Henni and her neighborhood friends, Zev, Danielle, Frank, andBriquette, are very sad when their neighbor Old Auntie Lilliedies. Old Auntie Lillie's apartment gets "the treatment" and is completely transformed, making Henni and her friends wonder who is moving there anyway. The new neighbors arrive and immediately they decide to call them the Phonies because they aren't who they seem to be. The Phonies complain about EVERY LITTLE THING and it is driving everyone crazy. This is a very funny and interesting book and there is no way you can stop in the middle and forget about it. Everyone should read it.

I am 12 years old and when I first read this excellent book I was 10. I have been re-reading it on and off for two years! Elizabeth Honey's brilliant detective/comedy novel is a wonderful recipe of humour, adventure, neighbourhood struggles and wild airport chases. The book had me laughing from the first page and I couldn't put it down down. The book is chock-full of likeable/evil/funny characters and Henni's narrative style is chatty and easy. The sequel, 'Fiddleback', is also wonderful, and at times it touches your heart.A must for any reader!

Elizabeth Honey is a fantastic writer. I love all of her books but this 45 & 47 Stella Sreet and everything that happened is the best. I just bought the sequel Fiddle-Back and I can't wait to read it. Anyway, 45 & 47 Stella Street is about a girl named Henni. Along with her sister, Danielle, friends Zev and Frank they set out to stop the Phonie's, the new posh and evil people in the street. This book will make you wet your pants with laughter. I think that this book is the best and I say you should read it.

Elizabeth Honey is the author of Don't Pat the Wombat has a great idea for a book. She writes about a kid named Mark and his friends are going to camp with their teachers! One of their teachers nicknamed the Boom, because he hates all kids and tries to drown a kid named Journa! Mark and his friends have to save Jouna from the Boom. This book is funny and exciting. That's why you should read this book.

Remember summer camp in all it's wonderful, horrible glory? Elizabeth Honey does and she brings the memories back to life with this outrageous and funny tale about a group of Aussie sixth grade boys (known as the Coconuts and later, the Convicts) off to camp.

Narrated by Mark (or "Exclamation Mark"), he gives us the tell-all tales about his friends and their antics. They befriend newcomer Jonah, who takes on the Convict's ultimate nemesis, teacher Mr. Cromwell, a.k.a. the Bomb. ("Cromwell at camp is like Darth Vader at your birthday party.")

This a frenetic and fun book, documenting the misadventures of outback camplife (complete with mud fights, exploring, an end-of-camp pageant and of course, wombats!

Definately worth a read!

As a teacher who yearly goes to the library to get books about insects, specifically bees, this is the best book ever on the subject! (The bee is our school mascot.) For two reasons:
It takes a complicated subject, how honey is produced, and makes it simple enough for 5 year olds to understand; and the handcut collage artwork is something five year olds can handle in an art unit on collage. More, please, Ms. Wallace!

In A Taste Of Honey, Lily Bear asks her father a great many questions and in doing so a jar of honey is traced back to Mike's Market, the honey farm, the beekeeper, the honeycomb, and ultimately to the bees themselves! Author and illustrator Nancy Wallace uses brightly colored diagrams and sidebars in this delightful and entertaining picturebook story for youngsters 4 to 8 showing all the steps of making honey from beehive to dining table in clear, simple, and engaging detail.

There are some books that are perfect to read on gloomy days when you're feeling lonesome and this is one of them. Every story is perfect; a small visit with someone you would like to know whose life is in quiet turmoil just edged with hope. Her prose is perfect and compassionate, every detail just right, every word right where it should be. She's a fabulous writer and I'm so sorry to see that her other books are out-of-print!

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This book won the "Picture Book of the Year" awarded by the Children's Book Council of Australia in 1997. It's easy to see why.

The beautiful water color illustrations accurately portray the area around the scenic seaside village of Lorne, located west of Melbourne Australia.

Elizabeth Honey is responsible for the pictures as well as the words in "Not a Nibble". It's rare to see great authorship and artistic talent so effectively combined. Her story although centred on our little hero Susie, will also have great appeal for boys. After all, the story pivots around that globally popular pastime of fishing.

To the non-Australian reader some of the fish names may seem strange. Overcoming that, is Elizabeth's portrayal of one of childhood's most enjoyable pastimes. The appeal of dangling a line off the end of a pier, must be a universal pleasure.

Susie together with Mum and Dad and three brothers have a seven-day camping holiday at Lorne. Susie is the most determined to catch a fish but she has the least luck. In fact she catches nothing! Getting teased by her brothers doesn't help. But Susie gets a special reward for her patience. While staring out to sea, almost ready to give up, she is the first to see a mother Southern Right Whale and her newborn calf.

