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Middle to High Schoolers as well as adults will pick this book up out of curiosity and immediately become engrossed. The question and answer format encourages browsing, and the book includes lots of nice features such as an index, a section for related reading, a section of web addresses and mail addresses for space related organizations. Students will find useful report information presented here in a fun format. The book also includes a number of photographs and drawings relating to the questions it helps answer. Students will discover the many effects of living in space from one of the men who has spent the most time there!

Great book for a middle school or high school library. Answers lots of frequently-asked questions about astronaut's life in space.

For a primary grade child, being sent to camp is like being sent to Siberia. In this tongue-in-cheek story, the MOM gets sent to camp and the dad and the daughter stay home, then visit mid-week and then consider the remote possibility of the child perhaps, just maybe, maybe someday, going to camp. Very understated, about 2nd grade reading level, this may be helpful for a reluctant camper-to-be.

Children are naturally close to their parents, but there are children who will practically never budge from their homes. These are the youngsters who will need sleep-away camp the most when they are older, but are the most likely to resist. This is particularly the case if they are the only, older or oldest child in the family. Ms. Bunting has done a virtuoso job in this book of helping ease that transition by introducing the idea of sleep-away camp in a positive light for the 4-6 year old set.

"Mom waved a letter. 'I'm going to camp,' she said happily."

"'Only kids go to camp,' Lin said."

"This is a mother's camp, for mothers only."

"Loppy Lamb and I don't want to go to kid's camp."

Naturally, though, Lin wanted to help her mom get ready to go away. They went shopping, and Lin was surprised that you get to buy lots of great fun things for sleep-away camp.

Then, it was time for mom to go away on the camp bus. She asked dad and Lin to promise to visit her on Vistors Day. Lin and dad were looking forward to having fun together while mom was away.

Just before Visitors Day, they made fudge and cookies to take to mom. Lin didn't know that people got goodies on Visitors Day at camp.

They have a great reunion, and Lin gets to see what mom has been doing. She finds out that mom has been playing her new harmonica, paddling in canoe races, playing volleyball, having midnight treats, developing best friends, using passwords and secret codes with her cabin mates, riding horses, swimming, having campfire sessions, and making friendship bracelets. Lin thinks that sounds kind of neat.

When dad and Lin leave, Lin hears Loppy Lamb say something. She asks dad to be quiet so she can hear better.

"'Dad?' Lin said, 'Loppy Lamb wants to tell me something.'"

"Dad? Loppy says he might want to go to camp in two years when he's big."

"He's such a baby sometimes, I might have to go to camp with him."

"It's not that I want to go."

The illustrations done by Ms. Cocca-Leffler deserve praise. They use lots of bright pastel tones, done in strong water-based colors. The shadings and detail are marvelously subtle, and help create a relaxed mood so important to this story. You get a feeling much like in the Raggedy Ann and Andy books, except the palette is much more in earth tones and away from reds and whites.

The story deserves praise from several perspectives. First, it doesn't overtly "sell" camp. It just provides information about what a mom's experience is. Second, it never says that children should or should not go to sleep-away camp. Third, it paints the issue in the future since Lin (and your child) are too young to go to sleep-away camp now. Fourth, no one ever asks Lin if she wants to go. She simply expresses her opinion voluntarily in the end. Fifth, the book also helps your child realize that she or he can take a favorite friend along (whether a stuffed toy or a human friend). Sixth, the story also gives your child a way to talk about the subject, by suggesting that the issue can be discussed in terms of what Loppy Lamb wants. That can take some of the anxiety out of the issue.

Beyond buying and reading this book, there are other things you can do that help. You can arrange to go see siblings, cousins or neighbor children at their camps on visiting day if you know that the child is having a great time. You can also go to a family camp where there will be children the same age as your child, and activities for the children. A short day camp experience in your own town is a good transition. I also suggest encouraging your child to invite friends for overnights. I know they are hard on your sleep, but they encourage the kind of socialization that is helpful for sleep-away camp and later on for college and independent living.

Many of my friends still have their children living at home (at well past 30), often with their own children, and sometimes with spouses. These children never made it to sleep-away camp. Unless you want to live in an extended household for the rest of your life (and more power to you if you do), this book can help create the subtle encouragement to try sleep-away camp that is beneficial for slowly untying the emotional umbilical cord.

Leave home behind to add to your adventures, but keep your sense of home-based confidence when you do!

Let's Go Ghana is written by a Ghanian now living in Washington, D.C. As such, it is a good purveyor of Ghanian social customs and history for people from the west. This would be especially helpful to those trying to set up business relationships with and within Ghana. An interesting ancillary read for the tourist.

Kwasi Bosompem's "Let's Go Ghana" is an invaluable resource for the tourist or businessperson seeking historical and practical information about Ghana, or for the reader interested in heightening his/her cultural awareness. Within only ninety-six pages, Mr. Bosompem has gathered vital data and important historical/cultural information about Ghana that would otherwise be difficult or time-consuming to locate. Further, he has presented it in an interesting and eminently readable format. Written by a Ghanaian who has resided and been educated both in Africa and the United States, "Let's Go Ghana" is senstively written and is a unique resource. A must-read for anyone interested Ghana!

a very exciting book of adventure for children. you{ll love it

A very exciting adventure book, you will love the five club going down a secret way and discovering a secret place.

