I personally luv all the Cheetah Girl books I even wrote my own internet site on the Cheetah Girls: Groups.msn.com/Cheetahgirlsworld. I think ths book is good because I can sort of relate with Dorinda. I mean the boy who I'm in luv with is mixed with everything and people say stuff. But I luv the book and u would too ...

I have read all of the cheetah girls' book all except volume 9-10. They are wonderful books for young girls to read... Dorinda's secret shows that you should be proud of yourself no matter what race religion gender you are. I really like this book, I can relate with Dorinda because my brother is half white.... This book is all that and a bag of chips

The cheetah girls books are so cool. Dorinda's secret is cool because she learns that racism is wrong. It was a touching story. It was DDDDAAAAA BBBBBBOOOOOOMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBBB!

After having decided to remove my 2 1/2 month old son from life support, this was the ONLY book I could find which dealt with our situation. Dr. Davis deals with this topic with such insight and sensitivity I felt like she must have been there with us every step of the way. Of all of the books which I was given on dealing with life after the death of a baby, this was the one which truly gave me comfort and helped me to find peace with the decisions we made about our son's care.

This book wraps it's arms around you and hugs you oh so tight.

Dr. Davis changed my life with her book. In 1993, my husband and I were faced with the toughest decision of our lives -- to continue the fight for our son's life or not. Dr. Davis helped me to realize that no matter what decision we made at that point, we would question it -- That there were no easy choices to make. The line from the book that has stuck with me all these years is, "Were we prolonging life....or prolonging death in our attempts to keep our son here on this earth?"

Reading this book will help any parent, with a similar decision to make, come to terms with their decision. Anytime I begin to question our decision from years ago, I just reread Deborah's book, and I confirm that our decision was the most unselfish thing we've ever done in our lives.

May it bring peace to your souls, as well.

Carolyn

"Soon you will kill Seal not become one," says young Kyo's father, but Kyo had different ideas. Finally the moment Kyo had been waiting for, he was going to hunt his first Seal. Kyo found a seal and was going to kill it when he found how innocent looking he was. As Kyo began inspecting her he realized how sweet and kind she was. Kyo named this friendly creature Tooky. Kyo's Uncle George was coming down to hunt a seal for the Big City Zoo. George goes hunting with Kyo, and Kyo realizes his friend is in danger. Kyo tries to convince George that there is really no seal in Tooky's breathing hole, and leads George away from Tooky's usual breathing hole. They go on a wild goose chase, but don't find any seals. The next morning George went out to Tooky's usual breathing hole, because he had a feeling Kyo was lying. Uncle George finds Tooky, and tranquilizes her. Kyo has to stop his George from taking Tooky to the Big City Zoo, breaking their friendship, and revealing his secret.

I think this was a great book. Towards the end of the book it really grabs your attention because during the book you really fall in love with Tooky. Kyo was a very courageous boy to be able to hold on to his secret.

This book is about a young Eskimo boy named Kyo, who is going to shoot his first seal, but when the time comes, he looks into the seal's eyes and puts the harpoon down. Kyo becomes very good friends with the seal and decides to name him Tooky. One day, Kyo's uncle comes from the city to capture a seal and bring it back to the city. Every morning Kyo and his uncle go to look for a seal, so Kyo points him the opposite direction of her normal breathing hole, but one morning, his uncle gets up earlier than Kyo and finds the hole. Kyo tries to convince his uncle to let the seal go, but it was no use.

I think this was an extraordinary book! This is definitely Deborah Davis' best book. It leaves the reader in suspense. I highly recommend this book to anybody who likes books that are about relationships between animals and people, and about friends and how far they will go for each other. This book is for all ages. It made me feel like I was actually there through the happy and the sad times.

This treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's connection to the medieval period opens new territory in Fitzgerald studies and in Chaucer studies as well. With the current attention to early 20th century medievalism and its influence on such authors as Hemingway, Chopin, and Fitzgerald, this book is cutting edge.

This book was very true to life and gets you involved in Lacy's life. I cry every time I read it!!