This is a very rewarding book and will appeal to boys and girls of all ages.

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A serious story with a lot of laughs along the way. Elizabeth is a pro writer for younger kids.

This book is a lot of fun to read, and I would recommend it to any kid who wants something that is exciting and mysterious. It brought back some memories of the time that I went camping, and it was really great to remember it. The story has a lot of twists and turns, and it keeps you on edge throughout the whole book while still having a really great and even cute storyline. If you are thinking about buying this book, you have made a good choice to do so, and hopefully you will decide to buy it! :) Hope this helps!

I have not read all of SEP's books, but Honey Moon is my favourite so far. In fact, I think that it just might be my favourite romance book ever...and I've read a lot of them!

The main attraction is the characters. They are wounded, flawed and inescapably human. I found them utterly believable- even if their situations were anything but! My family has foster kids, and trust me, SEP characterizations of adults dealing with childhood abandonment issues is dead on. And while Romance is a genre synononmous with escapism, I think this book effectively combines both real life problems, with the fairytale quality that SEP is known for. It's not enough for these characters to find love. They need redemption too.

Boy, do we have to work hard for that happy ending...but I found it all the sweeter for the effort.

This was yet another winner by Ms. Phillips. What a GREAT book about a young girl named Honey Jane Moon, who had a tragic life from early childhood but turned it around to work in her favor as she grew into a woman. She is a strong, proud girl with a will of iron, she works hard and makes a big name for herself while trying to find her place in the world. All the way trying to find the love that she has never had in her life. What a fantastic story, it was one of the best stories I have ever read. I loved it, and you will too. It's one of those books that you can't put down, coz you can't wait to see what is going to happen, but you don't want to read it too fast because you don't want it to end!!! One of the best!

i must say that i'm a pretty huge romance novel fan, even though i may be only 15. but in a lot of books characters are left with out development. this is deffinitly not one of those books, because i can seriously say that i had absolutly no idea where the book was going. but Honey Jane Moon is certainly one of those characters that cannot be forgotten, although i had some serious issues with her marrying Dash, mostly because he seemed such a lame character when you compared him with all the other awesome characters in this book, but Eric had such a depth that no one could really know what he would do next. but you couldn't help but fall all over yourself over. but i will warn you that it isn't your average book, it's not quite as light hearted as others but i think if you're tired of the same old characters then give this one a try because it's really hard not to love a woman who basically found hope on a Rollercoaster! i really hope you like it!

Elizabeth Graver, The Honey Thief (Hyperion, 1999)

There is quite a difference between the novel where nothing happens at all and the minimal novel, where small things happen, but due to the lack of bigger things happening around them, the small things take on a significance they would not otherwise normally have. There are far too many examples of the former type to list; Elizabeth Graver's fine novel The Honey Thief is an excellent example of the latter.

Sick of New York City, widowed paralegal Miriam Baruch takes her eleven-year-old daughter Eva out to Finger Lakes country for a bit of rest, relaxation, and rehab; Eva has developed a rather nasty habit of stealing things. Eva develops a relationship with a local beekeeper (that her mother doesn't know about) while her mother is off developing relationships of her own. As the book unfolds, we alternate scenes of present-day life for Eva with her mother's recollections about the decline and untimely death of Eva's father.

Despite the way it sounds, this doesn't set off the dysfunctional-family-novel alarm bells. Being a single parent having trouble coping doesn't necessarily put you into dysfunction territory (far more dysfunctional are those novels where a couple of idiots stay together "for the kids" and end up doing said kids more harm than good; I don't think I need to provide examples here, you've all read a few, no doubt). I'd hate to think readers were feeling reluctant to pick this up because it smacks of the Oprahesque. At its heart, it's a novel about just getting along in life. Questions aren't answered, loose ends abound, people are just plain messy, and the whole thing feels perfectly natural.

You'd think that in the thirty years since the slice-of-life novel came into vogue, it would have gotten boring. Thankfully, this is not the case. There are far more than eight million stories in the naked city, and some of them are told by writers as good as Graver. May their numbers increase. ****

The Honey Thief is a lucid and beautiful novel about how the errors of the past haunt the present and how a widowed wife and daughter deal with bottled up feelings. Do secrets affect relationships and every day life? After eleven-year-old Eva is picked up on her fourth shoplifting charge, her mother, Miriam, decides to move from Manhattan to a quiet town in New York State. Lonely, Eva bonds with a middle-aged beekeeper named Burl. But Eva hasn't felt compelled to tell her mother about her new friend. Also, Miriam has never told Eva about her father's death. She told her he died of a heart attack. But is that the truth? The disturbing and heart-wrenching way her father died could affect Eva's future. As tension mounts between mother and daughter, Miriam wonders if she should open up to her daughter. There are some haunting scenes in this book.