The teens profiled in this books are effective living advertisements for the 'unschooling' lifestyle. I was impressed with the book, which I read after "The Teenage Liberation handbook."

This book is about the daily lives of 11 teenagers who are currently unschooled. Some had attended public or private schools in the past and some have been life long unschoolers.

I found it facinating to read about what teenagers are capable of when they are not stuck in a typical school setting. It reinforced my decision to not send my own children to school.

Going to the source means primary research, and primary research includes telephone and in-person interviewing, direct observation and the use of public records and source documents.

Author Risa Sacks has found 12 researchers to explain the process, and thanks to Risa's own interviewing skills, the reader has almost 400 pages of examples, case studies, strategies, and stories. Readers will have the opportunity to learn from journalists, reporters, writers, private investigators, educators, an independent research company, a large reserach firm, a competitive intelligence specialist, and a librarian at a large corporation. Each interview ends with a list of Super Searcher Tips, and the appendix includes helpful references to websites, databases, books and articles.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in developing or improving interviewing and research skills.

by Crystal Sharp, Owner/Director, InformAction, CD Sharp Information Systems, Ltd. Canada.

This is a wonderful book -- a fascinating and entertaining look at primary research through the experience, stories and advice of twelve practioners. While most of us think of primary research as being the domain of private detectives and investigative journalists, current circumstances make it possible and often necessary, for any researcher to seek out or to verify information through consulting primary sources. Skillful use of the Internet can access a goldmine of competitive intelligence information; proper investigative techniques can lead to information not available in the best indexed databases; and knowledge of what information is collected, stored and available publicly is an asset when tracking elusive data. Most of this is learned only through experience - by doing and trying different methods. The value in this book comes from the experience shared by researchers, journalists, telephone researchers, and private investigators presented in a very readable way. The advice is practical and some of the stories are hilarious!

The book itself serves as an excellent example of the use of primary research. Risa Sacks has skillfully conducted and presented the interviews which touched on the following themes: the difficulties of engaging in primary research, the use of the internet for primary research, techniques for approaching people, interviewing techniques, methods for locating documents, legal issues and use of the phone in primary research.

This is a very useful book - I highly recommend it.

When Elizabeth and Jessica attend a summer college program Elizabeth(YES ELIZABETH!)falls for a college student.Hes much too old for her..as in he is college age and she is only 12!So she pretends that she and Jess have a big sister and then she dresses as that sister and hangs around the college boy.Oh,how we cringe as Elizabeth stumbles around in too-big highhheels and huge hats!

This book had me glued to my seat. I can't stop turning the pages. It's so cool and interesting, especially when Jessica's roommate disappears! I recommend this book to anyone who loves Sweet Valley Twins. Way to go, Francine Pascal!

Actually, Rutter's "new image for pastoral ministry" seems a very old understanding, but one that our busy-ness prefers to forget. Rutter writes about a ministry rooted in contemplative prayer. It is a strangely modern and ancient practice, one that does not fit our planning calendars. Yet contemporary writers such as Henri Nouwen speak of being judged not by our activities, but by our prayers. Ancient pastors, sometimes known as shepherds, sometimes known for caring for souls, spent hours each day and perhaps whole days each week in prayer. Surely those prayers included thanksgiving and petititon and intercession, but those prayers must also have included contemplation--sitting in silence and listening for God.

As a pastor, I feel the pressure to perform, to be everywhere and do more than seems possible. I do this in a way that exhausts me. I know that I can spend some time daily in the prayer that Rutter describes. I know that when I practice this contemplative prayer, my ministry feels more real. But the temptations to not pray in such a way are many. And most of those temptations are in my calendar!

Read this book and then be gentle with yourself.

This is a fascinating book for pastors who often get caught up in the business and busy-ness of church-institutional needs. Rutter makes the case that pastors should heed their initial call to love God and to grow toward God. He writes of an attentiveness to God, which may not be possible in the distractedness of contemporary culture--even in the church.

Read the book. Argue with the author, but take seriously his personal story as a pastor.

This book is excellent for children as it provides information on the genetics of red hair in layman's terms and the author works to boost his fellow redheads' self-esteem.

But other than the legend of Prince Idon (from whom all redheads allegedly originate), I found nothing in this text that I did not already know. It was simply a rehashing of the trials and tribulations that all redheads face, whether it be teasing, sunburns, or the challenge of coordinating make-up and clothing to our hair color.

The information contained in this book and a whole lot more can be found in "The Redhead Encyclopedia" by Stephen Douglas, The Redhead Book" by Al Sacharov, and/or "The Redhead's Handbook" by Pat Doran, Kevin Osborn, Susan Osborn, and Marian Mundy. However, I believe all three of these are out-of-print so this may be the only book readily available for the redhead enthusiast.

At last! A cool book about redheads that is hip and fun to read. Besides detailing where redheads came from and the science of red hair, "The Redhead Handbook" had all sorts of interesting tidbits that I cant wait to pull out to impress my redheaded friends.

I am biased, of course, since I am a proud redhead myself. I've passed it along to my family members and they are equally impressed (despite half being dreaded blonds).

it looks like a good book and i think it will help little kids to go to bed.