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Starting with Alice 22 reviews
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Aladdin, 2004
funny!!!
For me, this was definitly the best book i have read in the alice series so far! VERY and i mean VERY few books make me laugh out loud, but this one did--on nearly every page! i engulfed this wonderful tale of an 8-year old girl and her adventures through the move from chicago to takoma park, Maryland, and how she has to start 3rd grade at a brand new school. i read this in one day! i would sit ...
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No Small Thing15 reviews
Natale Ghent
Candlewick, 2005
No Small Thing- A MUST READ
I absolutly love this book. It is a MUST read! If you want to find out more about this book take a look at the other reviews on this page.
I LOVED IT!!!!! I LOVED IT!!!!! I LOVED IT!!!!!
from a fellow horses lover
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Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia33 reviews
Robert Klose
University Press of Mississippi, 1999
Klose has the gift for writing and living
I received this book with low expectations considering previous tactical books I had read on the subject. It stopped me in my tracks. I was so impressed by Robert's literary style and story-telling ability. He allows us to go through the entire process and share very personal emotions --discovering with him important lessons for anyone involved in international adoption. The frustrations and ...
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Adopting On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adoption for Single Parents15 reviews
Lee Varon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
Priceless
This book has been absolutely priceless in my journey toward adoption. The exercises are beneficial and the information is straightforward and unbiased. Best of all, it's written by someone who, like me, is single and career-oriented but made it work. This has not only helped me, but I shared it with my family and it helped them to understand just what I'm going through.
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Of Time and Memory: A Mother's Story17 reviews
Don J. Snyder
Knopf, 1999
The way writing should be taught
To me, this was a masterpiece--something I didn't expect. I had read his previous book "The Cliff Walk" and found out later that he was doing a reading that summer of "Of Time and Memory" at a local bookstore. At that reading, I told him that The Cliff Walk was incredibly written and that I'd recommendeded it to many people. He then told me that that book was 'practice' for this book, the book ...
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Things Unspoken32 reviews
Anitra Sheen
Chronicle Books, 2001
An excellent read
I hope Anitra Sheen will write a sequel to this moving book. This is one of the best books I have ever read.
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Alice in Between18 reviews
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Demco Media, 1996
Great
Like all my life i have been seaching for a certain series of books about a girl and real life. When i found the alice books my search was done i love the alice books they are books i can read time and time agin.I just wanted you to know how much I LOVE THE ALICE BOOK SERIES
Love always
*~*Shawna clark*~*
p.s. me and my friends ...
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The Rich Part of Life: A Novel32 reviews
Jim Kokoris
St. Martin's Press, 2001
A great catch
Kokoris does something unusual with this book: he captures the core of people that you probably know (at a minimum, their personalities will be familiar), and shows them in a sweet, compelling story. The boy's-eye view works to a T. The Dad is a delightful introvert, neither simple nor heroic . . . . the result is a novel that will win you over.
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Alice in April21 reviews
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Demco Media, 1995
Funny and real
About to turn 13, Alice McKinley is preoccupied with her aunt's statement about needing to be the "Woman of the House" for her widowed father and older brother Lester. Her best efforts, however, usually turn to disaster...
To make matters worse, the seventh-grade boys are naming the girls after various states...depending on the size of their chests! Alice lives in terror, uncertain which would ...
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The Lottie Project20 reviews
Jacqueline Wilson
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1999
A Wonderful Favorite!
This is definitely one of my favorite books. I guess sixth graders will enjoy it most, but parents will also enjoy it too. Jacqueline Wilson really knows how to get into the world of 11-year-olds. Charlie Enright has a lot of problems at school. Her new teacher is strict and mean. She assigns the sixth-graders a Victorian project right at the beginning of the year. Also, she makes Charlie sit ...
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Black Book 210 reviews
HarperCollins e-books, 2001
The Best Teen Book
This is by far the best book that i have read in a long time. It contains all the aspects of the life of a teenager. It is about a Junior/Senior named Jonah and its about how he goes about his everyday life and how different people influence him. He makes a lot of new friends like Posie and Sophie, and many others. The author uses great imagry to describe the characters and it almost feels like u ...
