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At his best, Mr. DeJong writes books for children that are read and enjoyed by children, but can also sing to adults. In this book, young Siebren's world is small and lonely. He lives in a tiny seacoast village with his parents and younger brother. Then he goes with his grandfather to visit his old great-aunt. He finds a stray dog to care for, meets an aunt and uncle he never heard of before, and slowly his world becomes a little wider. What's remarkable is the way Mr. DeJong uses simple incidents to illustrate the fearfully powerful emotions of children as they try to make sense of the adult world they glimpse. His grandfather is gruff and no nonsense; his aunt loving and warm; and his uncle, a deaf-mute, a little frightening at first. Siebren begins to understand that adults aren't perfect, but can be surprisingly comforting and companionable when he opens up to admit some of his deepest fears. This book, along with many others by Mr. DeJong, is a more than adequate tonic for anyone feeling a little too sadly cynical and jaded.

Well, while it may be a little pricy, this is the best Klezmer book on the market! I have personally seen the Maxwell St Klezmer Archives, and these are the same charts they are using, just cleaned up (let me tell you--the charts are a mess!). From the traditional (i.e. Lebedikh un Freilach) to the arranged (i.e. Russian Sher) to the solo (i.e. Zol Zayn Gelept) to the zany (i.e. the MATZOrena) This book has it all! As an aspiring klezmer band leader, I know that I would be no where without this book. However, Amazon seems to have it out of stock (more evidence of its greatness!). You can purchase these from Maxwell St's website: Klezmerband.com!

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This book is really good, I read the out of date version, cause thats all we basically have at our lousy school library. Anyway, this book portrays of a teenage girl who doesnt tell the truth of her life to a poor boy she falls in love with in Central Park while singing for the tourists to make money. I read this book in 2 days, and when I returned it the librarian said "was this a good book?" and i said it waz excelent and she said "well ok, i guess ill read it now too!". Ever since i returned it, i keep thinking bout it! I wish there was a sequel!!

The Kids' Book about Death and Dying covers a wide range of subtopics including: learning to talk about death, death of a pet, death of children, and "is there life after death?" (This last question is dicussed in an open-minded manner, describing many different beliefs.) Even tough subjects like euthanasia are defined and discussed, with a look at differing opinions on the issue. Due to the conversational style of the book, filled with words and opinions of other children, kids who read this book will feel less alone.

Jagna Sharff is an anthropologist who spent several years in the early 70s living in a poor Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Lower East Side before arson and gentrification forced the poor out. In vivid, cinematic style, Sharff analyzes the different forces at work in the decline of the families in the neighborhood: the loss of manufacturing in the region throws men out of work; rules governing payments in Aid to Dependent Families break up marriages; cheap drugs flood the streets, providing a source of employment for young men as well as violence and drug addiction. Sharff gives detailed and touching portraits of family and neighborhood intereconnectedness and survival skills, while at the same time describing the part maternal dependence on drug money to survive plays in their sons' need to work on the street. Sharff has a gift for describing the joys as well as the constant anxiety about hunger or illness these families face: finally a father finds work in a dry cleaning store; soon after, his son falls several stories in an elevator shaft in their public housing unit, leaving the family (now off Medicaid) with a $10,000 medical debt that will crush the family's meager income for decades to come. Sharff ends the book with two intimate portraits of a brother and sister: the first, who witnessed a murder at the age of 11, spends years in solitary confinement in state prison "for his own protection" from other inmates; the second becomes a police officer in a neighborhood much like the one in which she grew up. Sharff is not dispassionate: a childhood survivor of war-time Poland who at 8 watched bombs dropping on the labor camp in which she and her 5-year-old brother were interred, she sees the children of this neighborhood as suffering from the traumatic stress of those who live in wartime: instead of bombs comes the smell of gasoline and the arsonist's torch, the whine of bullets between dealers, the sight of a bloody rug in which higher level dealers have rolled up the corpse of a young dealer they have murdered, to "send a message." Sharff draws an indelible portrait of this terrible, wonderful neighborhood, and especially of its children, and makes a convincing case for bureaucracies more in touch with the realities of the poor.

Beautiful pictorial of the American Muscle car era staring with the 1960s until the begining of the 1970's. Accurate production figures and information on the most rare, most outrageous and most famous. A must for any muscle car addict. One interesting note; not one Corvette made it into the collection which upon reflection is also authentic as it was America's only sports car, not a true muscle car. My favourite entry is the 1964 Ford Thunderbolt with a 427 (1/4 mile in 11.76 @ 122 mph). "Not suitable for driving to and from the strip, let alone on the street in everyday use" warned Hot Rod Magazine.

This was a great book on how to teach my child safety rules. little tommy,(my son) loves Kristofur Kitty, so this was a must. I hope you enjoy this book

This book is unusually rich in story and in illustrations. Though picture book in format, it is for older children. In brief, it focuses on a shanty-town developing outside of a large South American city. The children have no place to play, except for the street ("La calle es libre" of the title...), and the street is not safe. They start a campaign to get a park, but need the intervention of the mothers of the community and of a journalist to get the local government's attention. Promises are then made, and a site designated, but no work happens. Again, the children kick off the process, and this time the entire community gets involved in making the park. This is a rich and believably complex story of people making a difference, further enhanced by wonderfully detailed illustrations, which alternate full-color and black-and-white from spread to spread.

This book was incredible. I have never been able to communicate so well with my Puerto Rican friends in such a way. The things I can say to the Hoochies is unbelievable. Yoweeee!