Tucker and his dad live together by themselves. His siter's name is Ashley. Tucker's father and mother got divorced when Tucker was 4 and his sister was 2. Now Tucker is 11 and Ashley is 9. His mother and his siter live in Kansas. So a couple of days before school started his siter came down to visit and so she is going to go to school with him. Tucker isn't really happy about her coming down. So when she got here he was kind of being mean to her and a jerk. On the first day of school his dad said to be nice and show her arund, now Tucker wasn't really happy about that, but he tried. Tucker's best friend, Bert, and Tucker both like to hunt. Tucker is suppost to make bow- and- arrows for Bert and him, and Bert is suppost to get the license to hunt. Bert meets Ashley and he likes her because she can burp when sombody tells her to and he thinks she is funny! Tucker gets jelouse and upset because Bert doesn't care anymore about hunting and Tucker is afraid that he will lose a friend. So then they get in a fight and apoligize and they become best friends again!! Mean wile Ashley has been mailing her mom letters saying how she is doing, and that she is having fun w/ Tucker, and she keeps asking her mom if Tucker and his dad and sister and mom could be a family again. One day Tucker went and got the mail and there was a letter that was for Ashley from her mom. Tucker couldn't take it any more and so he opened it and read it.
It said how his mom was doing and that she misses Ashley. At the bottom of the letter it said that they can not be a family again and that her mom and dad are just friends.
After Tucker read it he felt sad and depressed, but he said to himself that he couldn't look sad or depressed because he didn't want to look sad in front of his sister. Now Tucker is finally starting to like Ashley and now she has to go back home and they had just gotten to know each other. Tucker asked if she could stay for a little while longer and she was able to. So now are getting to know each other and be really good friends.

This is the story of 6th grader Tucker Renfro, a boy whose dream is to be a part of a tribe, a family. His 9-year-old sister, Olivia, comes for an extended visit - the first time the two siblings have been together in seven years.

The story revails the little things that bring families together - and tears them apart. It's about Tucker coming of age. He learns that life is not always fair. Pain and pleasure go hand in hand to build a life ... a whole, full life.

My overall opinion about this book was that I found it very hard to understand and actually get into. The two things I hate most about this book was that the characters were flat, this means the characters didn't catch your attention much. Then the second thing was that they paraphrased almost everything, and I thought that was very hard to understand or even know what they were talking about. Like they would be talking about one thing then jump to something else. I would probably recommend this book to people who like Indian Cultures or like emotional books.

Well as far as a book of fiction goes..it was readable..but to say that it is a true story is beyond any wild belief.The "plot" to kidnap Jefferson Davis was at best a ill conceived "dream" of the French characters of this book. Indeed if they had a true intent to kidnap the Confederate President,they would have had several back-up plans in the event all the pieces of the original plan did not fall into place. It turns out to be little more than a story of what the Confederates believed to be neutral frenchmen, traveling from Washington City to Richmond, on a lark. The story is full of the Frenchmen's value of self-worth and the feeling that the Confederates were ignorant fools that had no place in the civilized world. This book was hardly worth the read...and I do not say that about many books.

This book is very interesting, and an easy book to read for those who do not know much about the Civil War. It tells the story that very few people know about three brave frenchmen and their plot to capture the president of the confederates, Jefferson Davis.. Including the adventures they have a few weeks before and after their plot. I would recommend this book for anyone, especially those interested in Civial War History. This book was hard to put down.

I am definately not "into" Civial War history, but I found this to be a great book. I would make the same decision in buying it again.

It's colorful and bright but just didn't portray things clearly enough. To me it's a little too stylized and there's no real dialog. I wouldn't have bought it had I known this.

This is the book our son cannot live without. He has gone through 3 copies. The illustrations and bright and beautiful. We especially like the train.

I was slightly disappointed when I received this score. While the contents of the book are exceptional - as is always the case with Dover - and the binding of the book is unusually strong - sewn, not glued - I found it disturbingly thin. Much to my dismay, I discovered that this book did not contain every piece I had expected. Perhaps I am unfamiliar with the exact contents of the "Nutcracker Suite," but all the pieces on my Nutcracker CD were NOT in this score.

99.9% of the time, Dover produces the best score available to the average consumer. This is the .1%. While it might be the best score on the market today, I found that it was not what I had wanted. Don't get me wrong - everything in the book is fantastic - I had just expected more.

I thought that this book was moving. It was not the conventinal moving but a more enlightening one. The depth and the detail that the auther goes in to are so rare to find that it is in deed a tribute to a classic. I have loved the Nutcracker sence I was a baby and this book brought it in to a whole new light. It was simply wonderful.