MY NAME IS PORTIA MCDONALD. I AM DOING MY TERM PAPER ON BLACK INVENTORS WHO NEVER GOT CREDIT FOR THEIR WORK. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT. I WAS WONDERING COULD YOU PLEASE SEND ME SOME INFORMATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I LIVED AT 717 N. 1ST AVE. LAUREL, MS 39440.

I THINK THAT IT IS SAD THAT A LOT OF GIRLS DO N0T READ THE CHEETAH GIRLS THES GIRLS GOT IT GOING ON ! IF YOU READ THE CHEETAH GIRLS YOU ALLREDY KNOW THAT THEY ARE 5 GIRLS WHO CAN SING AND ARE LOOKING FOR A RECROD DEAL IN THIS BOOK THEY COME CLOSER TO THER DREAM WHEN THEY SING AT THE OKIE-DOKIE CORAL AND THER RIVLES THE CASH MONEY GIRLS (CMG) WHO EACH MEMBER IN THE GROOP HAS A NAME OF A DEAD PREZ ( ABRAHMMA)COME TO SING WITH THEM AND THEN THE CHEETAH GIRLS ARE ACUSD OF COPING THE CMGS LERICS !

Deborah Davis has combined startling facts & bereaved parents feelings exceptionally well. As the Mother of a stillborn son 9/11/97, I find this book to be the best I've found to date (and I've read at least 20!) Ironically, the author indicates in her book that she is not a bereaved parent ... usually books written by non-bereaved parents are "just facts" and tend to be rather cold. Deborah, however, excells in describing the intense emotions we as bereaved parents feel after the loss of a child and has included excerpts from bereaved parents which offer comfort and hope, helping the "we're not so all alone" feeling of our grief. Thank you, Deborah.

After giving birth to my son and having him die 10 days later, I was so confused as to what I was supposed to be feeling. "Empty Cradle, Broken Heart" helped me to understand what I was feeling and made me realize that I was not alone, and that what I was feeling was normal. By using quotes from bereaved parents, the reader realizes that they are not alone in their thoughts. It encourages the reader to examine how they feel and accept their grief. This book helped me through the saddest and most difficult period of my life. A copy of the book was lent to me, and I was so impressed by it that I am purchasing my own copy to refer back to it later in my life. An excellent gift idea for a close friend or relative who is going through a similar situatation, or read it yourself to understand how that person is feeling.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is an excellent resource for bereaved parents. Debra Davis takes parents step by step through the grieving process and helps them to realize that they are not alone in their pain. Reading Empty Cradle, Broken Heart helped me to recognize that my feelings were not strange and that it is okay to grieve for my daughter in my own way and in my own time. Chapters include: grieving and emotional recovery, painful feelings, affirming your baby, you and your partner, your family, and support networks. Debra encourages parents to realize that they did the best that they could for their baby. When you feel that no one understands the pain you are going through, read this book, it helps.

This is the most complete and faithful translation of Journey to the West I have yet found. It is the third version of the story I've read, and unlike those other versions ("Adventures of Monkey King"/ISBN 0962076511 and "Monkey : A Journey to the West [ABRIDGED]"/ISBN 1570625816), it contains the complete and unabridged story, preserving very faitflly both the style and content of the original story.

This extreme faithfulness is both a strength and a weakness. It's a strength in that you get a real feeling for the scope of the original work, and you get to hear all the interesting little back-stories and side-stories that make Journey to the West one of the great works of Chinese literaure. It's a weakness because these stories often seem completely irrelevant, and may be quite confusing to someone who is not familiar with Chinese culture and religion.

For example, every time something happens in Heaven, Hell or in the palace of the Tang Emperor, the book includes a complete list of everyone who attended. In Heaven, at least, many of the names are descriptive (names of stars, constellations, etc.) and are therefore translated. In the Tang Emperor's palace, though, you'll get a list of 10 or 20 names in Chinese, and only some of the names ever get stories attached to them in the book (and I challenge any non-Chinese speaker to remember the names when they do show up again).

