This book is an excellent source for anyone who is intrested in urban development and the problems associated with it in an arid environment. I initially had to read to book for a class, but intend to purchase it for use as a reference for my job. I highly recommend this book.

On a scale of 1 to 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best I rate this book 4 stars because I didn't find this book to be very funny. I thought this book was going to be like Louis Sachar's Wayside School books because it is about kids in a school. It was a little exciting when the wrestlers went to the professional wrestling ring at Bailey City High School while the parents were protesting outside. When the Vikings, Howie, Eddie, Liza and Melody go to Burger Doodle for their favorite Doodlegum shakes the Vikings stuff their mouths with French fries, milk shakes and Doodle Burgers, which I thought was a little strange. When I was reading this book I kept asking myself, "Is there going to be a Viking Invasion?" Read the book to find out.

I read this book for a school assignment. Since I live near Pittsburgh I found this book to be particularly interesting. It is written about a time long ago, when my Grandfather was young. It is a great book for kids, and it will help them learn about what things were like during the Depression.

My daughter brought this book home and the title made me curious, so I read it. The storyline of this book is disjointed, the content is utterly ridiculous and serves only to insult the intelligence of young readers. Under the guise of fiction/mystery literature this book is laden with occult symbolisms aimed directly at the unsuspecting minds of young children . All in all, I find this to be more appropriate reading for 5th grade and up.

The name of this book is Dragons Don't Cook Pizza and the authors are Debbie Dadey and Marcia Jones.

The book was awesome! Even though it's for kids younger kids than I am, I still read it.
The best part in the book is when they all work together to figure out the riddle.
The worst part was when Eddie didn't think that Dragons existed.

This book was cool, funny and exciting.
I hope whoever likes to read picks out this book and enjoys it, because it's worth your while.

Four third grade kids named Howie,Melody,Eddie,and Liza. They always have a mystery to solve. There are lots of books in this series. They are all good. In this book, the 3rd grade class went on a field trip to a bakery. They think something is very fishy. They come back that night and tryed to figure out the case out. Is the man who cooks the pizza a dragon? I like these books because they are mysteries and you get relly exited about the mystery.

i was just lookin for a lennon book when i came across this book ive never read it i never will how the hell can some of u lot give this 5 stars? tha chapman done it for publicity and some of you are falling for it!even if your not lennon fans why are you so interested in this scum? ive heard he has posters on his prison wall saying i killed john lennon he is proud of it! and you silly people are interested in this killer? may i ask why?to read about him and to say his name is giving him the fame he wants dont do it!!and the authour if he thinks this is some sort of a good idea to give publicity to that scum well he is one <@!(* thank you.

It hurts me a bit to read that Chapman was a nice guy, appreciated for some of the things he did. A picture even shows him playing a "guitar during a meeting of his prayer group from the Chapel Woods Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia." Someone who was six years old when Chapman shot John Lennon in 1980 would have been 18 in 1992, when this book was published, and decided to remain a nobody in American society, could have been 25 in 1999 and taken part in the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. A real nobody wouldn't have known that the bombs were falling on an embassy, and nobody would really be held responsible, either, because everybody wants to maintain their rights to be nobody. The frightening thing about this book is its consideration of options for anyone to be somebody in a global society which encompasses millions of people in the United States and billions in the world. There are pages in this book about drug use. Is this book the reason that so many more people in our prisons are serving time for drugs than back in 1980, when some people were surprised that John Lennon was shot?

It was entertaining and extremely informative. I really cannot say enough good things about this book. What I love is that most text in the book is dialogue taken from interviews with MD Chapman, and you really get a chance to know him through his words. Terrific. You see an emotional, logical, artistic, and human side of him.

I completed a thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail this year, and I have say that these "official" guides are pretty awful.

If you want a real CDT guidebook, get the Jim Wolf guides from the Continental Divide Trail Society - they are infinitely superior to these Westcliffe guides. Wolf is better written, more detailed, has better information and data, and on and on and on.