This book contains some great information on making potpourri and perfume components. It's information on making incense and candles is, at best, out dated and at worst useless. I've found a much better book for how to make incense, but this is a good little work. It's hard to beat it for the price. Try "Incense: Crafting & Use of Magickal Scents" or "Wylundt's Book of Incense" instead. The other reviewer is way off base about his history of incense, but this is a worthwhile book to have.

This is about the only book on the market that I've been able to find on making aromatics that isn't just stuffed with useless "new age" tripe, especially on making incense. Incense is more than 5000 years old. Wicca and the literary works it is based on have been around at most 200 years. The use of incense in Christian services alone predates the wiccan use of it by at least 1800 years, yet every reference available bombards you with the nonsensical "modern" reinterpretation.

Rubbish.

The antiquity of incense is well established, and in all that time, the process for making it has changed little.

If you are looking for a simple book on making incense, potpourri and other fragrant things, without all the odius drivel, this is the best I've been able to find to date.

One of the underlying premises of this book is that America is an ugly mess, and it is time for the federal government to step in in an enlightened way, straighten things out and make the country more like Sweden. While the book purports to deal mainly with education, the authors find it necessary to revamp the way all work is organized in the U. S., how people find jobs, health care, as well as the tax system and miscellaneous other aspects of the American experience.

The obviously well intentioned authors, one a former staffer in the Carter administration, are big believers in big government. They put forth a complex and integrated plan to revamp much of the way America works. In my opinion their macroeconomic pronouncements reveal a bias toward socialist, mercantilist economics, which causes much of their agenda to be based upon false premises, at least for application in this country. Many of the national economies the authors view with adulation are now faced with double - digit unemployment. This provides some unintended and much needed humor.

The book is at its best when it sticks to education and talks about what is going on in schools. For this analysis, and for a peek at what President Gore is likely to do about education, the book is worth a look

I deeply appreciate the marketplace viewpoints about education expressed in Marshall & Tucker's book and believe that it is an important analysis for anyone concerned with the state and direction of education today and tomorrow. Not only do the authors express their frustration with the outmoded Taylor model of classroom structure (tidy rows, teacher in front, stand and deliver--all prep for assembly line work), but also they express their concern for students to be prepared to perform in an international market.

Best of all, they spend extra time relating the influence of the Quality movement in business (TQM) and how it can and should relate to American schools in restructuring them for the 21st Century. I remain skeptical about what they say regarding the importance of standards (simply because I believe that too many teachers and community members brow beat students with high stakes testing, false incentives--A's for rewards and F's for threats, and micromanaged, ridiculous objectified norm-referenced tests), but I appreciate their call for international standards to be the only real "norm" by which we should be measuring our students.

All in all, this is an excellent study in the background motives for education, the marketplace. Imagine an education course in a major university using this book in a required reading list!

(Well, it's that good, but I hope it's not that rare.)

I am shaking as I write this. I have never read something so biased and so upsetting in my life. I am more convinced than ever after reading this book that Karla Faye Tucker got exactly what she deserved. This book portrays her as some sort of wonderful, mislead, genuine person who made a mistake. I am stunned beyond belief at this portrayal of a murderer. It sounds to me after reading this book, that Karla Faye did not make any genuine changes, she just simply learned how to play the game, and in this case ultimately and fortunatley did not win.

As one of the people who is intimately involved in the case that this literary piece is supposed to be realistically portraying, I am surprised that anyone could believe that any of this actually happened the way the author portrays it. The convicted murderer is shown as being a wonderful person. I have not met too many "wonderful" people who are capable of swinging a pick axe into two different people more than 60 different times and enjoying it so much that they told several people that they had a sexual orgasm with each swing. That is sick. This was not an isolated incident; within a day after the first two murders, this individual was planning several more murders which would have been carried out if she had not been apprehended. She had no religion and no remorse until AFTER she was in jail. The reason I know all this? Tucker murdered my wife, Deborah Ruth Thornton. Don't waste your money on this trash.

"Compassion" seems to be in short supply when it comes to Karla Faye Tucker --- starting with then-Gov. Bush's smirk on the occasion of her execution and continuing in these reader comments. This she-got-what-she-deserved feeling stems, I think, from the view that People Don't Change. What grim philosophy! Change --- the hope of it, the longing for it --- is, in fact, what drives most evangelical religions. Given that, you'd think Karla Faye Tucker would be the Poster Child for Christian conversion. She never denied the terrible crimes she committed, she prostrated herself before her Lord, and, if you believe her, Jesus bathed herin His love. That is the subject of the book Beverly Lowry has written --- a book powered by a head-splitting irony: The murderesss gives comfort to the professional writer (a mother whose son was killed in an unsolved highway accident). My advice: Just read the book. Decide for yourself.