There's also a lot of poetry, and though the translations are good, translated poetry can never equal the original. In one sequence, a fisherman and a woodsman argue in verse for 10 or more pages of very small type, frequently singing songs set to tunes few non-Chinese would recognize by name. These characters are important only in that the end of their conversation sets up a conflict, so the only purpose of the sequence is to provide a chance to read the poetry. It's good poetry, to be sure, but it really can drag a bit.

You can't just automatically skip over all the poems, as you might do with Tolkien, either. Elements of the story are often told in verse. You can usually skim if you're not interested in a particular bit of verse, but don't skip it entirely.

The structure of the work is also surprisingly complex at times, especially given its age. It will at times veer far from the main thrust of the story to recount the entire life history of a character, and has many side stories that somehow tie back into the main plot several chapters later. You may at times find yourself wondering just why the author chose to include a particular bit of story, but there's almost always a payoff waiting somewhere down the line.

Another problem is that the style of the storytelling is not very concise. If someone in the story needs to recount what has happened to them, you'll get a second, (fortunately much abridged) version of an earlier portion of the story, written as dialog, this time. You could make similar sorts of complaints about many of the early great works of English fiction, or probably just about any other country's older fiction, so this is not really a strong criticism given the work's great age, but I often found myself wishing the author (or the translator) had just written, "he told them what had happened" and left it at that.

There were also many quirks of the translation that bothered me. The word "memorial" was used throughout instead of "memorandum". It took me quite a while to figure out that was what was going on. I read all of the abridged translation that also made the same mistake throughout, but still didn't figure it out until I was several chapters into this one.

Will all these complaints, you're probably wondering why I gave the book 4 stars. The fact is, for all its faults and quirks, "Journey to the West" is still one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. The Monkey King is without a doubt my favorite character in any work I have ever read or watched. The story of his journey is a brilliant parable on the jouney to enlightenment, while at the same time a story of great humor and exciting action. It also provides fascinating insight into the history and traditional culture of China.

If you want to get the whole story and can't read Chinese, this edition is your absolute best bet. (Indeed, it's pretty much your only bet.) Some of the other translations may be a faster read, but none are as satisfying.

Journey to the West is probably the most well-known tale amongst Chinese folk the world over. It is a story that has been adapted in the form of operas, television series, cartoons and movies many times over. To be able to read a complete and unabridged version of this epic is a joy indeed. My only regret is that as a Western-educated Chinese, I am not able to read this masterpiece in it's original language. Although the translator does a very good job at translating the book, I am sure many nuances and subtleties of the Chinese language have been lost in the translation.

The story is a simple one. Set during the early Tang dynasty (the peak of Chinese civilisation), a holy Buddhist monk has to travel from China to India to collect the true Mahayana Buddhist scriptures from the Lord Buddha himself, in order to bring enlightenment to his fellow country men. The journey is a long and ardous one, not least because numerous demons lie waiting in ambush for a chance to capture and eat the monk, as his holy body will confer immortality on whoever eats it. Thus, the Goddess of Compassion assembles a strange group of bodyguards for the monk: the proud and mischievous Monkey, the lustful and greedy Pig, the loyal and steadfast Friar Sand, and a Dragon Prince transformed into a horse. Their various adventures are so full of humor and wacky hijinks that I cannot help myself from laughing out from time to time. Monkey is the ultimate Chinese version of the universal trickster-hero. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book. You will not regret it for a moment.

This is a wonderful translation of the Journey to the West. It is an unabridged translation, therefore it is 3 books long. But it is worth it. Not only is it written clearly, but it keeps the style of the original, meaning that interwoven between pharagraphs of prose are poems. This give the book a wonderful charm that the abridged, prose versions lack. The ancient Chinese thought, such as yin and yang, Daoism, Chinese Buddhism, also give the book an authentic flavor that enriches the experience of reading this classic. It is still the same wonderful story of the michevous Monkey King, his difficulties with the gods in heaven, and his redeeming pilgramage with the Buddhist monk/priest Sanzang to find sutras. For anyone seriously interested in this story and who doesn't read Chinese, this is the edition for them!