I am an undergraduate English major with a passion for children's literature and young adult literature (which drives a few of my current professors crazy). What an amazing experience it was to pick up this non-fiction work by Richard Peck that details Peck's own passion for America's youth and his way of reaching out to them through his outstanding (I was already a fan of Peck's work) novels. The work is, as the inside of the dust jacket claims, part "memoir, social commentary, and writing manual." Peck tells how he came to writing young adult literature, he evokes the great need for the books, and he details what and why he has written. The works serves not just as an overview of Peck's work but also of the young adult genre since its inception. There is so much to gain from this work, and you certainly come away from it feeling just what an extraordinary man and writer Richard Peck is, and you feel the extant of the extraordinary accomplishments young adult literature has made and the great need for it to be read by today's youth. Invitation to the World is a work that anyone who will be teaching should read (including non-English teachers), and anyone who may be planning to write children's or young adult literture cannot miss this.

Of the few books I've found that were arranged the way this book is, in a way that topical information is easy to locate, this was by far the most thorough, covering the moving-out process from finding an apartment to setting up finances. It teaches how to live safe, healthy, thrifty, financially sound... if children came with a manual as many parents wish, then this would be part two.

It seems to me that if you are good in managing your life it will carry the idea to be good managers in the company. I think that it is very true.

This is truly a fantastic book, and one which is a joy to read no matter what your level of proficiency with Latin is (though you should have the basics down first, i.e., first-year college Latin or the equivalent). Dr. Lafleur gives you the ultimate in easy-to-use formats: it has running vocabulary and notes on the opposite page from the Latin as well as underneathe it. It also has a Latin glossary in the back, thus making it very, very easy to use. The notes include great comments on grammar, sytlistic points, and rhetorical figures as well as on the sound of the Latin poetry itself (Dr. Lafleur really wants you to pay attention to the auricular beauty of the poetry). This is truly the way Latin texts ought to be taught to students. Too often teachers give students editions of Latin texts without any vocabulary and very little commentary and then wonder why kids lose interest and/or cannot get very far. A possible--and sad--outgrowth of this seems to be that some teachers include a lot of "Latin in translation" in their Latin classes, perhaps out of frustration with students not being able to read enough during the semester? Well, whatever the reason, that wouldn't be necessary if we had more editions like this one. Quite simply, rather than sitting there with grammar books and dictionaries and notes lieing on your desk trying to pick through a Latin text like a mathematical problem (the horror!), you can just lie back with this edition and enjoy Ovid in the original, leaving the translation to the vulgar!

Richard Brightfield is nice enough to include not only the probably basic knowledge of aikido but also East Timor's desire for independence from Indonesia in the book.

It can broaden our minds by making us aware of the oppression in East Timor and learn about the aikido techniques.

When I was young I read this book. I loved all of the forgien lanaguage that was in the book. Also I would like to know if your going to reprint it in the next future or so? From, Christina Breloski P.S. If you do reprint can you send me a note by mail. Here is my address: Christina Breloski 19808 Jolgren Clinton Twp. MI 48038

The lessons are easy to understand. They are broken down into very simple, logical steps. My 11 year old is teaching himself these concepts with little assistance from parents. The tear out pages make it easy for kids and parents on the go.

We use it for enrichment at home during vacations and weekends away from school. He is in an advanced program in sixth grade, so the 7th grade concepts correspond quite well. We should be in the eight grade book by summer.

The price makes it a great deal! I hope they will publish books for high school.

I am sixth grader who is really into math. I think that this book really helped me go ahead. This book did not only help me go ahead, but I also got into advanced math.I have told many of my friends about this book and they have found it helpful as well. I give this book five stars and a two thumbs up.

I'm not really much of a poetry reader, but I read everything in this book at least twice. From the tender poems like "Fueled" to the wonderful irony in "The World is a Beautiful Place" to the sheer morbid wackiness of "Cocaine Lil" there wasn't anything I didn't love. Richard Peck also did a fantastic job on the introduction, and it's almost worth buying the book just to read the introductory pages.

Long after this story joined our vast family collection, our son especially took to the pranks of Milton and Morris, twins who accidentally blow up the ship carrying them from England to New York--and their parents, too.

"It was an accident at sea many years ago" the story begins, following illustrations of the boys sneaking into the ship's hold and lighting some fuses. (Devils!)

They wash up in New York, shuffle from orphanage to orphanage, and finally escape from Rotten's Home for Lost Boys to the circus. Then they, oops, try lifting a pocket watch from a clever old man. He catches them red-handed, and takes them home.

Nathan, it turns out, is a fine tailor. When he dies, they are bereft. But they know tailoring. Dressed as old men, they start selling suits to the fanciest of people.

One day, a delighted Mrs. Guggenheim declares, "You two simply must come with us to meet the Queen." Milton and Morris find themselves in England wowing the court--everyone, that is, except the Queen's gardener and his wife. Yup, you guessed it, their parents.

This story is just plain old fun. Alyssa A. Lappen