It's a wonderful book for women who desires with all their hearts to be an example of the Crhistian faith at home and everywhere! It contains the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit and it brings to us (women) how we should behave in every occasion! What is the best behaviour at home with your kids and husband? How to react in a difficult moment and prove the real meaning of Christianity? It's all in there! Read it. It will be your second Bible!

I read this book at the Children's Story Hour in our town. This is the first Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle I read to the children. They were on the edge of their seats, laughing and participating! They begged me to bring more Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories. I have and they just as big a success!

My niece in Seattle loved this book!!

The book is roughly 512 pages long. It is formatted as an intervirew that Bill Moyers, the host has, with some of the most intellectually enlightening people of our generation. The book is divided into two sections: Our changing American Values and American Values in the New Global Society. The topics discussed usually correspond to thetheme of the section. The book is culiminated from the TV of the same name that ran on PBS for a time. Among the people profiled are Noam Chomsky, arguable one of the most important intellectuals alive, Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)an extremely prolific writer of science and science fiction, E.L Doctorow and Joseph Heller, who sadly died in December of last year.

The book is essantially Bill Moyers talking with men and women on the topics on which they usually major or like to discuss in. For example, Bill had a candid interview with Chomsky on the idea of democracy and how propoganda is used in it. He discussed with Steven Weinberg, an influential scientist, some of the ideas behind behind science and how truly beutiful science really is. And others from Isaac Asimov talking about the future to a couple of different black writers and acadamians talking about the role of racism in society and how it can be overcome.

This book is great for many reasons. One of them is the fact that it does, in my opinion of course, portray not just one side of the argument but in some senses it brings differnt people of different views and let them in a sense talk about things and look at things in a different way from what the other person said. There is a wealth of information. Plus, this book isn't "liberal" or "conservative." Its a book that presents a lot of different views. Most importantly it allows people to get and understand new ideas that could help them understand the world around them more and especially from people who have spent their whole life devoted to that topic. This book is like a dinner conversation with some of the most genius men of the past 20 or 30 years.

The ideas covered here are ideas from how life is led, to the problem with our educational system. It aint just about boring things that "an average Joe" wouldn't care about. I believe that this book can be very insightful even for the average intellect reader.

So buy this book and prepare to be immersed in incredible ideas and thoughts that could help you support or maybe change your own.

The "Writing Clear Essays" book is used at Opp High School in Advance English classes and I had the privelege of getting to use it. It helped me with outlines and showed me how to improve on alot of skills that I already had. The book helped me overcome many obstacles in papers that I had to write and also on my term paper. The book is a great asset to all classes and for many ages.

I love the book so much I wrote a song to promote the book at libraries. (I promote reading and tie in other values.) Our public library system lacks this book. However, after promoting this book, most libraries orderer copies without any luck. It's a book that should be used with pre-school and beginning readers in regards to handling emotions. A book ahead of its time, but now is relevant with the escalation of youth crime. It handles negative emotions in a way that a child can understand. With proper marketing and repackaging this book would be a big hit!

Again Dr. Hayes conveys her own special warmth and sincerity with this no nonsense book for LD adults. She gives information AND answers to questions LD adults face. She is a special person and a wonderful Mom and Grandmother. I know her as Mom!

This book is short enough to read through quickly (especially being a teacher its hard to find a little free time to do some reading besides textbooks and students work :).) I read it to my first graders and they loved it. They enjoyed seeing a fun side of being a teacher. They found this book to be funny and in their words "two thumbs up".
I can relate to some of the stories such as asking pizza places for pizza boxes and cardboard circles for projects. As a teacher my mind never stops thinking of ways to use things (shoe boxes, deli trays, milk jugs, etc) in creative ways.
This book is fun and great to read at the end of a CRAZY day :) Enjoy!

Your Home A Lighthouse demonstrates a very simple way to share your Christian faith with friends, neighbors and coworkers who are open to hearing about your beliefs. Opening your home, reading straight from the Bible (Book of John), and being real and transparent with people impacts their interest where biases might previously have existed against Christianity. This book is a great tool for a group of people who want to talk about who Jesus said he was/is, and how the Bible details his life. So many lives around the world have been changed as a result of this effective approach to faith discussions. I highly recommend exploring the Jacks' method and applying it to your life. Make your home a lighthouse, too.

Francie Nolan is a character who will long be remembered by anyone who reads "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Bright but lonely, poor but resourceful, Francie Nolan is captured from ages 11 to 16 with poignancy and love. Francie is her daddy's "prima donna" and she treasures his love while fighting to win her mother's. Although she never achieves the place in her mother's heart that her brother holds, her strength and sheer perserverance guide her through difficult times. Like the sturdy tree that grows outside her window and survives all catastrophes, Francie Nolan survives poverty, lack of formal education, sexual assault, extreme loneliness, and lost love.

The reader first meets Francie at age 11 when, as an inquisitive young girl, her favorite time of the day is on Saturday when she can go to the library then rush home with her treasure and read the afternoon away on the fire escape of her Brooklyn tenement. As a young girl, she feels "rich" when she receives bits of chalk and stubby pencils her mother and father bring home from their janitoring job at a local school. She finds simple pleasures in her life, like being allowed to sleep in the front room on Saturday night and watch the busy street below. You will ache to go back in time and be Francie's best friend as she battles loneliness and rejection by her peers but learns to live a solitary life. But, like the tree, she is ready to burst into bloom and when she does it is beautiful to read about.

This book is a wonderful description of life in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn and a strong statement on the hope offered to the immigrants who came to the United States. The story emphasizes quite clearly the value of reading and a good education, but most importantly the strength of family and the dreams that sustain people. As Francie learns, "there had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it flashing glory." Young teens and mature women alike will relish Francie's story and hold its message in their hearts forever.

The most amazing aspect of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is its universal appeal to readers of any age, any race. Opening the covers of this book is like stepping into a time machine and visiting the squalor of 1920's Brooklyn, N.Y. Here Betty Smith's descriptive magic plunges you into the ugliness of poverty and the beauty of the people who fought to overcome it... Francie Nolan, a dreamy child who finds her escape in books... Johnny Nolan, her handsome young father, who finds his escape -- and ultimate tragedy -- in the bottle... and Katie Nolan, her beautiful, hardened mother, who realizes that education is the only way her children can escape the life she is forced to endure. Although this novel was written many decades ago, modern readers will find the prose to be shockingly frank and as realistic as it is descriptive. The only fault with the book, which covers the span of Francie's life from birth until college, is that it eventually has to end. No history text can make the past come alive the way "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" can...no movie can leave its audience with more satisfaction from a story well-told. I dare anyone to read this book and not come away a different person...it is, in fact, a true work of art.

This has been my favorite book since I first read it in 1994 -- dislodging Gone With the Wind since 1986. I have to reserve several uninterrupted hours for reading it because I literally hate to put it down!

The story is about Francie, a young girl in early 20th century Brooklyn, her younger brother Nealy and their housekeeper mother Katie and their singing waiter/alcoholic father Johnny. There is also an interesting sub-story about Katie's close relationship with her own sisters throughout the novel.

But the story belongs to Francie and all the scenes of childhood and adolescence that make up the mosaic of any girl's life: a schoolyard meanness; trying to earn some pennies for candy; planning for the future by putting 5 cents in a little tin can that is your "bank"; loving an imperfect dad and suspecting your mother really loves your brother more .... and the more tragic events: a molestation and her father's death. Interspersed in all of this are snippets of their interactions with friends and neighbors in Brooklyn, a largely concrete sunless neighborhood where, right outside Francie's fire escape, one tree has the courage to grow despite it all.