The Honey Thief has beautiful language; it has a rather lyrical feel to it. I have fallen in love with this book; there are few novels about family dilemmas that touch me this way. With compelling characters and exquisite language, The Honey Thief is as sweet and as rich as, well, honey. I highly recommend this title.

...it will manifest itself differently for every person who experiences it. In the case of young Eva - Elizabeth Graver's engagingly and vividly drawn heroine - the manifestations include a love/hate/fear-of-loss relationship with her mother Miriam, general adolescent frustration and mistrust of the world in general, and shoplifting. All of Graver's characters in this wonderful novel are well-drawn and emotionally full - and making them even more believable and compelling is the fact that all of them are very far from perfect.

As if simply passing into adolescence from childhood isn't difficult enough, Eva is coping with the fact that her dad - whom she remembers as the perfect father, but only in briefly-imaged wisps of memory - died when she was only six. Her mother has told her from the time of his death that he suffered a heart attack - which is one of those amazingly widespread half-lies with which we as human beings become all too familiar as we pass through this life. Eva accepts the story on the surface - but something within her tells her that there is more here than is being revealed to her.

Eva and her mother live in New York City at the beginning of the story - a single mom striving valiantly to raise a daughter in a less-than-ideal environment. Her mom's best friend is an Indian woman named Ratha who lives in the apartment on the floor below - and Ratha and Mahesh's daughter Charu is Eva's closest pal. As Eva begins to approach adolescence, she begins to evince troubling behavior - the shoplifting mentioned above, plus a tendency to argue more and more aggressively with Miriam. After several episodes of being caught stealing, Miriam is at her wits' end - and the decision is made that a change of environment might be the best thing for both of them. Pouring over an atlas one evening, they settle on the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York - and they pull up what roots they have acquired and make the move.

Eva is bored stiff living in the country. She knows no other children her age, and the woman hired by her mom to baby-sit her (the fact of which angers Eva even further) is more inclined to sit in a chair and snore the afternoon away than to spend any quality time with her young charge. Eva begins to explore the area on a second-hand bike that her mom buys for her - and she makes an interesting discovery. Cycling down a dusty country road one day, she comes across a card table set up with several jaws of honey - along with a home-made sign indicating a price, and a small lockbox with a slot for payment. Tempted to steal the honey, she holds back at first - then her curiosity gets the better of her, and she sneaks onto the property behind the card table, and discovers a row of beehives.

Eva soon meets Burl, the owner of the property and the hives - one of the gentlest (if flawed - he IS human, after all) characters I've run across in some time. Burl is annoyed at first that his privacy has been breached - but he soon warms to this strange, strong-willed young girl. He senses something about her - he senses her pain, he senses her strength, and he senses her need for a friend.

The unlikely and uncommon friendship that develops between these two is both poignant and sweet - it reminds me a bit of the friendship between young Clara Winter and Georg Kominsky in Alison McGhee's unforgettable novel SHADOW BABY. It's a completely believable, generation-spanning bond that they share - and it's a joy to behold.

Through the course of THE HONEY THIEF, Elizabeth Graver leads the reader through the trials, sorrows and joys of these characters' lives - and down the sometimes rough road of memory. She does so with grace, and with a total respect for these characters - and she shows an understanding for the human spirit, and the pain it can endure, that will touch the readers' hearts.

but he has become engaged to her lovely sister Nancy, who then jilts him. Why would any sane woman leave handsome, steady, totally reliable Allen or reject the opportunity of becoming lady of his manor? 73 year-old Aunt Eddie asks Jendy, who has been living in London, to come back home for a time to try to help sort out the mess. Allen's artistic, younger brother, Roderick, also has returned from living abroad in Spain. Does Roderick understand why Nancy left? Why won't he divulge the truth to Jendy? And why does Roderick allow a thrice-married harpy to invade his every waking hour with her atrocious 8-year-old daughter in tow? And what is Wally the gardener doing prowling around the estate in the dead of night? Find out the answer to all these questions in Honey for Tea...

I really enjoyed this book - which has more than one romance for the reader to relish. Although it is somewhat predictable in places, it saves a surprise for the end. There is a wide variety of characters, who are likeable and entertaining. It has english country charm, a little suspense and some laughs. All in all, great for a light and pleasurable read.