The Westcliffe had 2 advantages for me - one was that they were written in my direction of travel (except for CO, whihc is written in a different direction than the other guidebooks??!!!), which has something to be said for it; and the second is that they are occasionally more up to date as far as recent changes go, which means that they helped out in a couple potentially iffy situations.

Other than that, though, the Westcliffe guides had me FUMING throughout the trip - they are riddled with inaccuracies, mistakes, omissions, bad writing, unclear writing, and on and on and on. Every single day, I think, almost without fail, the Westcliffe guides would blow it in at least one major place. Now I know the CDT is (at this point) still all about using a variety of maps and books and whatever else you can dredge up to find your way and not relying on one guidebook source, and we did. So in that light, you could think of the Westcliffe guides as just another piece to add or subtract. But standing on their own, the fact that they purport to be "official" is preposterous, not just because they omit some great "non-official" sections like the Gila Middle Fork, Parry Peak, and Temple Pass, but because they are sold as "guidebooks" when they are more like "lostbooks." To be honest, I think the Westcliffe guides are so bad that they border on being irresponsible.

I had been thinking for some time to do a backpacking trip on the Continental Divide Trail. I knew that I would need some assistance.

I purchased this book in the fall of 1999. I spent the next six months planning my adventure. Since I had only 7 days to spend on the trail, I decided to hike Segments 24, 25 and 26 (from Winfield to Hancock).

I planned my trip exactly form this book. When I got on the trail July 1, 2000, it was if I had my own personal trail guide with me. I knew exactly what to expect, how far I would hike each day, where the water and the good camp sites were. The driving directions were very accurate to the trailhead, the mileage and guidemarkers were also accurate.

Each night I camped at the locations I expected and found water where the author said it would be.

I finished my 7 day hike within 2 hours of my expected time! Never had I been on the CDT before!

If you have any interest in the CDT I would urge you to purchase this book. I'm now planning my adventure for next year from this book.

Last summer I hiked the CDT, through the wemmenuche wilderness in southern Colorado. This book was used every day to help us out of our 12 day expedition. The details of the trails described in the book are written so well that I often reread parts of it to put a picture in my mind of the awesome land. Tom Jones does an outstanding job. I will keep this book forever, use it on the trail again, and someday pass it to my children.

This is a ok book but I don't think that it is very realistic and it is kind of stupid. Thank You

I review this book Giants Don't Go Snowboarding would seem like a good book since i've read alot of these kinds of books from Baily School Kids collecten. These are really injoyable books to read. I would reccomend this book to people who like adventures.

This book was really cool! I liked it best when Hugh Mongus threw giant snowballs at the kids and when they helped him figure out a way stay out of trouble. It made me want to read all the other Bailey School Kids books by Marcia Thornton Jones.

You would think that by now, the 21st installment in the Bailey School Kids series, that someone other than a bunch of third graders would notice all these strange characters showing up!! Actually, that's a good deal of the fun of the series!!

The gang is assembled again, this time to play ball against their school rival. Problem is, they never win! It's like the field is CURSED or something... Along comes Coach Tuttle who is perhaps THE most uncoordinated person around! He slips, trips, falls and bangs himself up something terrible. It's like the man HIMSELF is cursed or something... He even carries around HUGE bundles of bandages to patch himself up with. When he's done, he looks a lot like... well, like a MUMMY! But mummies don't coach softball... DO THEY?!?

"Mummies Don't..." is a much more complicated book than any of the others in the series. It involves this supposedly human coach, a missing diamond from a mummy's tomb, the Bailey School baseball diamond, Mrs. Jeeper's house (the 3rd grade teacher who is supposedly a vampire), and a curse. Somehow, it all gets jumbled up and doesn't make much sense, though everything seems to come clean in the end. There is little suspense in this book, and that razzing-insult-a-minute that we've grown to know and love is also missing from this work. I personally was expecting more of a REAL mummy to make an appearance, vs. some clumsy dude in elastic bandages. For die-hard fans of the series who wish to proudly say, "yes, *I've* read all the books!", I recommend it. If you're just into reading a few here, a few there, then this one can go on the skip list.

