This is a great book to read when you're on vacation or at the beach. It's the story of 3 sisters Alice, Allegra, and Edith (aka Minnow) who are reluctant to leave their summer house when their parents vacation plans are suddenly changed. Rather than spend a week with their boring and strict aunt, they concoct a plan which will allow them to stay behind without their parents. As Allegra puts it "We'll be on the island and we won't have a worry in the world!" But their plan goes awry and they find themselves facing dilemma after dilemma: sprained ankles, sunburns, murdering thieves (not really) and NO food. Some parents may worry about the ideas sent by of three young girls living for a week without adult supervision. Not to mention there's a lot of skinny dipping. But if you're going to oppose the book on those grounds, you may as well tell people to burn copies of "Pippi Longstocking". The book is well written with a definitively humorous tone. The characters are very real and well portrayed. Overall the story is charming and witty and exciting. If you like it you may want to read Lindbergh's 'Pinapple Place' books, though I think this book outshines them.

Anne Lindbergh shines! A great book

Truely beauitful! It made me cherish my own mother more. I kept my pen handy to highlight throughout the book to share lines with family and friends who are the closest to me.

Bailey Bond is a grumpy twelve-year old who is being forced to stay with his cousins, who hate him. He spys on them, and says mean things about Carl and Anna, and gets Ingrid into hysterics, but when the magic begins to work, Bailey Bond is the master. None of the other children can work it. But while the magic is lots of fun, it has ups and downs, and it turns into one hilarious adventure after another as the four children look for Fox, Bailey's lost dog.

History and biography readers will enjoy this, there's even something for the gardener.This collection of diaries covers the few years before World War II when the Lindberghs moved to a home called Longbarn in England (and then to a home in France). She writes about their flying travels to Germany, Italy, France and India while based in England. She describes the plants and flowers at their home along with the landscapes of their travels. The personal political views and conversations of the time include a trip to Germany so Charles Lingbergh can evaluate Germany's aviation capability to "social events" with the King and Queen of England, Lord and Lady Astor and the Kennedy's.

Jerimiah is mad when Pineapple Place moves to Athens, Conneticut. When he meets Ruby things start to change. Even though the People of Pineapple Place are invisible, they become friends and they have many adventures.

I really enjoyed this book, as it offers Anne Morrow Lindbergh's perspective on her life and her husband's life during the tumultuous pre-WWII years. Charles Lindbergh took his family to live in England after the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles and Anne's first son. But even after the trial, the Lindberghs were harassed and they feared for their son, Jon's, safety. In England, for the first time in their married life, they had a home of their own and privacy. They also travelled extensively and this book tells of their impressions of Hitler's Germany, among other places. To read now what Anne and Charles thought of Germany is enlightening, especially when considering Charles Lindbergh's public speeches trying to keep America out of the war. The Lindberghs moved from England to an island off the coast of France for a time and Anne's descriptions of living in such an environment with an infant and unpredictable conditions is fascinating. Anne also writes about many well-known people of the period, such as Alexis Carrel, Lady Astor, Gertrude Stein, Hitler, and others. I would highly recommend this book.

As an English teacher, I found this book to be humorous and educational! Lindbergh succeeds in teaching children to use numerous literary elements, including foreshadowing and flashback. The main character, Garet, writes in a wonderfully satirical tone that leaves kids and adults hysterical! The plot can be confusing at times, and my students appreciated it most when they read it in pairs or small groups so that they could discuss the plot! I have yet to hear a negative review of the book! :-)

My dad purchased "Three Lives to Live" for me when I was nine. I didn't want it. But somehow, I ended up reading it anyway. And I read it over and over and over for the next 4 years. The story is totally original and the telling is very fresh. I really fell in love with that book. Whenever I was feeling down, I'd pick it up and read it because it would always make me feel better. I've recommended this book to many friends over the years and I haven't found one who didn't enjoy this. Great book.

'Three lives to live' is a book I read a couple years ago and I loved it. Time traveling fasicnates me and I could understand Garet while she was writing her autobiography because I go through some of the same things she does with her english teacher and trying to write stories.

This attempt to extend a masterpiece of poetic philosophizing on matters a woman ponders at mid-life is a whiney and disappointing series of personal complaints in the self-congratulatory self-pity mode followed by trite self-help suggestions at the end of each chapter.

This is a wonderful midlife (or early life) book for women! Is it available in French?

Anne Johnson has given the reader a great gift. This book is an excellent companion for the journaling soul. Written with a warm, insightful and sensitive voice, not unlike Lindbergh's in Gift From the Sea.

I think this was a great book! I am fourteen years old and I can totally relate to this book. It contains your average teenagers problems and conflicts like: family problems, violence, and most important to me, love. What makes it so interesting and eerie, is when Bunny and Jericho surprisingly wind up in the future of where they are currently living. How? Read the book! At first, I chose this book because I liked this guy named Nick, but i really enjoyed it, and I am so glad I chose it.

Doesn't live up to her other books but still very good.

At an alternative school run by his father, Jericho meets a boy from the future. It seems that Nick has traveled through time and come through a wall in the building. Jericho and some of his schoolmates have a remarkable adventure through time, while his best friend Alison tries to evade going to charm school. The narration is hysterically funny, but the story has some weak points and this book is not quite up to par with Lindbergh's other writing.