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Knight's Castle 18 reviews
Edward Eager
Odyssey Classics, 1999
Attention history and fantasy lovers!
Four children and a magical toy castle, what could happen? Everything! When Ann and Roger visit their cousins in Baltimore, Roger is given a toy castle, with toy figures from Ivanhoe and other legends. But the tables turn when they find they can become part of the world that Robin Hood, Rebecca, and Maurice De Bracey inhabited. Can the children solve the problems that they cause as they change ...
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Hooray for Fish!21 reviews
Lucy Cousins
Walker Books Ltd., 2006
This book is wonderful
Like another reviewer said, it's a shame it doesn't come in a board book version. My 2 year old daughter adores this book and carries it around with her everywhere. Our copy is dog-eared and taped to death, but she still loves it! Still, a smaller, sturdier version would be very welcome.
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Where Is Maisy? (Maisy)21 reviews
Walker Books Ltd, 1999
Where is Maisy?
ISBN 0763607525 - Lift the flap books, in general, suffer from one flaw - the flaps themselves. If you decide to buy a used copy, it's a good idea to make sure that all the flaps are intact, since they tear off fairly easily. That aside, this book is a great one for little budding readers.
The reader is told that Maisy is going to hide (it shows her picture, so you can identify her, in case ...
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Maisy's Pop-up Playhouse (Maisy)21 reviews
Candlewick, 1995
Maisy's Big Flap Book
All the children I work with love this book(pre-school age). They are engaged for extended periods of time in pretend play. Also a wonderful educational tool in which to elicit important vocabulary.
A key book(toy) to that should be in every a child's home.
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Broken Paradise: A Novel20 reviews
Cecilia Samartin
Atria, 2007
Excellent Read
The book is captivating from beginning to end. I have also finished the author's second novel, Tarnished Beauty, and am now officially a fan of the author. This is a must read!
Crys McKinley, Real Ladies Read Book club
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The Good Master23 reviews
Kate Seredy
Scholastic Trade, 1991
A timeless classic
My sixth grade teacher read it to me in 1961. I became a teacher and have read it to hundreds of students as well as my own two children. It should be on a required reading list. It is a simple but delightful tale that centers on family, love and hard work.
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Over the Wall20 reviews
John H. Ritter
Philomel, 2000
GOOD BOOK
Hi, my name is A.C. Murphy and I thought that "Over The Wall" by John H. Ritter was a good book. My Favorite character would have to be Tyler's cousin Louis. Louis is my favorite character beacuse he plays 2nd base just like I do. In the beginning of the book, Tyler comes from San Diego and goes all the way to New York City. While Tyler is in New York City, his cousin asks him if he wants to play ...
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The Girl Death Left Behind74 reviews
Lurlene McDaniel
Perfection Learning Prebound, 1999
Best book I ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book is about a girl named Beth and her parents Paul and Carol and her brother Doug and sister Allison get into a car accident on their way to an annual picnic down by the lake. When some of the people notice that they are late they go down they go and try to see were they are and about 5 miles down the road they see there van in the road and they called the ambulance but when thy arrived ...
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Rimwalkers18 reviews
Vicki Grove
Tandem Library, 1999
Wow!
Torie and her sis, Sara have to go visit their grandparents for the whole summer. Niether of them are jumpping for joy. They go and meet two cosins. One whom they haven't seen for five years. Elija is tall, quiet, and shy. They meet Reenie for the first time. He is a highschool drop-out, mean, and a JD (Juvinile Deliquent) Torie befriends these two boys, yet they shut Sara out because she ...
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Miss Happiness and Miss Flower17 reviews
Rumer Godden
HarperTrophy, 2002
A perfect book for can-do kind of little lonely girls
As "Harry Potter" calls out to today's young bright outsiders looking for somewhere to truly belong, this book spoke to me. It mesmerised me as a little girl. As an USAF "brat" I very much understand Nona's ache and anger as the "weird" outsider. I fell in love with the dolls as well. Their "voices" sounded like two little doting "aunties" as they subtly manipulated Nona and Belinda into ...
