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24 reviews
Cynthia Rylant

Voyager Books, 2000

Richie's Picks: THE OLD WOMAN WHO NAMED THINGS
Ten years after first reading this aloud at circle time, Rylant's lovely story of the old woman who has to decide to, once more, take a chance on love and loss, has become a beloved old friend to me. Brown's quirky illustrations are quite memorable--especially the joyous spread near the end of the story in which the dog, with his tongue hanging out, happily sticks his head out the window of the ...

Our Tree Named Steve

12 reviews
Alan Zweibel

Puffin, 2007

A Must-Have for Every Family's Library
In a perfect world children would never have to experience the pain of loss. But, of course, this is not a perfect world, and just like their adult counterparts, youngsters need help coping when they lose someone they love. Be it that pet hamster who meets with an untimely (and usually slightly suspicious) end, a beloved grandparent who passes away, or the giant tree in the family's backyard that ...

A Streetcar Named Desire.

106 reviews
Tennessee Williams

Dramatists Play Service, 1998

Squalor, Poetry, and Remarkable Insight: An American Classic
Born in Columbus, Mississippi, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) endured a difficult childhood and adolescence before suddenly exploding to national and then international fame with the 1944 play THE GLASS MENAGERIE. He would go on to create a dozen or so more that were equally famous--but he is perhaps best recalled for the 1947 drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, which he drew from a number of ...

A Man Named Dave

216 reviews
Dave Pelzer

Plume, 2000

Amazing
I have read the trilogy of this book and believe it to be uplifting and just truly amazing. It makes you strive to be all you can be and to treat others in the way you want to be treated. He is a true inspiration to anyone.

A Streetcar Named Desire

1 review
Tennessee Williams

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004

STEELLLLLAAAAA!
I've just finished reading this book, and have decided it is the best book I've ever read. Tennessee Williams brings together Stella, Stanley - her brutish husband- and Blanche Dubois, Stella's sister. Blanche comes to live with Stella and Stanley after she is kicked out of a different town for being a flirt. Stella who is in denial about this tries her best to be a good host and comfort Blanche. ...

A Bear Named Trouble

2 reviews
Marion Dane Bauer

Yearling, 2006

Excellent!
A Bear Named Trouble is a book that even I couldn't put down! My daughter and I started reading it at night before bed and while we normally read one chapter a night, it didn't happen with this book. Two or three chapters later, I'd finally say it was time for lights out. The storyline is fabulous and since Trouble is a real bear at the Lake Superior Zoo, it gives it a whole new meaning for ...

A Girl Named Disaster

92 reviews
Nancy Farmer

Orchard, 1996

A Girl Named Disaster
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer, Puffin Publishing co. "The journey will be the hardest thing you'll ever do, but it will be worth it", her grandmother said. When a Shona girl named Nhamo is forced into an arranged marriage to save her village in Southern Africa, her grandmother thinks the opposite. Grandmother tells her to runaway from Mozambique to Zimbabwe, to find her father and ...

A Porcupine Named Fluffy

19 reviews
Helen Lester

Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1989

Very fun to read
I bought this for my three year old daughter...again based on reviews on amazon. Other reviewers were right: this book is a hoot. Everytime we get to: "H...H...H...H...H...Hippo" my daughter bursts out laughing. Highly recommended. Great illustrations set off the writing.

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)

194 reviews
Haven Kimmel

Broadway, 2002

Sweet, thoughtful memoir
This is the story of Zippy, an imaginative, precocious girl who grew up in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana during the 1960's and 1970's. She tells stories about her family members, childhood friends, eccentric neighbors, and various pets. Through it all, Zippy has a resilience of spirit and a positive attitude that shine through, even in situations that otherwise may not be ideal. ...

Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley

60 reviews
Jerry Schilling, Chuck Crisafulli

Gotham, 2006

Highly recommend this book to any Elvis fan!
I recently became an Elvis fan and wanted to know more about the personal side of Elvis. If that is what you are looking for, then I highly, highly recommend this book. Jerry Schilling does a wonderful job of telling about the personal friendship and working relationship he had with 'The King'. I loved reading this book and came away from it an even bigger Elvis fan than before. Schilling ...

Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis

14 reviews
Laszlo Kurti, Barbara Czako

Academic Press, 2005

Just Buy It.
To put it shortly, if you're an organic chemistry graduate student the just go ahead and buy this book. It will be the most used book in your personal library. Also, if you are an undergraduate working in a research lab buy it as well. You'll have a huge jump on the other graduate students when you go to grad school having been familiar with this book.

Someone Named Eva

9 reviews
Joan M. Wolf

Clarion Books, 2007

*We're not talking "enjoyable" here - because humans seem incapable of learning from History*
A child in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Milada received a prized telescope for her eleventh birthday although no gift was expected. Her father instructed his daughter to always look for the North Star to find her way. It was a time of shortages & ration cards and being fearfully hemmed in by soldiers who demanded Nazi salutes, and yanked families apart in the night. Milada was not a Jew but ...

Girl Named Helen Keller, A (level 3) (Hello Reader)

4 reviews
Margo Lundell

Cartwheel, 1995

Sad but good (from an 8-year-old)
I like this book because it's a true story that happened 100 years ago. It's a sad story because Helen Keller was blind and deaf. It's a good story because after a while she understood what she was doing and she learned how to write on a typewriter.

A Horse Named Dragon (Boxcar Children Mysteries, #114)
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Albert Whitman & Company, 2008

The Aldens are spending a week at the Dare to Dream Ranch, a rescue ranch that takes in horses whose owners can no longer care for them. The children help with chores, and Jessie is thrilled to be looking after a beautiful horse named Dragon. But when two of the oldest horses are missing from the pasture, a mystery begins to unfold-why would someone want to steal two old, sick horses? Then Dragon disappears, too, and the children discover that ...

A Horse Named Seabiscuit (All Aboard Reading)

2 reviews

Grosset & Dunlap, 2003

A Horse Named Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit is a story about a sick a horse that is misunderstood. Tom smith who works for a racehorse owner convinces his boss to buy him. After tom does what he can do to help seabiscuit get better. A miracle happens,................... read the book to find out what happens!

The Named (Guardians of Time Trilogy)

49 reviews
Marianne Curley

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005

What a breath of fresh air!
Marianne Curleys trilogy is a wonderful breath of fresh air in an over-crowded science fiction and fantasy world of Tolkien copycats and Harry Potter wannabees. Her books are completely original and innovative, all told through a real time first person narrative. I highly reccomend these books.

Williams' Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire (Cliffs Notes

2 reviews
James L. Roberts

Cliffs Notes, 1965

The Glass Menagerie was a well written play.
Some people did not think much of the play, but I thought it was an excellent play. The charecter laura in the play is a crippled girl who feels that she is unable to do anything because she is crippled. Laura keeps a glass menagerie and is very attached to it because she feels they are like her, fragile and transparent. One of the glass charecters resembles her because it is different from ...

A Man Named Dave

1 review
Dave Pelzer

Orion mass market paperback, 2002

A Woman Named Debbie - Please start with 'A Child called IT'.
I am 54 years old and until I read the last of this book in Mr. Pelzer's trilogy; I could not forgive my father. My mother I was able to forgive a very long time ago but I just could not forgive him. The books were hard for me to read but I stuck with them and I am so glad I did. As God commands us to forgive, I never really understood why, I was able to forgive my father and it was amazing the ...

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

1 review
Haven Kimmel

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2001

unbelievable price
The book was in perfect condition (said only "good" but looked like it had never been touched) and came at a price so low I was afraid it was too good to be true. Thanks!

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