Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and are going to visit their cousins Joe and Alice. To the children's delight, Joe and Alice live near a wonderful amusment park. The park holds everuthing the Boxcar Children could ask for- a beautiful merry-go-round, lots of rides and games, all the cotton candy they can eat... and a mystery.

I forget pretty much of this book but I remebered it was the first Boxcar Children book I read and it brought me into liking the Boxcar Children.

Jobes' dictionary is considered a claasic in most college library reference collections. For any student doing research in mythology or interpreting myths this work is a "must have." No library or Mythology professor should be without it.

From start to finish, this collection brings together a vast array of symbolic identity in a highly readable and useable format. It is simply a mythological connection resource that should not be missed.

There were some people think the old firehouse was bad, they want to build the new one. But the Aldens love the firehouse, they try to save it. Can they save the firehouse?

When the Aldens try to save the old Greenfield fire department they get more what they bargained for including damage to the floors and even the puzzling theft of an antique trophy. A blue notebook leads the way to who stole the trophy and will the fire department be saved?

When the Aldens go to the Greenfield Dog School they meet and become friends with a dog and a blind gold. In this story the Boxcar children learn what it is to be blind and the impotance of guide dogs. While doing this they solve a mystery. Watch as the blind girls keen senses help them do something they never done before.

The guide dog mystery is a great way to learn about dogs.

One day a kid name Harry went to his father meat shop after school with his best friend Alex.Harry wasn't a ordaniary boy he was a werewolf.He told his parents he wanted to go to camp with his best friend. But his parent said no because it was a full moon that day and he wold turn into a werewolf.Bot somehow he convinced them and he got to go.At camp Harry was stronger,faster and hairer and human.That nightit was a full moon and everybody was around the campfire telling spooky story.Suddently Harry turned into a werewolf and he destroyed the campfire.

One Day a kid name Harry went to his father meat shop after schoolnwith his best friend Alex.Harry wasn't a ordaniary boy he was a werewolf.He told his parents we wanted to go to camp with his best friend. But his parent said no because it was a full moon that day and he wold turn into a werewolf.Bot somehow he convinced them and he got to go.At camp Harry was stronger,faster and hairer and human.That nightit was a full moon and everybody was around the campfire telling spooky story.Suddently Harry turned into a werewolf and he destroyed the campfire.

I read The Hockey Mystery. I thought it was good because it is a boxcar children mystery and I like mystery books. In the beginning Jessie and her brothers and her sister saw Kevin Reynolds. Kevin Reynolds is going to coach a girl's hockey team. I think kids 5 and up will like it.

The hockey mystery was great because you can learn a bit about hockey and the mystery was a great one.

In my opinion, THE HOME RUN MYSTERY is the Best Boxcar Children book ever written! I won't spoil the book, but it's probably one of the most mysterious one ever. A+

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are taking another trip with their Grandfather, and you know what that means! Another mystery! This time they're involved in a baseball game, playing in a lot that has a story behind it, but time is running out. The lot may soon be changed into a parking lot! What happened to the legendary player Home Run Herman? And how is the opposite team winning the games? Can the Boxcar Children solve these mysteries before it's too late? Enjoy!

Karren Alenier's steady presence at the helm of Word Works is clearly only one of many talents, as I discovered, spellbound, at her Gertrude Stein opera workshop and in reading the moving poems of Looking For Divine Transportation.

"slicing off/ a chunk of time/ like chocolate" Wow! What an image! Her poems are not only full of surprise and insight, but nimble and risky as life itself. I loved the opening quote by Stein "Anything scares me,/ anything scares anyone/ but really after all/ considering how dangerous/ everything is nothing/ is really frightening." Where did that come from?! Christopher Morley's "Life is a foreign/ language; all men/ mispronounce it" is another gem. She bring these intimate and foreign worlds beautifully into focus for us.

Which reminds me, I like her line-breaks and syntax. Both carry meaning in multiple ways and syncopate the music. Also, what a great title, "Soup With Greasy Eyes"! I especially admire the family poems. They're hard to write, so close to the bone, but resonate with the illusive truths that make up our lives. "Mother fades like disappearing/ ink. She doesn't sign her name." Oh! "Prisoner," "Borrowing the Knot," "The Bopper"-powerful and moving poems. As are "How His Fiction Began," "Traveling in Cameron" and especially "Table For Two" with its visual richness and perfectly discovered kinship that runs through the book-"Who are the beggars/ who block the way, argue for a purse? Who/ are the bearded men and dirty-handed/boys? Are they lost/ kin?" (from Ana Marraksia. . .) Yes, for all of us! So. . . I look forward to reading the book again and again,

The images conjured up by the verses of Karren Alenier are as entertaining as they are thoughtful and thought-provoking, a thorough-going tribute to the power of words and word images to move the human heart and pierce the mind's imagination. The Ride: Beggar, farmer, scholar:/our spirits carousel/from one life to the next/the animals--cow/monkey, serpent--rise/and recede in our path/mocking our appetites--/hot dog, cotton candy./The music from the old/organ spills from/the fixed center/still we seek union/our spark, our flirty/two-ness, holding out/for brass.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus according to St. Gertrude. Our Lord chose St. Gertrude to be the Messenger or Herald of Divine Love, and He guided her as she wrote, so that through her He might make known the secrets of His Heart, and thus draw many hearts to Himself. Jesus said to St. Gertrude, "I wish your writings to be for later times a proof of the tenderness of My Heart, and I will make them a source of grace to many souls. While you write, I will keep your heart near to My Heart, and will instill into it, drop by drop, what you are to say." By following these actual words of Our Lord to St. Gertrude in our daily life, a soul will become enriched with incomparable merit, and will be filled, even in this life, with the profound peace and joy which come from loving the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 203pp. PB. Imprimatur.

Just when I thought I knew all the classic spiritual/devotion books this jewel came as a gift to me! It is a must read ranking close to such as "The Story of a Soul," "Introduction to the Devout Life," "Imitation of Christ," et al. May help bring one to know more deeply the Love and Mercy of Jesus whose Heart was pierced for us!

It is a shame that so much of Gertrude Stein's work is dismissed because of its unconventionality. Though sometimes difficult to read, Stein's writing has a lyrical quality about it unparalleled by the work of other writers. The Making of Americans is probably one of her best, and well worth the effort it might take to read it. I found that after only a few pages, I was moved along by the rhythm and cadence that carries the story. A wonderful read!

What starts of as an anecdotal recounting of what I imagine is Stein's forefathers and foremothers immigrant experience launches off into a brilliant, highly intellectual examination and rhapsody of individuality and conformity among other things (like death and consciousness and the battle between the sexes). This book will literally change the way you think you think. I think it should.