Booklist seems to say it all; frankly, the text wanders from room to room like J.T. looking for trouble. The illustrations are knock-out quality, however, and almost make up for the rest of the book. I'm not sure what Ms. Pegram was looking for, but the characters in the book are far from sympathetic.

I try to approach books from several aspects, from redeeming qualities to post-partum "dialogue-ability" with the kids. The former isn't really fulfilled, by my best guesses, but there is plenty to discuss with the kids such as how they would react if they had to put up with a brother like J.T.; this is usually followed up with, "Guess what? You WERE a J.T. when you were little!"

I would really like to read more by Ms. Pegram; in the meantime, "Daughter's Day Blues" was a bit of a downer.

I thought Ms. Pegram, caught an innocence that is not often found in children today. After seeing so much disfunction, Phyllis, brings a refreshing constructive energy, recapturing the child we all long to see. I also appreciated how the young characters were able to display wholesome sibling love, yet stress the need for parents to love each child as an individual. The pictorials are excellent. I especially enjoyed how Phyllis and JT's face was brought to life. What a great story for any age group. Every family will enjoy this book, and everyone could use there own special day, just like Phyllis in Daughter's Day Blues.

Steven's Twin was a good book.It show's why it is wrong to lie.You should always be honest,even if that means getting in trouble.In this book,Steven does something wrong that gets him into a lot of trouble.He shouldn't have lied in the first place,just for a free ice-cream sundae.It was very hard pretending to have a twin,and it caused a lot of trouble.

What happens when you pretend to have a twin and suddenly the newspaper comes to report on your family and your "twin"? Find out in this book. Trying to fake a twin is harder then it looks. When the real Bob shows up the laughes continue. Read this! It is great.

Andy believes UFOs, so his friends teased him. But I want to become a friend with Andy. If I'm a Andy's friend, I want to listen about UFOs and aliens.

This book is very interesting. It shows how Elizabeth feels about being a rat. She has much trouble deciding what to do. Elizabeth the Tattletale is a very well written book, and I think that all Sweet Valley Kids readers would love it. It is also good for second to third grade readers.