I like this book because I like mysteries. It is about a mummy coaching softball. The mummy is always getting hurt. That's why he's all wrapped up in bandages. I think that other kids would like this book too because it's funny.

I think its a good book. I recommend you read this book
because its funny. you will defentuly like this if you like
soft ball.

I was babysitting my bratty sister and her snotty nosed friend. They fell asleep and I was bored so I read this book. Absolute garbage! Why would anyone - even my bratty sister - want to waste time and money on this boring nonsense? GOD! You might as well play "twinkle twinkle little star" by burping. It's just as entertaining.

I gave this book five stars because it is a great book which has lot's of mysteries and it has very interesting things. This book is about a new bus driver. The Bailey school kid's think he is a gargoley and when they ask them to take them to the library he say's it's like a home to him. Unfortunately the library is going to get destroyed. When they get to the library they see the gargoyles in the roof they decide to go see in the roof and they see a gargoyle just like Mr.Stone the bus driver and they see Mr.Stones sunglasses. But when they find out that Mr.Stone is a gargoyle they fight for the library to stay. And the old library becomes a new library but with the gargoyle.

This is my favorite Bailey School kids book because it reminds me of my bus driver. He's really old. My other favorite Bailey book is Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball.

This was my first experience with the "modern' James Bond. I strongly suspect that the only people who like Gardner (or Benson) are the ones who have never read Fleming. This one dimensional book had a weak villian, the 2 key plot elements had no apparent connection, and an uncharacteristically dumb action by Bond which led to the deaths of 2 allies. This last was only a plot device to prolong the novel. And Bond falling in love with some incompetent woman he just me, get real. This Bond is just a poor copy. At least the movies are fun.

Ian Fleming's James Bond is the gold standard. To me, From Russia with Love is the finest novel in that distinguished, exciting series. But Fleming is gone, and we are fortunate to have John Gardner to continue the stories for us.

Gardner's stories suffer from two basic weaknesses: He doesn't have the full range of Cold War enemies to work with and his doesn't have the same hard edge to his characters and writing.

Death is Forever veers back toward the Fleming books by involving Wolfgang Weisen, onetime director of East Germany's Security Service. He makes for a truly fascinating villain. Fleming would have made him even more fascinating, but you will enjoy him and his plot to destabilize the West. Although the Cold War is over in this book, Gardner finds a way to create an extension of the Cold War. That is good for all of us readers.

In all other ways, the book is a typical Gardner offering -- serviceable plot and relentless Bond.

If you have a choice between reading a Fleming novel and a Gardner one, you should always read a Fleming one first. If you have read and liked all of the Fleming books, you will be pleased with this Gardner offering. Enjoy!

I'm not a "die-hard Bond fanatic" but I've seen the movies and read some of the novels, and after reading some of the other comments, mostly negative, about Gardner and his novels I thought I'd set down some thoughts on DEATH IS FOREVER. For me Gardner is as close as anyone's ever gotten to Fleming and not that far behind. DEATH IS FOREVER was an enthralling novel and the best Gardner I have read (with SCORPIUS a close second). Gardner's Bond, like Fleming's, is not a super-hero with rocket-boats and submarine cars never at a loss for humorous one-liners every time he kills a guy. He's a flesh-and-blood human being as vulnerable as anyone else who survives by using his head. Of all the movies, the two that are most faithful to Fleming's original conception of the Bond character are "From Russia with Love" and "Licence to Kill." In my opinion, needless to say, the two best Bond films. And this is the Bond of DEATH IS FOREVER and the Gardner novel series. As for the Benson novels, I've never understood why the head of the James Bond fan club was chosen to succeed Gardner as Bond writer and not an actual published novelist.