My second grader is devoring books these days. She has been reading a number of the "I Can Read Chapter Books". Of these books, this was her favorite. She liked the characters - spunky girl, timid boy, and kind boy that took care of the animals. She is hoping that the Animal Rescue Club will come out with more adventures.

She found the story credible and exciting. She would give this book a thumbs up!

My son picked out this book when he was 2 years old and we were both hooked. Over a year later it is still one of his favorites. Especially good book for vegan children about compassion for wild animals. I always keep a copy on hand to give as a gift.

I used this book to help my Brownie Troop earn a badge. It was a wonderful introduction into discussion of helping animals. The exciting advenutre with its endearing characters is followed by a brief, but effective explanation of what children should and should not attempt with real wild animals. After hearing this story, the girls decided to take on a volunteer project at a local animal shelter. We are waiting for the next adventure of The Animal Rescue Club to see what it inspires.

Strange occurrences and weird adults are nothing new (really) to the 3rd grade of Bailey Elementary School. However, when the thirsty new school counselor shows up with pale skin, pointed teeth and a CAPE, the gang gets nervous. Could this be the famous Dracula come to their school?? He DOES like to sit in the dark in his office and most of the gang thinks their own teacher is a vampire!!

But, would a vampire-especially one as famous and ancient as Dracula himself-drink pink lemonade?? The gang is about to find out!!

This marks the 16th installment in the Bailey School Kids series, and is definitely one of the more creepy books in the series. Having a vampire for a teacher is bad enough, but having TWO in your school is asking for trouble! Especially if one is the most famous vampire in the world with an unquenchable thirst!

Of course, the books are all written with the possibility that the supernatural creatures (vampires, genies, ghosts and even a few aliens and a pirate) could be nothing more than eccentric people. Of course, it's hard to believe it, and that's where the series' appeal comes from.

Like other Bailey Kids books, "Dracula Doesn't..." is a quick read for advanced readers and adults. It is also a very good choice for beginning/intermediate readers who are looking for something silly and fun. A number of reluctant readers have decided that reading actually CAN be fun after picking up one of the books in this series (there's currently over 40 of them, at last count). It isn't necessary to begin with #1 and progress to the end, for each stand easily by themselves, though there are characters that appear in more than one book.

All in all, it's a fun series and as a reading teacher I've found myself hooked on these things and will likely wind up reading (and reviewing) the whole series. Get one yourself and see if you don't enjoy following along with the gang!

If you want a book abuot mystery this is the book for you. It is very funny and interesting. There are some very funny characters and scary ones too. There is a new counselor in town. The kids think he is very scary. I find this book very interesting.
There was a kid so scared of the counseoer he wore a scarf all up arond his neck. Two days later they found the counsler go into Mrs.Jeepers basment.Then the next day at school the principal told the kids the counsler had to leave. Then he said he had to fly. So they know it must mean something. They also remembered that his hands were cold.

Do you like mysteries because you will like this one! The name of the book is Dracula Doesn`t Drink Lemonade. The author is Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. The characters are Liza, Melody, Eddie, Ben, Huey, Howie, Mr.Drake, and Principal Davis. The mystery takes place at Bailey School. Liza and Melody really told Ben to stop fighting with Huey. What partly happens is their principal tells them to go to the nurse's office. Liza and Melody are in shock because Ben is faking he is sick! Do you think Mr.Drake is really a Dracula? Do you think Mr. Drake really pushed Ben? Read the book to find out.

I Liked this book. It was a great Mystery, it was exiting and interesting. If you like Mysteries you should read this book.
It was even funny at some times to. It is a Mystery about Gold. I liked this book because the kids solve the Mystery on the bad guys boat.

Ron Roy can work wonders with his books! The Goose's Gold is the book when Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose go to Florida to visit Ruth Rose's grandmother. Something fishy is going on though. This book is excellent!

I think Goose's Gold is the best book because I like learning about gold.i learned something about gold because of the things the books they got said. I all so like sunken treasure. I like the they find out what Spike and Chip where and how they talked in a code.

It was a great book. Eddie's grandmother has him take piano lessons from a strange man, Lance E. Lott. The place where he takes piano lessons even looks like a castle complete with a round table. Could Mr. Lott really be a knight in shining armor? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out.

I enjoyed this book because it was funny and interesting. This story comes complete with sword fights and jousting matches. Maybe Eddie should have taken flute lessons instead. If you want to find out why you will just have to read the book.

