This book is a great way to interest students in the subject you are trying to teach. I am a high school Family & Consumer Sciences teacher and find this book very helpful when I am teaching communication, self esteem, and health issues. Jackson's lesson plans are easy to follow and easy to modify. Highly recommended for any teacher.

Jackson's activities are fun, pertinent, and easy. Each "lesson plan" consists of topic area, concept, method, time & materials needed, activity, and discussion ideas. This book has been a life-saver, not just when I was a first year counselor, but daily as I've planned classroom and/or small group activities.

Alex Jackson: Grommet by Pat Flynn is a superbly written novel for teens about Alex Jackson, a talented skateboarder who has to come to terms with a school bully, falling in love, and handling the social aspects of high school. Alex Jackson: Grommet is recommended as being an engagingly, deftly written story about handling common teenage trials.

Alex Jackson: grommet is about a 13-year-old skateboarder who lives in a tough suburb of Logan City, Australia. He is an ordinary boy with a wicked sense of humour-- and apart from his reputation as a skate-grom, does his best to fit in anonymously at his first year of high school.

Things change when he falls for the mysterious Becky Tonella and invokes the wrath of school tough-guy, Billy Johnstone. Through a mixture of luck and advice from his father, an ex-boxer, he manages to win both the fight and the girl. However, Billy swears revenge and Becky's life is slowly unravelling.

Pat Flynn understands what it is like to be a teenager and has produced a funny, fast-paced first novel. Short chapters and sentences that almost read themselves mean it won't scare away the slower readers. A real winner among 10-14 year-old boys, and girls.

For my siblings and me, the absolute favorite book from our childhood that certainly deserves resurrection. Its wonderful and mostly humorous Christmas stories and poems are centered around animals and all subtly present caring and giving as their centerpiece. The Richard Scarry illustrations that accompany it are fantastic.

My parents read this book to me when I was a child and I've always loved it. My favorite poem in it is called "A Pigs Merry Christmas". In it a pig goes to the store to shop for friends and ends up buying only for himself...late he sees that it's much more fun to give than to get!

This is a fascinating book about a young woman's search for her father who has disappeared in Alaska. In addition to the mystery there is romance involved. The story is fiction but the locale is authentic and you will know more about Alaska after reading the book. There are some surprises and you will enjoy reading this novel as well as other books by these authors.

I've always wanted to go to Alaska and reading this book was just like being there. Arctic Legacy is exciting! I enjoyed the fast action and the appealing characters.

This book gives us what paul Valery thinks, and what he thinks is the forgotten basis of many thoughts

This book contains some of the most inspiring prose written in this century, in a truly incomparable translation. it doesn't get much better than this. READ IT

The Growing Edge is a magazine designed and published for readers with an interest in gardening, horticulture, and hydroponics. The Best of Growing Edge II: Popular Hydroponics and Gardening for Small-Commercial Growers and Hobbyists is a compilation of the best of the magazine's articles originally published between 1994 and 1999. The various articles are grouped into chapters: Introduction to Hydroponics; The Basic Elements of Hydroponics; Building Your Own System; Plants You Can Grow Hydroponically; Breeding and Propagation; Pest & Disease Control; Greenhouse Management; Organics and Hydroponics; Beyond the Basics; Small Commercial Growers; Hydroponics in Education and Public Service. The Best of Growing Edge II is an essential title for personal, professional, academic, and public library hydroponic gardening and horticultural reference collections.

The Best of Growing EDGE is a collection of the best articles, by twenty four different authors, from the first five years of Growing EDGE magazine. It covers hydroponics, greenhouses, nutrients, lighting, and other new and innovative techniques to use in high tech gardening and horticulture. Since the articles are from the first five years of Growing EDGE magazine, each chapter is a comprehensive compendium of cutting edge horticulture without going over the edge! New and innovative seems to be the keyword here. The mainstream gardening magazines and books cover the tried and true techniques of gardening; The Best of Growing EDGE covers the new and innovative. The information can be used by both hobby home gardeners and large commercial growers. The techinques are the same, it is just the scale of the operation that is different. Gardening is possible year round with the information contained in this book

We just came back from NYC and went on one of the walking tours in this book--guided by the author Eric Wakin (Ethnic Eating Tour of Chinatown and Little Italy). Mr Wakin took us into Chinatown and discussed how the area is a living, breathing, working neighborhood, filled with shops, pushcarts, and restaurants that cater to the neighborhood's residents. We then walked into Little Italy and noticed how the neighborhoo is nothing but restaurants designed to attract tourists. Quite a contrast. Mr Wakin discussed how the neighborhoods have changed over the centuries as the older, more established immigrants move out and new immigrants (often of a different ethnic background) come in. The author was knowledgeable about his facts and history and the the different food tidbits were a real treat!

Whether you are a native New Yorker or a tourist visiting New York City for the first time, you need to pick up a copy of The Big Onion Guide To New York City.

Big Onion has established itself as the leading walking tour company in New York City for over 10 years. And for good reason. Their guides are American history graduate students who know and love the city.

Big Onion's first guide book is loaded with interesting facts and stories about the city's history. Their easy-to-follow self-guided tours will delight tourists exploring the city's streets and enlighten even native New Yorkers who think they know everything about their hometown.

I'm constantly using this book as a reference book to look up facts about New York history. In my opinion, two of the best tours are the Lower East Side, with its tales of immigrant life, and Central Park, which the book calls New York's "greatest public space." There is even a driving tour (which I haven't tried yet) for those who want to explore New York's "outer boroughs."

The book is concise, well-written and always informative. It's a must-have for anyone interested in New York City history.

I was tired and stressed, and I picked up this book. Within the first pages I was captured, taken away into an amusing and warm tale. Jackson and Hetty, all the characters are so real. The story is very much like a really good romantic movie. Loved it.

A BRIDE FOR JACKSON POWERS is the perfect antidote for winter blahs, especially after the recent snow and ice storms. It could have happened to anyone, but when it happens to the kind of people Browning is famous for creating, it's fun--pure, unadulterated fun!

Hurry and write another book Dixie, Spring hasn't sprung yet.

From a Tar Heel fan who would rather read than fly.

This book is layed out so very well, Robert Kittler takes a look at everyday happenings and turns them into some funny, very funny poems. These poems are great for kids there are so many educational and funny poems, poems that stick with kids. Being only 21 he can relate with younger kids, a great accomplishement for such a young kid, buy the book you wont be dissapointed. Logan

This book was well writen. The illistrations by the kids was a wonderful idea. overall this book is a great book for any age from children to adults. so if you cant sleep one night you might want to give these poems a try

This has been one of my two or three very favorite books since it came out. I read from it almost every day. I think that anyone interested in poetry or literature or just in the human spirit should have it by their sides. It is a wonderful selection, beautifully translated. It brings out the two things I like best about Celtic literature: the intense, immediate sensitivity to nature, and the extreme importance given to individual men and women (as opposed to the great big abstractions, symbols, word games, etc., in so much of literature). The Celts seem to have remembered, more often than most people, that individual human beings matter.

I've had this book for over ten years and find new things to appreciate that I'd skipped over in the past. I've used some of the shorter poems and englyn for caligraphy and needlework, and on my website. I also feel that to understand a people, it is necessary to read the literature, and this book offers a good selection.