Jonie B. Jones is one of the best books, You could read, because she shows lots of details, And shes really young, but shes really funny, Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake , For me it is one of my favorite books there are of the Jonie B. Jones books, She also says things like I did a huffy breath at that guy , But her books are the best. (...)

Jonie B. Jones is one of the best books, You could read, because she shows lots of details, And shes really young, but shes really funny, Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake , For me it is one of my favorite books there are of the Jonie B. Jones books, She also says things like I did a huffy breath at that guy , But her books are the best.

Junie B Jones is one of the books I have read, she so funny and she speaks her mind. and shes really young. this book is a very good book if you read this book you would know that its a good book.so read Junie B Jones. Jamie Smith,

Hi. This is a great book.It is about two kids and their parents just divorced. Their mom gets kidnapped so they live with their uncle in a trailor park. They meet a friend and try to find their mom. This is a very suspenseful book....

In this book, Rick, the main characters are an eleven year old boy and his younger brother Kenny who is seven. Teh boys'father is a truck driver who's load gets stolen one night. The mother asks the father if he had anything to do with it. The two dults get into a fight and the father leaves. The parents were not "divorced" the dad just left. Neighter parent filed for a divorce, and at the end the boy hopes that the father will come back home. The mother discovers much information about the case and is kidnapped so she will not tell. The kid-nappers try to capture her two sons so she will tell them what she knows. THe boys' friends, Connie and Julie, help them solve the mystery and escape from the kid-nappers. I am thirteen and I enjoyed this book thoroughly. It was very exciting and suspensful. I have read one other of Willo Davis Robert's books and found it equally exciting. She is a very creative writer and her books deserve 5 stars for mystery,adventure,and action in my opinion.

I read scared stiff when I was in the third grade in 1992, after my library teacher read it. It is such a good book that now in 1999, I remember the title after not reading it for seven years and I will be purchasing it for a much younger friend of mine. Even though it is at times unrealistic, it provokes the imagination of those who read it and imprints itself in a person's memory.

London for Dummies contains a wealth of information. Information that you need before you even leave home. Just the discussion on ATM cards vs traveler's checks is worth the price of the book.

I'm leaving for London in little less than a week and this book will be going with me along with my Eyewitness Travel Guide to London. Of all of the books I've purchased about London these seem to be the most knowledgeable and interesting. The nice thing about this dummies book is that it doesn't pander to you with corny jokes as many of the Dummies series do. Just good solid informaton. I recommend it.

We just returned from our first trip to the U.K. and this book was a lifesaver. I bought London for Dummies several months before we left along with several other more well known guides but I ended up using this guide more than all of the others put together. The advice on customs and the VAT saved me enough money to pay for the book several times over and made my trip back through U.S. customs a breeze.

The information in this book is very well organized and easy to follow. Special tips are found all through the book and get you ready for a few things you might not expect. I found that, mostly because of this book, I was able to travel around London as if I had been there many times.

If you are about to go to London for the first time don't go without this book. Nothing can ruin a trip like getting to a new city and feeling completely lost and alone. I never had that problem and I give a lot of credit to this book for that. Study it before you leave and be ready. It is an easy and fun read and once you get to London you will be glad you took the time to be ready.

In February I made my first trip to London. While I was with someone who had traveled before, it had been years between visits so this book was invaluable for both of us! The ratings for restaurants were right on! Information and ideas of places to visit were top notch (also provided times of operation, etc.) The information on how to get around, what you would need and all other information was perfect. When we needed a doctor, and our hotel was not able to help us, we referred to the guide in the book, found a wonderful service that provided a GREAT doctor who came to the hotel and took care of everything! This is a must have for any traveler. Make sure you make room to put it in your carry-on! The only complaint is the size. Not really compact enough, worth hauling around.

What an extremely well-written book. Ms. Park's expressions were captivating. My visualization of her descriptions were outstanding!

However... I was EXTREMELY troubled by the last, let's say, 25 pages... I watched as Emily suffered through one bad relationship after another, then she finally found "The One" and you hear nothing else about her... Fast Forward to 18 years later... What??

