This a touching book that all teenage girls must read. It brings you into the heart and mind of a teeneage girl who has just lost everything. . .but then falls in love. . .every teenage girl at one point or another. . .IS MaRiAh. Many may not relate to MaRiAh's situation, but will be emotionally attached to her story. P.S. I LOVE YOU. . .is the book that launched the world's favorite teen-age romances. . .*does Barbara Conklin have an EMAIL address?!*

I read this book when I was 10 and at 23 I still have the tattered book in my home library. The story is unforgettable and just lovely. I've read it a few times and cry everytime. The story is touching and honest! Find it, buy it, read it and love it. I highly recommend P.S. I Love You!

This book is about highschool love and what happens when your first love gets sick with a deadly cancer. Keep the kleenex nearby.

Mariah has all sorts of summer plans that ao awry when her parents get divorced. Now she is forced to help her mother with a summer job. She is really not looking forward to her summer and then suddenly she meets Paul. He makes everything all right in her life just because he's in it. It doesn't matter that her personal life is in limbo and things are changing, never to be the same. He helps her through it all. Then Mariah finds out Paul has cancer. Can Mariah help Paul through his ordeal that suddenly makes her problems seem so trivial?

This is a beautiful story of first love coming at a time when a teenaged girl realizes what it is like to "have to grow up" and that nothing will ever be the same. I read this book for the first time quite a few years ago when I was 11 or 12. I can't tell you how many times I have re-read it since. This story has stuck in my mind and I reflected on it often. It's a great story and helps put what turns out to be minor, workable problems of a teenaged girl into perspective.

Valor and Lace, edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn, is an anthology of eleven short histories of women that lived during the War Between the States and contributed to the side of the South during that conflict. Each of the anthologies is readable and most are well researched. As with any book containing material from several authors, there are some chapters that are better researched and written than others. However, in general the book is concise and presents various aspects of the Southern woman's life during the War. The title and subtitle (The Roles of Confederate Women 1861-1865) are somewhat misleading. The book does not present a comprehensive history of women in general during the war but rather presents the reader with eleven specific cases of extraordinary women who felt the need to commit themselves to the cause for which they believed, be it the Southern cause for independence or the moral cause to care for the wounded, regardless of their political affiliation. While it would be erroneous for the reader to assume this is a true picture of every Southern woman, it is an appropriate portrayal of certain aspects of life both at home and on or near the battlefield and the role that some women played during the Civil War. This reveiwer recommends the book to any student of the War as well as to those readers interested in the social roles of women during that period of American history.