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The Perfect Man13 reviews
Jenny Markas
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2005
The Perfect Movie Novelization!
I own this movie novel, the movie, and the soundtrack and I love them all. The movie is heartwarming and the movie novelization captures its beauty and wit and puts it all into one story. The Perfect Man is a wonderful Hilary Duff movie and will leave you disgusted or happy (depends on whether or not you like the movie). This movie novelization has every part of the movie in its pages, and has ...
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My Cup Runneth Over : Setting Goals For Single Parents and Working Couples13 reviews
Daryl D. Green
Performance Management & Logistics Associates, 1998
This book was wonderful!
I've read Darryl's book twice and refer to it often. The entire goalsetting approach is particularly useful. The book is very well-written, quite easy to follow, and applicable to most any person. It is truly a gift from above.
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Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems11 reviews
Julie Williams
HarperTempest, 2004
Unforgettable
My daughter and I each have a copy of this book and had the same experience reading it: we couldn't put it down. My daughter said that she carried such an ache around in her heart for this young girl. She said she felt as if she truly knew her and loved her. This is a powerful story told in the spare, searing language of penetrating poetry. As a teacher, I have been pondering ways I might ...
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Megan's Island12 reviews
Willo Davis Roberts
Demco Media, 1990
A Very Good Book
This is a very interesting book. It is about a girl named Megan, her mom, and her brother sandy. One night out of the blue Megan's mom packs them up and heads hundreds of miles away to their grandfather's cottage. Megan and Sandy stay with their grandpa for several weeks and they meet this boy named Ben. Then their past starts to unravel. They find out that their other grandfather has hired a ...
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Thou Shalt Not Whine: The Eleventh Commandment: What We Whine About, Why We Do It and How to Stop14 reviews
Beaufort Books, 2008
A humorous look at whining and how to stop it in its tracks...
If you're a parent with kids who know at least two words, you hate whining. It was absolutely amazing how the kids could push all my buttons with that simple act. But now, it seems like nearly all of society has picked up on whining as being the preferred form of communication these days. January Jones takes a humorous look at this phenomenon in her book Thou Shalt Not Whine: The Eleventh ...
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Black Book 412 reviews
HarperCollins e-books, 2002
Fourth and Last Book in The Black Book Series
For some reason, I always have a knack for buying books out of order, like I did with this one. But when I found "Faster, Faster, Faster" the other day in a used bookstore, I had to buy it, remembering it was one of the titles Amazon.com had recommended to me. (Amazon.com rarely lets me down.) Now, after just finishing this book, I'll certainly be looking for the other three. Anyway, Volume IV ...
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Letters from Rapunzel9 reviews
Sara Lewis Holmes
HarperCollins, 2007
A First-Time Novelist Makes her Mark . . .
This is Sara Lewis Holmes' debut novel, winner of the first annual Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest. An epistolary novel (that quickly becomes tantamount to reading a young girl's diary), it centers around twelve-year-old Cadence who calls herself Rapunzel. Cadence is extremely close to her father, a poet, who is suddenly hospital-bound with clinical depression. Soon after his hospitalization, ...
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Letters in the Attic12 reviews
Bonnie Shimko
Academy Chicago Publishers, 2002
Great coming of age story!
This was a lovely coming of age story! Great fun and quirky characters and a warm tale about family, secrets and love.
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The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom14 reviews
Katherine Arnoldi
Hyperion, 1998
Life is hard, but you can somebody if you don't give up.
This is the true poignant story of a young woman and her struggles to make dreams come true. Katherine Arnoldi, raped and left with a baby at 17, was forced, out of necessity, to take a dead-end, hazardous factory job. Her dysfunctional family tried to crush her and her dreams; her boyfriend turns on her and beats her. Yet through all of her pain and despair she does not give up. Arnoldi ...
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