This book offers an intelligent, sometimes painfully honest, account of a teenager, Sara, suffering from severe depression. It is a touching and insightful novel, told from several viewpoints, and lightened with humour. The characterisation is strong and Sara's relationships with her parents, her brother and her therapist are well-drawn and entirely credible. The way in which animals/fish are involved in Sara's recovery should appeal to all animal lovers and convince more sceptical readers of the value of pet therapy. It is a book which deepens one's understanding of this frightening condition and ends on a hopeful, but not unrealistic note.

A Beautiful Picture Book of the Hollywood Bowl. I highly recommend it to Bowl fans, movie buffs, and all those interested in the history of Hollywood.

As a horse crazy youngster, summer riding camp was one of my favourite things. A whole glorious week, away from the city. Nothing but trees, as far as the eye can see.

But what to do in the middle of a snowy Canadian winter, when camp seemed a million miles away? Well, I did the next best thing to camp, I pulled out my book about camp!

Virginia Vail's "Horseback Summer" was one of my favourites. I only owned the first and the fourth of the Horse Crazy series, to this day, I don't know how the story ends.

I made good use of that book though, I read it over, and over and over...I could probably quote the whole thing right now! It's a wonderful story, about Emily Jordan's summer at Webster's Country Horse Camp.

Emily was supposed to be going with her best friend, Judy, but Judy fell out of a tree while trying to rescue her cat and broke her leg. Emily felt lost with out Judy, they had been friends since they were three and had done everything together, even get chicken pox's!!

Emily feels better after arriving at camp, and talking to Marie, one of the owners of the camp. Marie tells her about the first time she went to camp without her twin sister. It doesn't take Emily long to adjust to camp, who couldn't with all those beautiful horses around?

But camp isn't all fun, Caroline Lescaux is used to getting all she wants, And what she wants is Emily's horse!! Emily is not a fighter, but she will do anything to keep Joker!

Find out what happens to Emily In this exciting book, Horseback Summer by Virginia Vail. It will bring those wonderful memories of summer camp rushing back to you.

I am a third grade teacher always looking for text to share with my students that will improve their writing skills. Hotter Than a Hot Dog! is packed with metephors, similies, descriptives, and action verbs that any child can understand. It is a good way to get children excited about writing and an excellent example to encourage students to include details that will make them better writers!

Great book, well written, and worth tracking down!

This book captures the imagination of readers at all levels. It depicts wonderful word choice, and can be described as one of those books you just can't put down.

Two students choose to skip the end-of-the-year school picnic, and take a trip by themselves into outerspace looking for rare stones. They are kidnapped by aliens and taken to a planet which is not part of their own friendly galaxy. The kids survive a "circus," an alien version of the ancient Roman Gladiators. Afterwards they are sent to the emporer who then dresses them up like monkeys to infiltrate an enemy planet and rescue his daughter. You'll have to read it to find out how they get back to Earth.

This book is very hard to find, but it is worth the search!

There's nothing overtly fancy or flashy about this book, or the others in the series by Maine author Agell. Just a simple day at the beach for a little girl and her father, while mom stays home with the baby. It just so happens that this simple story mirrors our own family's summer activities, and we love to turn to this book again and again. Plus it's small and easy for little hands to hold.

Following his wife's death, Terrence finds himself in the Aegaen where he joins Toscari's diving expedition to find sunken treasure. Stefania, who blames Terrence for her sister's death, follows him to Greece with the purpose of revenge. She join's the diving expedition and goes with it to Trukey.However, she is indecisive about killing Terrence and instead falls in love with him.Eventually,they become lovers and Terrence discovers Stefania's true identity. Meanwhile,Atlas falls in love with Stefania and is determined to seduce her,even if that entails deceiving her and stkoing her desire for vengence. Stefanai's thirst for revenge and her internal conflict, her love and hate for Terrence, and how Atlas impacts her conflicted emotions, is what drives the narrative and is at the heart of the story.
Beautifully written,I throughly enjoyed this journey of love,adventure, and intrigue.

Compiled, edited and Annotated by Mary J. Straw Cook, Immortal Summer: A Victorian Woman's Travels In The Southwest is a collection of letters and black-and-white photographs by Amelia Hollenback, a Victorian woman who had the opportunity to see 1897 America with her own eyes. With extensive contextual annotation, Immortal Summer is a vivid, superbly organized and presented primary source which takes in what American life, land and people were really like more than a century ago. One curious note: Author and historian Mary Cook lives in Santa Fe in the very house that Amelia Hollenback commissioned John Gaw Meem to build in 1932!

Consider the opossum -- easily the most underestimated and least-regarded of all God's creatures. Yet, beneath its unprepossessing exterior beats the heart of a mighty warrior, and its beady little eyes give little hint of the shrewd intellect that hides behind them! This rollicking adventure yarn is the story of a single mighty marsupial, and the impact his fur-covered, vaguely rat-like presence had on three lonely kids in the suburbs of Washington, DC.

Washington, DC, you say? Surely the surrounding municipalities are naught but soulless concrete and macadam expanses! Opossums are creatures of the wilderness, where they roam free and untrammeled by the laws of Man! How could such suburban terrain offer any home to the plucky pouched perambulators in question? Easy! Unassuming in mien and strangely loveable in demeanor, the awesome opossum is tough, tenacious and territorial. The species arouse in South America (where life was and is cheap), along with other pouched compadres, even as placental counterparts evolved in North America. When the land bridge of Central America rose from the waters, the placental mammals migrated South and wiped out the indigenous species -- except for the mighty opossum. With its nightmarish claws and near-prehensile tale, not to mention its cunning strategy of feigning faint ("playing 'possum"), the white-furred wonders soon carved out a place for themselves in the North American food chain (somewhere above cat food and below hillbillies). Now, no patch of park bigger than my mother's apron is free of the cuddly night-crawlers!

This book is a lot of fun. It reminds me of E. Nesbit's work, and all those English kids novels about young ones who have adventures while their parents are off crushing rebellions in India or something. I wish that there had been more of the talking opossum in it, but that's probably because I just can't get enough of those whisker-snouted wayfarers.