THEN... the end of the book had nothing to do at all about her struggle as a lesbian.. it became about her best friend. I don't get it...

Sorry, but I could only give this book a three.

This is the best description I've found of the realities of teen same-sex first love, and my recommendations don't come lightly (I've read 100+ books/year for the last 12 years). The story is complete with family overreaction, trying to "cure" oneself by sex with men, covering up by making fun of "dykes", psychiatric old-wives' tales re. lesbianism, wondering if one is gay/sick/queer, girlfriends' denials and homophobia, finally trying to "cure" oneself by sex with women, and all the rest of the tangled mess of finding and defining oneself according to one's understanding of society's rules.

In many ways, I could identify with the heroine. She writes and quotes poetry; to impress girls she "acts intense"; when she's in love with her best friend she feels "finger-tip alive".

Somewhere during the final chapter, I experienced something entirely new to me: sobbing over a book.

_A_Stone_Gone_Mad_ contains some remarkable, beautiful writing, and the infrequent love scenes are so true-to-life that you just might get all flushed...and wish that the love of your life would hurry home.

Well this has to be one of my favorite books ever. Some may say it was dissapointing at the end but I don't think those are the right words. Yes it would have been nice to know what became of Emily and her lover but the book did end nicely. Emily's best friend was an important part of the book and in my opinion the ending was appropriate.

This book was quite realistic compared to some books I've read about youth coming to terms with their homosexuality. It wasn't sugarcoated. Emily took a lot of heat for being a lesbian, and was very confused throughout the book. Her family did not accept her and every thing WASN'T okay. Emily went through A LOT. I shared her emotions while reading, Emily goes through so many ups & downs in this book and it all seems so real. I wish Emily was a real person so I could meet her.

The only thing that kinda threw me off was how fast the time set passed in this book. Years were skipped a lot & the second half of Emily's life seemed to speed right on by. But overall I have to give it the 5 stars it deserves.

I thought that Jasorassic Park was a great book and one of the better foxtrot collections. The whole fox family shows how they could make others in the family miserable.

Of course their's Quincy and Marcus, but Jason is probably the head of this collection. Well just look at the title.

Bill Amend does a very good job at this. I've got to say out of all the foxtrot collections I've read (that is all of them) this ranks in the top three (out of 12).

You won't be disappointed if you buy Welcome to Jasorassic Park.

This new Foxtrot collection is one of the funniest yet.
The Camp Bohrmore series is hilarious.
The whole Fox family is here, in this brand new book.
What happens when Jason and Marcus become the A-V boys for their class?
Or what happens when Roger floods the house?
Find out in this awesome Foxtrot collection.

This is the best FoxTrot book I've read yet! Thumbs up to Bill Amend for the best FoxTrot collection ever! I especially liked the Camp Bohrmore series, the Audio-Visual series, the Jasorassic Park series, and the Christmas series. My favorite pages in the book are pages 5, 28, 34, and 85. I give this book a five star rating for humor, wonderful comics, and the great tenth anniversary poster in the back!

Cracker Ingenuity provides an incredible escape from the Sex in the City everyday of $500 handbags and $12 cosmos. P.T. Elliott and E.M. Lowry remind us that we need not cry "super" every time our shower drains slowly, that in fact human ingenuity not only exists but would enrich our lives were we to exercise it instead of suppressing it in the money for labor market of the post-industrial city. As a return of the repressed, the authors demonstrate that there is something to be said for a house that rolls and for decorative lawn ornaments. Yes, in many places (like where I grew up) a person would be arrested for lawn ornaments, but that is exactly what the authors provide is a possible alternative everyday for the programmed life of pedicured French bulldogs and cars parked neatly in garages. P.T. Elliott follows up her 100 Proof with another humorous, enlightening winner.

Not only is this a delightful and informative read, but it is also beautifully designed. Trailer Park ingenuity is often merely dismissed or laughed off, but this charming book presents the reader with the wisdom and ideas that have been developed over the years by a very resourceful segment of our society. There is much to be learned from them!