Ryan, age 8

Knights Don't Teach Piano, by Debbie Dodey and Marcia Thornton Jones is from a series, "The Bailey School Kids" series.
My favorite character is Liza because she is very nice. Eddie thinks he is the best at everything but he is not. There is Melody,who is really bossy, and Howie,who is really good at science. If you read this book, it will be the best!

I read Knight's Don't Teach Piano Lessons by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. Knight's Don't Teach Piano Lessons is a very good book. It's about four kids who start to take piano lessons. Their teacher's name is Lance A. Lot. The four kids names are Meloby, Liza, Howie, and Eddie. I liked it because they always find something to find out, and they always have some spying to do.They are funny books. They are like detectives. I recommend this book to peole who kind of like mysteries, ages 8 to 12. There are 30 (including Knight's Don't Teach Piano.)

I bought my Icky Poo in a pack with 2 paddle ropes - the icky poo - and the book. I was 12 at the time and I am now 15, and I looked this up because I lost one paddle rope and the other snapped recently after 3 years of faithful service. The icky poo is just so much fun, even for one so mature as myself. (?)It's like a big, thick, sticky elastic band with a flat head at one end which sticks to paper and adds weight for zapping and zinging. Techniques for these and and other activities based on them are provided in the short book, which is exceptionally funny considering it is supposedly aimed at 6 to 8 year olds and is essentially an instruction manual. It's an entertaining read, anyway, but the games themselves aren't all workable. There are some gems such as paper bag banzai and lunch table poo, but you'd probably be just as well playing with a friend and seeing what games you come up with spontaneously. I can only fault this product by asking what were they thinking when they decided to include only one paddle rope with this edition. You will need 2 for any decent games. and eventually they will lose their "ick" (although you can wash them) and get lost and snapped and suffer the inevitable wear and tear that any good toy does. So why aren't they sold seperately?

Icky Poo is a not just a toy, it is a tool. It has helped unleash the kid in me. Nothing brings more joy into my life than my Icky Poo and my wife. Two essential items to a great relationship. I remember many years ago learning Fly Paper Trash Ball, a game that will reach your inner feelings. My buddy, Cory, and I went in together and bought an Icky Poo Pack. We each got a paddle. Wow, was that fun. I remeber many times running around and around the dorms, in hopes to land an Icky Poo on Cory's Face. What a joy to me. I love Icky Poo.

This book is great for all Icky Poo lovers it comes with a free icky poo toy and it has all the fun facts that you have ever wannted to know about icky poo. I first got my Icky Poo bookm when i was 12 and i have loved icky poo ever since. I dont know what id do without my icky poo. Sure it may sound like a sick title, buyt really once you see the icky poo youll love it so much youll never forget it. If icky poo was never made id probaby die. I think that they should make more and more of them and never stop because one just simply iusnt enough. So please please buy this book it will be a memory youwill cherish forever. You will also crave icky poo just like me when i got my first one. This sticky paddle is the best ever in the whole wide world. So please dont fret buy the icky icky poo poo

Most books on depression focus on the author's pet approach to depression, naturally enough, but that can be frustrating for those of us who figure that there's probably more than one factor contributing to our depression and more than one way to understand and deal with our depression.

"Sacred Sorrows" is a collection of 27 essays by different authors, representing a wide variety of approaches to healing depression (including cognitive therapy, medication, Jungian analysis, nutrition, bodywork) and also a variety of approaches to "embracing" depression--that is, to understanding depression as a meaningful part of our life and spiritual journey.

I especially appreciated Mark Epstein's contribution, "The Medicine Buddha," arguing that medication and Buddhist practice can be combined with integrity. (For those interested in Zen and depression, two other books I'd recommend are Cheri Huber's "The Depression Book" and Philip Martin's "The Zen Path through Depression.")

This is the definitive, readable book on depression that runs the gamut from personal experience of it, to listing medical symptoms, categories and conservative to alternative cures, to embracing the process of it as the spiritual initiation and psychological rebirth that it can be. Each of the many authors who shared either personal experience, knowledge, medical or alternative healing techniques or understanding of the process of depression offer the reader a rich tapestry of information to include concentration camp experience, mid-life depression, substance abuse and depression, treatments of depression from shock to antidepressant medication, medical causes that may bring it on and varied approaches to transforming it as well as understanding its regenerative value. The book has three segments: Living with Depression, Transforming it and Embracing it filled with twenty-seven insightful and often compelling essays by a wide variety of authors. This book will grow your understanding by leaps and bounds of this ailment that not only touches all of us at some point in our lives but is also the USA's third most prevalent medical problem. The book is suberbly informative.