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Landscape10 reviews
Donna Cousins
iUniverse, Inc., 2005
Riveting
LANDSCAPE readers will find the novel rooted in Los Angeles scenes and lifestyle, telling of a corporate executive who enjoys a perfect world - until it's shaken by losing his job. His new self-employment seems to work until he discovers a secret about the landscape business which will wreck his life - and discovers the evidence he's collecting about the illegal bio-waste could threaten his ...
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Distant Cousin: a novel10 reviews
Al Past
iUniverse, Inc., 2005
Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind
Is it really? The Fifth Kind is supposed to denote communication with an alien. The Barbie doll who plays the lead in this screenplay waiting to happen is not actually an alien being. She is a human from another planet, and she does one helluva job at communicating! Remember the wonderful magic you felt the first time you saw Spielberg's Close Encounters? Literary author Al Past makes us feel ...
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The Various16 reviews
Steve Augarde
David Fickling Books, 2004
Cornwall, NY Sixth Grader
I am a sixth grader. The book is about a girl of age twelve named Midge. Midge is not too happy with her mom. She has to go live with her uncle while her mom goes to a concert. When Midge arrives she decides she likes the place, it feels like home. She also has a strange feeling, like she has been there before. Not long after she arrives she discovers a tiny, wounded, winged horse trapped under a ...
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Cousins12 reviews
Marrissa R Dick
AuthorHouse, 2000
Down Home Flava
Cousins has a down home, hot and spicy, misty rain, warm slow dripping home made molasses, dip me in it with a fresh hand made buttermilk biscuit kind of flava. All I can say is that I want to live in Sweet Water, North Carolina. If this place is not real, it should be. If the characters aren't real, they need to be. Every page is gripping! Every love scene is inviting! Every plate of food is ...
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Boy In The Alamo11 reviews
Margaret Cousins
Topeka Bindery, 1983
Mother and son review
My 4th grade son and I loved this book! It's a great read with lots of excitement and emotion. My son read it first and loved it so much I decided I wanted to read it. I had trouble putting it down. It's an absolute must for kids and adults.
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MemoraBEALEia: A Private Scrapbook About Edie Beale of Grey Gardens First Cousin To First Lady Jacqueline ...10 reviews
Walter Newkirk
AuthorHouse, 2008
WONDERFUL!
WORTH WAITING FOR. CHUCKED FULL OF NEW PICTURES AND TIDBITS THAT WE NEVER READ BEFORE. THE PICTURES OF THE ACTUALL LETTERS HAND WRITTEN BY LITTLE EDIE WERE JUST A WONDERFUL SURPRISE AND DELIGHT. IF YOU ARE A GREY GARDENS FAN, OR FANATIC LIKE ME YOU MUST OWN THIS WONDERFUL TREASURE. SCRAPBOOK IS THE PERFECT WORD. THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT SO UNIQUE AND INTERESTING.
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Return to Gone-Away12 reviews
Elizabeth Enright
Odyssey Classics, 2000
One of my favorites from childhood
I loved this as a child and my son loves it just as much now that I have introduced it to him. A true classic for kids.
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Blood Is Thicker15 reviews
Paul Langan
Topeka Bindery, 2004
Blood Is Thicker
"That's it Savon barked, charging Hakeem like an enraged lion." This book is called Blood is Thicker by Paul Langan and D.M Blackwell.
This book takes place in a low class suburb in Detroit Michigan. It is about a boy named Hakeem who moves from California to Detroit because, his father is very sick and they cannot afford there house so, they come live with their uncle. Savon is Hakeems ...
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Straight Up16 reviews
Lisa Samson
WaterBrook Press, 2006
RAW TRUTH AND BEAUTY, WITH A JAGGED EDGE
Although I'd experienced Samson's prose years ago with The Living End, I was totally unprepared for the ride she took me on in this book.
Her lyrical phrases are a joy to read: "Artists flowed through that place in a steady stream like warm butterscotch over ice cream." Another: "Robert Darling lived alone ... except for twenty-two tropical fish that tinseled up the tank, their colors ...
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Cousins of Color15 reviews
William Schroder
Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd, 2004
Engrossing history and character study
"Cousins of Color" is a fascinating and enlightening view of America's involvement in the Philippines at the turn of the century. President McKinley has sent US military forces to Manila for 'humanitarian' purposes. This is not a book about the men who make important decisions but about the trickle down effect those decisions have on other men. Schroder's story allows the reader to see what doors ...
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