As Chinese herbal therapy is an extremely extensive and complicated discipline, every well-informed work on this field, therefore, is beneficial. Despite certain imperfections, this enumeration is one of them. The work began as a list of Chinese medicines for quick reference to meet personal needs. Everyone engaged in Chinese pharmacology, or Chinese medicine in general, knows to what dimensions such a primary "quick reference work" can expand. Neither this book is any exception. Without any doubt the amount of labour devoted to its preparation had to be enormous. It supplies people in science and medicine with an amount of about 2000 names of medical drugs used in Chinese medicine. Nevertheless, we can find in the work some mistakes, which seem to be a certain blemish on its beauty. They can be divided into several groups: 1. Minor faults of a technical nature. They concern some dropouts in succession of headword numbering. Thus the item 0063 is followed by 0065, 0432 follows the item 0430, 0483 follows 0481, 0557 follows 0555, 1098 follows 1096 and No. 1960 is entered instead of 1690. 2. Incorrect transcription. For instance the character "pei" (north) is transcribed as "pai" (0021a, 0076) or as „p'i" somewhere (1002, 1003). The character „shu" in the names of herbs as pai-chu, must be pronounced and transcribed as „chu" (0306, 0742, 0862, 0925, 1010, and many others). Character „chieh" is transcribed here as „chiai" (0099, 1486), characters „yu" (oil) as well as „yü" (jadeite) are transcribed with the same syllable „yu" (0013, 1872). Instead of „Mai-t'ou-ts'ao" (0398) there must be Hei-t'ou-ts'ao; „Liang-hsien, Wei-liang-hsien" (0737) correctly has to be Ling-hsien, Wei-ling-hsien and so on. 3. From the practical point of view, a lack of unity even confused arrangement as to the structure of items seems to be more serious mistake. The basic structure of an article has to be - as it is explained in Introduction by author - as follows: The article represents the major name of a medical drug; synonyms, alternative names, are placed in the parentheses behind the major name; minor names, names of other parts of plant also used as drugs, are the second level minor items. In fact, we meet with many variations of this notified model, which relates a substantial part of articles: 3.1. Synonyms. a) Though some of alternative names are placed in parentheses behind the major name, a great number of them is entered in other place as headword. At the same time there is no appearance of explicit key, why was some chosen as the headword and the other was not. b) If the alternative name is entered as a headword, by rights there should to be a cross-reference to the paragraph-major name. This procedure is kept in several items, nevertheless the feedback cross-reference fails in majority of articles (0006 versus 2007, 0099 v. 0964, 0321 v. 0824). In some cases, even the original major name is in parentheses behind this new item, considering that it conversely takes the position of the alternative name (0642 v. 1060, 1057 v. 1998 and so on). c) If there is a cross-reference, it is written in various forms and it is not quite clear if this heterogeneity may have any distinctive function: 0096 Chia-p'i(see Wu-chia-p'i), 0398 Han-lien-ts'aoSee 0886, 0401 Hei-ch'ouSee Êrh-ch'ou, 0873 Mêng-shih=Ch'ing mêng-shih 3.2. Terms in the parentheses. The synonyms of the drug's major name should be placed in the parentheses. Unfortunately, this presumption is often not valid and we can meet with the following cases: a) The name in the parentheses is the name, or names respectively, of drugs obtained from other parts of the plant. A great many instances of this kind occur. For instance 1553 "Ti-yang-ch'üeh (Pai-mai-kên)"; Ti-yang-ch'üeh is the aerial part of Lotus corniculatus, still Pai-mai-kên is the name used for the root of the same herb. Then the pharmaceutical name Herba Loti, concerning the whole article, is also not quite correct, because that for Pai-mai-kên is Radix Loti. b) In the parentheses, instead of alternative name of the drug there is a name of the herb which the drug originates from. For instance 0312 "Ch'ung-wei-tzu (Ch'ung-wei, I-mu-ts'ao)"; the item Ch'ung-wei-tzu is the name of Leonurus artemisia's seed, Ch'ung-wei as well as I-mu-ts'ao are names of the plant or its herb. 3.3. Minor items. The situation here is rather confused, too. We can observe this state of affairs: a) Minor items represent the names of other species of the plant the drug originates from (0917, 1484, 1525, 1622, 1716, 1748 etc.). b) Minor items at the same time represent a mixture of the names of species as well as those of other parts of the plant used as drugs (0599). c) Minor items are the names of forms of the drug prepared in different way (0786). d) Some of minor items have no index, while others are indexed with letters -a, -b, -c etc. (0222, 0324, 0702, 0786, 0917, 1051, 1254, 1525 and many others). The meaning of this double indication is not clear. 3.4. Many of major items are indexed with a capital letter "A" behind the number: 0103A (0216, 0260, 0297, 0398 and so on). In the book no explanation is given for the purpose of this form of entry. If we take in account that the Enumeration had been developing in the second half of the 70s, when there existed incomparably less systematic literature from this branch than today, one cannot term the work devoted to it - the identification of Chinese, English and Latin names etc. - anything other than heroic. Nevertheless, in accounting the prospective next edition of the book, it would be appropriate to consider carefully how to rearrange the text and put the items more precisely and systematically. (The complete review is published in Archív Orientální, 68, (2000), No. 2, Prague)

The girls were way to immature, and conceited. They shoud have been nicer. They were insensetive to their friends

Jessica's Jumbo Fish is an excellent book for people who like sweet valley. I wouldn't recomend it for people who put books down easily. But it's good fora sweet valley book that's not your first, because you might get the wrong impression. That's my recomendation, and I hope you stick to it!

I am a fourth grade teacher in California where the social studies curriculum centers on the study of California. I was attracted to the book because of its multicultural theme and beautiful illustrations. I used it as a read aloud in class with some heavily guided discussion where the book falls off. It needs some expansion on why these two girls and their families might have been seen as outsiders in the town. The solution seems to come a little too easily to these minority girls in an era where prejudice and discrimination ruled the mining towns. It did envoke a good discussion amongst my students about the likelihood of such a conclusion. The book did a good job of showing certain mining techniques and vocabulary which reinforces our curriculum nicely. I recommend using it class, but just steer the conversation towards the weaknesses in the book to be really effective.

Lila will do anything not to go to the party, but finnaly she gose .She brings a bag that no one know whats inside. Later in the night the twins find here crying. Why is she crying and what is in the bag? I liked this book because it showed how true friends are there for you.

This is a story about a little girl how overcame obstacles by following her dreams and the advice of her mother.