This work suffers immeasurably because the author apparently has no training in writing and limited exposure to works of literary merit. The errors in grammar, mechanics, and punctuation enhance the mistakes with sentence formation, word choice, and outdated and overused metaphors. Problems with plot abound. For example, Carolyn learns she is sterile; two pages later she is pregnant. Furthermore, the one paragraph resolution to the source of the mysterious thefts is again the work of an author with an idea but with no clue on how to end her work. We need outlines to tell us where we've been and where we're going.

The english and grammer in this book are well suited for the population of Wayne County. I thought it was a good book.

I loved the way this author put this book together. I'm an avid reader and I live to read. The story was written so that my intelect was stimulated, yet my 14 year old read it and not only understood it but loved it. It's hard to believe that a nurse who never even wrote a poem before could come out of a coma and do this work alone. I am waiting for her next book.

A 202-page paperback ... welcome to a typical McFarland "book."No new information, as the author simply took several earlier books and 'digested' them into this TOTAL waste of money.Who would want to pay ...for a 'work' that consists, primarily, of an episode guide for the tv show?Only TWENTY pages (out of a slim 202) are devoted to Eliot Ness.Then, about 20 more to the "real Al Capone and Frank Nitti."Then, on page 49, this so-called author starts in on movies and tv.So, in sum, if you want information on Eliot Ness, go elsewhere.And, save your $ ...I wish I had.

The most comprehensive book ever written about the Untouchables! You can find everything you ever wanted to know about Eliot Ness and his arch enemies Al capone and Frank Nitti. A brief historical background about the real characters, the making of the pilot episode, the original series starring Robert Stack, the 1987 movie, the new series. A very detailed episode guide is also provided for both the series. This is the book that every fan of the Untouchables must have.

Although I am mostly a science fiction fan, I've always loved Walter Mosley's books. The farther afield he has stretched in the past from the detective stories that made him famous, the better I liked him -- his Gone Fishin' and Always Outnumbered are even better than his mysteries. So I figured that Mosley and science fiction would be two great tastes that taste great together.

I was wrong. In his efforts to convince us of the earth-shattering importance of the events of his story, he resorts to telling us over and over again that they are important, rather than giving us facts that would lead us to decide for ourselves that they are. In his efforts to convince us those affected by the Blue Light of the title are more than human, he has his worshipful protagonist Chance tell us over and over how trancendent they are, even though many of them seem less functional, and far less interesting, than the ordinary humans who usually populate Mosely works. Also, Mosely seems intentionally to piece out the stories of the various characters in such a way that just when we are starting to get into them, the narrative switches to another storyline. As a result, the book never gains momentum. Mosely did a better job creating a story arc that carried us along with it in his collection of short stories, Always Outnumbered, than he does in this novel.

Another thing: I am not much of a fan of protagonists who do very little, and Chance is one of these passive protagonists. Even when he does have one of his rare bouts of action or feeling, he is invariably wrong or manages to embarrass himself somehow. I know this is a matter of taste, but frankly, I did not like or enjoy any major character in this book.

Mosely's way with language is really the only bright spot I saw in Blue Light. He is a true prose stylist and deserves the praise reserved for self-indulgent peacocks like David Guterson. Even when, as here, he writes something I don't like, I like the way he writes about it.

I am not much for mysteries and never enjoyed Mosley much, but I liked this book a lot. Probably Mosley fans won't like it at all. I didn't even find it very science fictioness. And the review that tell's Mosley to let Dean Koontz write this stuff ignores how terrible Koontz is and how great this story is. Blue Light is positively lyrical. Which makes it slightly difficult to read at times, but well worth the effort. One of my favorite books of the year.

Before I purchased this book I took a look at the reviews of other Amazon customers and momentarily thought of passing on this Mosley novel. However, based on the strength of Mosley's past work I ordered Blue Light. This was definitely the right thing to do. Blue Light read like free prose and forced me to gaze at Mosley's vision through un-Easy eyes. Although I am a rabid fan of his Rawlins series this book is vastly different and indicates that Mosley is in the midst of a metamorphosis. Fans of the Rawlins series should suspend their expectations of another riveting Easy story and focus on a new cast of characters that are just as riveting. Mosley is obviously exploring outside of his Easy Rawlins series and doing a spectacular job of it. I am eagerly awaiting a continuation that will reveal the fate of the Blues, Chance, & the Gray Man. I hope that you as a reader will not pigeonhole Mosley into being just another "mystery" writer, but support him in his exploration of the myriad of stories he can tell.