This is the cooki-est and most hilarious book I have read in years. what an eye-opener and a great surprise on trailer trash culture. this book takes on a fantastic journey in a culture that most of us europeans know so little about or have so much disdain for.
Highly recommended.

The story begins at a bar in the town Kagda on the planet Naya. Yaeylie Frenna is the slave of Olney a veterinarian, assigned to the planet located on the frontier ruled by the Emirate. The Emirate had driven the Faraqui from this planet and its neighbors, including Traja some many years before. Now, the Faraqui appear ready to retake what was once theirs.

With the conflict between these two warring factions as the backdrop, Hand of Prophecy begins a tale of family conflict and a struggle for freedom of an enslaved Jatahn race of which Frenna is one. Once the favored slaves of the Faraqui, they are now indentured to the Emirate. Her chains are of biochemical construction. She has been infected by the Emirate with the virus, "a drug that create antibodies at an inhumanly rate," writes park.

Maybe.

Other reviewers have given the gist of the plot, but I don't agree with their ratings, that's why I review this book. LeGuin in Four Ways of Forgiveness has written better about slavery and how it destroys the owned and owners.

Octavia Butler in The Kindred writes better about the sexual relationship in slavery between owned and owner. In that book there are outsiders who make it easier for us to empathize.

Many of Samuel R. Delaney's books are about unequal sexual relationships. I prefer his too.

I liked Hallie in this book, but Frenna was too distant, too strange, ultimately an unsatisfying hero, for me. Troah was too too scary to also be sympathetic, as I think she was supposed to be, eventually.

In my opinion, it is worth reading, if you don't expect too much from it. And you've read the others first.

Severna Park is a beautiful writer. Sci Fi enthusiastics can read Hand of Prophecy as a rambunctious and fast-paced action tale, but I preferred to read it on the level I believe she meant it to be read - a social critique. She's a passionate and brilliant writer.

I've never written an Amazon review before, but I felt a real obligation to trash this book. It is riddled with bad grammar and syntax -- I mean several errors on every page. I don't have it in front of me and can't remember the names, but a typical case would be "Me and Grace had a fight," instead of "Grace and I had a fight." Since the book is narrated by the protagonist, these errors are not only in direct quotes but also in the main text.

In short, the book is written the way many kids talk. This is a perfectly legitimate technique for adult books, and can certainly add to the feeling of authenticity, although the hundreds of books I loved and devoured as a child did not suffer for being grammatically correct. But it is very confusing to a child who is trying to learn proper English in school, and it undermines the efforts of teachers. When children read such usage in a book, what are they supposed to think? What habbits will they learn? And how can a teacher correct the child's own usage when the child can point to a book and say "They do it like that here"?

I was dismayed to discover that this book is part of a series by a popular author, and I couldn't believe it when I saw that the publisher is Scholastic! Perhaps this means that an official decision has been made to abandon traditional rules of English usage in favor of those of the playground. But if so, I wasn't notified, and my career effectiveness would nosedive if I followed suit. So would most people's.

Barbara Park and Scholastic are doing a tremendous disservice to children by habituating them at an early age, in print, to usage that can only hurt them both in school and later in life. These books, and others like them, should be blacklisted by teachers, schools and liblaries. Censorship on the basis of content is a tricky subject, but bad grammar in children's books can only hurt their very vulnerable readers.

This is a great book to read with your favorite children. There are many lessons to be learned here about behavior, feelings, emotions, fears, and about getting what you ask for, but not REALLY wanting it. Discussing these stories with your children can help them understand how to cope with life's circumstances. We discuss Junie's poor grammar and the behavior of the children in the stories. It helps the children in our family better understand social skills and discipline. It also encourages them to share their experiences with their family members who may need to know about them. Adults in our family up to the age of 90 laugh at Junie's adventures and delight in the humorous twists to the stories. The children relate to Junie's problems and learn from her experiences.

Written from the very believable point of view of a precocious little girl, this story was at least as enjoyable a read for me as it was for my daughters! If you have a kid, know a kid, ever been a kid, or even ever SEEN a kid, check this (as well as the rest of the Junie B Jones series) out. She's the Eloise of the 21st century.

