"Each spring Addie Mills looks forward to painting eggs and having a new Easter dress. This year Addie is more excited than usual when she hears that Constance Payne, a glamorous actress, will be visiting her old hometown.

Addie, who dreams of being an artist and who wants more than just an ordinary life, finds that she and Constance share the same dream. Then Addie learns some startling things about Constance. How could the woman who told Addie to always hold on to her dream let her own slip away?"

This is a brief synopsis of a wonderful installment in the series of books about Addie, a young girl growing up in a small town in the 1940s. I hope that someone puts these books back into print soon!

This updated, expanded edition celebrates Dylan's 60th birthday and includes writings by some of the notables of his time, from Ken Kesey and Joan Baez to Simon Winchester and Bruce Springsteen. Essays offer insights on his life and influences and provide a personal overview of music and history.

Lake Pylant Monhollon's Eagle Rock: The Memoirs Of A Little Girl 1941-45 is a nostalgic memoir of a simpler life and time. Quaint black-and-white silhouette-drawings by George Ann Brock nicely embellish this warmhearted remembrance of a wonderful childhood and an era when possessions were not necessarily seen as the key to all happiness. Eagle Rock is commended as an especially well written and refreshing read.

This book is written in standard Guitar/Piano format, where each line of music includes piano scores as well as guitar chord boxes (dots, no finger numbers) on top of the melody line. The 10 songs included in the selection are from 4 different albums, and copies of the album covers preceed the songs selected from that album. The printing is excellent, with a font that's good sized and easy on the eyes. There are generally four lines of music to a page. All the lyrics appear with the lines of music, making this an easy read for the beginner or memory impaired older player like myself. The songs are: Take It Easy, Witchy Woman, Lyin Eyes, Already Gone, Desperado, One of These Nights, Tequila Sunrise, Take It to the Limit, Peaceful Easy Feelin, The Best of my love. Overall, I found this to be an excellent book with a very good selection of popular Eagles tunes.

Some song will float in your head for many minutes after it is done. When you hear the first several bars of music - at first you may not know the name of the song (or who sang it), but some where from deep inside of you the words come to your mouth and you sing along with the radio. The Eagles is one of those groups that had songs you will find yourself doing just that.

Earl and Pearl The Christmas Squirrels is a very well written book. The illustrations were also superb. The author reminds us that during the holiday season, while most of us are making merry, others may not be as fortunate particularly animals. In this story, the author focuses on squirrels. The author reminds us that we need to have peace and good will to men, women, children, and especially our fellow animal friends. Our animal friends may not be as fortunate as us and we need to appreciate that. I give the story "two tails up." I recommend that you all make this story a part of your holiday tradition.

This books is really full of info thats not too difficult for my kids (which is good for me since I dont like to teach science very much) Activites are well suited as well.

The kids liked the creative writing assignment on Earthquakes.

Precise detailed listings, excellent index, should be in every rock-hounders back-pack. However, it's only failing are the rather crude maps. The maps would be more helpful if they included topographic elevation bars. But, all in all, a very delightful reference tome.

This book looks like it's going to be a GREAT asset in my mineral hunting! I like the way it's set up, by state and then by county within the state. It lists the various sites, tells what has been found at each site and (by a code explained in the front of the book) where in each site the minerals were (in a field, in a mine, in the water, etc.). I have to say, there are places here I had absolutely NO IDEA were so close to me, and in one site where I've been prospecting, it lists at least 12 other places nearby that I knew nothing about!

There are directions of varying degrees to each site. That's the one thing I'd quibble about -- some of the directions aren't that precise. But I understand that some of these sites are private lands, or not completely documented, and he can't come out and say, "Go fifty feet past the blue house, down a ravine, and to your left." In general, the directions seem good enough to get you close, and after that it's up to you.

He lists the rocks and minerals found at each site and gives some information about the quality at most places, including size of crystals found, color (and quality of color), and so on.

My only regret? I don't know if I'll have time to visit each site he has listed! So many rocks, so little time........

"Eddie Buss Rocks'" is one of the most entertaining
and well written novels I've read in quite awhile.
Speckled with dry wit and sarcasm, this book is
'un-put-downable' and makes you hungry for
William Reads next work of art! The charactor's
are so finely detailed and in deapth that they
take on a 3-d image - so real they pop out of the
pages! William Read makes Hunter S. Thompson seem tame!