that most Americans shared the views of the intellectuals he quotes, many of whom never even visited the colonies. While it certainly seems logical to assume that colonists bought into the "American dream," Greene does not offer any concrete evidence that this was the case; indeed, he does not consider any sources composed by non-elites. Moreover, he makes no attempt to disprove the quantitative evidence that for many, this "dream" remained only that, or that for others, like slaves and Amerindians, it was more correctly a nightmare. Also problematic is that Greene ends his narrative with the founding of the republic, just as class tensions in America were heating up due to the Federalist-Republican clashes over political economy. Even if scholars could agree that the ready availability of land created exceptional opportunities for social mobility and independence during the colonial period, none would dispute that with the introduction of a manufacturing and commercially based economy, The United States ceased to be a "classless" society.

Ultimately then, Greene may have proven that the concept of exceptionalism was not a nineteenth century construct, but has not shown that any but the intellectual elite believed in it, or that America continued to be exceptional into the nineteenth century.

This book was easy to read with good pictures. Very understandable. I was able to find this book in my school library (it was the only one!). I would recommend this book to kids my age that need it (I am 11 years old).

This book made me remember my childhood. The illustrations aremagnificent.