Susan-Lori Parks' Getting Mother's Body is an entertaining story of Billy Beede, a pregnant sixteen year old who is convinced that she must travel from Texas to Arizona and dig up her mother's grave to claim the jewels she is buried with. The only problem is, she has no money and no way of getting there. How she gets there, and the people she lies to, cheats on, and cons make up this uproarious read. Parks' novel is narrated by a number of characters, some central, some not and its just a fun, funny read. Parks is certainly creative and a skilled writer. Have fun with this one.

The plot of this book is without a doubt an engaging page-turner. The events unfold through the alternating voices of a variety of characters. And while this is not a terribly long book and there's a number of characters in on the action, Parks does a wonderful job of creating nuanced, very human characterizations. The misery and joy of being a minority living in small-town Texas in 1963 is beautifully captured with great humor and tenderness.

Detailing the adventures of Billy Beede and her non-traditional family on their quest from Texas to Arizona to get "treasure" buried with Billy's mother in order to fund an abortion for Billy's "bigged" belly (by a married, custom coffin maker), Suzan-Lori Parks' first novel is intelligent, well-written and enjoyable.

While the plot is darkly comic and compelling, the real pleasure of this book is the writing which is full of wonderfully emotional descriptions but is not overblown. Parks accurately depicts snapshots of scenes with visually stimulating language leaving you with images of doctor's office's floors or flour soiled dresses creating a book that plays like a film inside your head.

Parks' technique of showing a different character's point of view in each short chapter (twenty characters contribute their first person accounts along the journey) allows for a deep understanding of each player from Billy's one-legged Aunt to Billy's mother's lesbian-passing-as-a-man lover. Even Billy's dead mother, Willa Mae, speaks through her left-behind blues songs lyrics and a well-taught scam for making quick cash. Parks has fully developed these folks, right down to their Hurston-esque speech patterns, and her knack for snappy, flowing dialogue is wonderful.

Not as heavy as The Color Purple, but reminiscent of its style and character development, Getting Mother's Body may make itself a place alongside such important works of fiction for its literary beauty and originality.

This is the most comprehensive book on candida I have ever read. The index is thorough. There are phone numbers of doctors that are familiar with the syndrome listed by state. I am learning much more from this book than Dr. Crook's more popular book "The Yeast Connection". This book includes more info in one source than you will find anywhere on the internet, including the candida forum (raincity.com then under health professionals) I did not buy this book from Amazon. I bought it from the bookstore and paid $3.00 extra!!! This book is technical, but easy to understand.

I first read this book about 13 years ago, and I was much more impressed with this book than with the more popular "The Yeast Connection", which I already had. The questionnaire in "The Yeast Syndrome" is excellent, as is the diet. After completing the questionnaire, I knew I had a Candida problem, while the questionnaire in "The Yeast Connection" had led me to believe I most likely did not have Candida. My symptoms improved considerably within a few days of starting the diet. I also consulted a physician and confirmed my self-diagnosis after a couple of months of following the diet.

I wish there was a more recent edition of this book that does not suggest using nystatin (which I did not use myself), but it is still a book I highly recommend having on your bookshelf! I have not seen a better questionnaire, and the diet is an excellent place to start. You may find you can mix "Phases" of the diet, for example you might be able to add oatmeal or rice to the "Phase-1" diet, depending on your personal food tolerances. I would suggest consulting a physician who practices holistic medicine (and can test for food sensitivities), and picking up another book or two on Candida for additional information. Changing your diet is the most powerful tool you can use to eradicate Candida, and is essential. And when you fall off your good diet, this is a good book to go back to, to help get on a good diet again!

This book was wonderful! For someone who has suffered for so many years with severe health problems I found this book like a wonderful breath of fresh, sweet desert air! What a clear understandable book! I am in the pages, especially the chapter that speaks about mental health problems caused by Candida. The authors have done their homework. I espcially enjoyed the chapter about Clarissa Candida and what she does to Jane's body. Everybody should read this book, if they are having major health problems that do not seem to be getting better! The book is a bit jargony but I enjoyed it, it well worth the price!