I bought this book for a friend in the hospital who never returned it -- he loved it so much. With excerpts on the experience, nature, degrees, causes, and alternative treatments for depression, this anthology really CAN make a sick person well. I found the chapters on grief extremely helpful. This book revitalized my confidence in the workings of psychotherapy.

I liked the book a little. This book is in a series. There are three
main charicters. There names are Dink, Josh,and Ruth Rose.
Josh and Ruth Rose and brother and sister.
Have you ever got five letters and one of them are emty.
Well Josh got five letters and one of them are emty.

A nice not-too-scary adventure with students heroes solving the puzzle, very impowering for young people. My daughter loves them and as a teacher I recommend this series for my students.

My 9 year old daughter is willing to shut off the TV and ignore her gameboy when I give her one of the books in the A to Z mystery series. Each of these mysteries presents a story that captures the imagination of the 8-10 year old, and provides them with characters that are "cool" while modelling constructive behavior such as problem solving, cooperation, and respect for others. The three heroes of each story, Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose are kids your kid would like as friends. The author is skilled at presenting the mystery in a way that draws kids in. The clues are laid out in a logical way, as the story unfolds. My daughter has rarely guessed the solution before the end of the story, but she "got it" right along with Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose.

I bought this little treasure just to understand the thinking of my ancestors.

Good, fun stuff.

This little book was a standard primer from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century in America. It teaches reading and vocabulary based on Biblical and theological facts. My children love it.

Its theology is reformed theology, with which I am often in disagreement, however it provides an excellent basis for imparting Biblical values while teaching children to read.

For over one hundred years this book has been the basic textbook for new readers in America. Most of America's heros most likely learned to read using this book. Isn't it a shame that today it is against the law to use this textbook because of the quotes from the Bible. All parents should keep a copy of this book in their possession to remind them of the roots by which we have all come!

My name is JonPaul Szybnski . I read the book Trolls Don't Ride Rollar Caosters by Debbie Dadey,and Marcia Jones. This was a great kids book. The main characters n the story are Eddie,Howie,Liza,and Melody. They all go to the carnival and want to ride the new ride called the Monster.It is the biggest and scariest rollar caoster there. The four kids are only elevan or twelve , so there scared. Eddie is the brave kid so hes not as scared ,and liza is very scared she just wants to ride the merry go round.So all four kids ride the rollar coaster ,but then all of a sudden it comes to a complete stop.Liza and Melody are so scared they have to climb down a three story ladder.While they were climbing down they heard these strange luaghs.When they got down they rode the merry go round.Eddie was so boared . When they were done they saw a lady that was on the roller caoster with them.As they wre walking over to the lady Eddie saw a sign that said strongest kid contest.So before hey went to the strange lady Eddie signed up. They walked up to th lady. Liza whispeed to Melody she looks like a toll.How asked the ladies name,she said J.J. A few weeks later they went to the strongest kid contest.They saw J.J. again.she was tying to take down the tent to ruin the contest. Liza stopped her.It was allmost the end of the contest . just Eddie and the kid they called the bully.The Bully swung ,ding .He had the highest score yet.Eddie swung,Ding,Ding . Eddie won the contest.The four kids just figured out what happend to the Monster.

Do trolls ride roller coasters? Find out in this book.

Eddie loves the fair and wants to go on The Monster, a roller coaster. There is someone who hates the noise of The Monster. What is bothering this person?

Everythings noise is going out. The person is selling t-shirts with trolls on them. They look like her. But if J.J (the troll) doesn't have a jewel, then she's bad! The Bailey School Kids have to stop J.J. before the whole world is out of sound!

If you like the Bailey School Kids series our you are just looking for a short and adventerous book, this book definetely is the best. Now, trust me, I have read every single one in this whole series and this one is my favorite. I like other ones as well, and I think that they are all good, but I like this one a little bit more.

I'ts really not so great on my opinion, but I reccomend it. The reason why i'ts not so out of the extrourdinary is because it has some parts that really don't make sense.

I used with a student who was older but it helped her comprehension. She loved this story. It helped her to build her vocabulary, use context clues, and use clues to predict the stories. The author provides a map in the front that provided a great visual reference for my student. We were able to practice mapping skills and do many activities based on the story. It is a good series if children are not ready for the Harry Potter series.

This book is so cool! You should definetely buy it if you have enjoyed the other awesome books in the series~ I like all of them especially the Absent Author that is really neat too! Definetely buy it~