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First published in 1974, Education and the American Indian has been widely praised as the first full-length study of federal Indian policy. This revised edition brings the book up to date through 1998 with the addition of analysis and interpretation of trends and policies that have shaped Indian education in the 1980s and 1990s and will persist into the twenty-first century. In looking ahead, one Yankton Sioux forecasts that within two generations we will see some of the most educated people in the world and they will be on reservations. How such an optimistic assessment might become a reality is one of the major themes of this revised edition. ... Read more

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The day I entered the classroom
for the very first time,
I was floating on a cloud of happiness.

For ten-year-old Dora Cookson, going to school for the first time is a dream come true. After moving from Utah to a homestead in New Mexico, Dora can't wait to start school, to learn, and to make new friends. There's only one problem -- Dora may be as old as the fourth graders, but she has to start in the first grade. Some kids snicker and say it's because she's dumb. But one girl named Cora Beth doesn't think so, and becomes Dora's first friend at school.

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Consumer Advisory -- Anti-Family Author
Author Joy N. Hulme, of Monte Serreno, California, donated $9,677 to support passage of Proposition 8, stripping civil rights from some Californians, and reserving special rights for others. She is anti-family, thus her family oriented writing is suspect.

new kid
Climbing the Rainbow is a great story, and is a really fast read. The story takes place in Utah, which is where Dora Cookson has recently moved to from Mexico City. I really enjoyed this story, because I could relate to it so well. When I was fourteen years old my family moved to Idaho from Colorado, because my grandmother died. My family was the only family my grandfather had left, so we moved here to be with him. It was very hard for me to be a teenager, and move to a new town. Many people were very rude and not open to making friends with me. Dora had the same problem. Cora Beth noticed Dora's pain, and introduced herself. Katherine, who I am still best friends with today, did the same for me as Cora Beth did for Dora. Through this whole book I felt for Dora, because I have been in her shoes. It is hard to make new friends, especially during the teenage years. If you have ever been a new kid, or opened up to a new kid, this book would be great for you to read. You will be able to relate! ... Read more

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A sobering look at the local person's truth, under the tourist view
In the interests of full-disclosure, I don't know author Chellis Glendinning, or anyone quoted or mentioned in this book, _Chiva_, but I took an interest in it when it was first published about five years ago.Like many people, I had read (years before) a Denver Post article about the Chimayo Valley drug problem but in connection with the healing pilgrimage to the Santuario.I probably shook my head about what a shame it was all that trouble in such a lovely valley with its green meadows and gaunt and haunted sand hills and surface appearance of Arcadian bliss.I had long been a student of post-colonial literature, of the effects of empire and imperialism (as regards former British colonies) but I was still largely a surface tourist when in the Taos area.The Labor Day weekend of September 1998, I was--again--a head-over-heels-passionate tourist to the Santuario de Chimayo; on returning home, I saw a news article about the murder that same weekend of one Danny Chavez near the Santuario church.I was shocked that guns and death had hit so close to me.On my next blissful tourist trip through the area, I sought out his grave marker and found it on a side road.That's been over ten years ago; at Christmas 2009, after having read _Chiva_ for the first time, I visited the area again, and passed by the Chavez marker (mentioned in _Chiva_, as I learned).This past holiday season the Chimayo valley from Espanola to Potrero was just as before, keeping its secrets from the passerby.Glendinning's work conveys exactly this combination of shock and tragedy beneath the tourist surface.

Glendinning has the education and comprehensive first-world and "third-world" experience to thoroughly cover all the implications of the topic of drug use in the linked villages of the Chimayo Valley and the global connections.A reviewer of _Chiva_ for December 18, 2008, says the author was on a "rant" and "silly"--both insupportable opinions.Also, that reviewer states that every valley resident who shops at Wal-mart "participates democratically in globalization."Excuse me, but the Dubya Mart has a war room mentality which has been thoroughly documented.When the Dubya Mart beats out all other competitors, no one has a choice.Also, the loss of land, water rights, language, and dignity since 1846 is well documented.Perhaps the 12/18/08 reviewer would write a different review after more research, but as it is, she commits an error in logic when she assumes that wanting the land and water back is the same as going back to "medieval child mortality rates, rank illiteracy, and life expectancies of 40."Taos Pueblo would know something about that, something about wanting the land back without wanting genocide back.

It's difficult to write a brief review about a book that means so much.The primary pleasure of _Chiva_ is Glendinning's way of showing Joaquin's roller coaster ride of post-traumatic stress disorder, and his decline after hopeful scenes.Her tracing of his life journey rings true of all trauma survivors; he is cynical and resigned, and at one point excuses his behavior and lack of healing by saying, "I'm just a drug addict."Having said the above, praising _Chiva_ and defending it from a detractor, I have to say it's not perfect and I wanted it to be.I wanted _Chiva_ to be perfect perhaps because there is no other book on this topic that describes the connections between north-central New Mexico, the international drug trade, and imperial practices like colonization.

Yet, at the risk of sounding like a writing tutor, regarding the broader picture of international drug routes, I'd like to say that I wanted a work of coherent research conveyed in finely-crafted sentences that left no loopholes for criticism.I'm used to absorbing and synthesizing a quantity of research in the form of literary theory, culture studies, and proactive psychotherapy (along the lines of Frattaroli and Covey), but I wish author Glendinning had made the research flow more coherently; a sentence here and there would have helped me to follow the often unwieldy information of how we, the USA, perpetrated drug use as we competed with the USSR for Cold War allies.

Further along the lines of the craft of writing is the use of sentence fragments.Like "Whatever."Like "The inclination."And, even though I can see that the author wanted a conversational style that could actually be read by her audience, people whose reading skills have been kept low (as an effect or affect of colonization), sentence fragments often mirror social fragmentation.The longer, linked sentences suggest social coherence.And, making clearer links between sentences in the sections of complex information would have been a service to her readers.Of course, a scholarly style of writing might have lost her audience, but, on the other hand, also regarding the craft of writing, the author had to adopt a style or voice that she could blend with the very intimate sections with Joaquin Cruz, the Chimayo Valley protagonist.

Okay, if you're still reading this review, there is a nice intertextuality between _Chiva_ and other work.Jimmy Santiago Baca's memoir _A Place to Stand_ is the story that "Joaquin Cruz" could have written if he'd sworn off his addiction to cynicism; Baca shows that to save your culture, you have to start by saving yourself, and to save yourself you have to believe in something even if it's the poetry of Wordsworth and Whitman--two men who, though of the colonizing nations, taught themselves to see.The author mentions Franz Fanon's, _The Wretched of the Earth_, but dozens of works documenting colonization and imperialism have been written since then.A good example of research on the topic of how the USA plays nations off against each other is the book, _Good Muslim, Bad Muslim_ by Mahmood Mamdani.John Nichols' novel, _The Magic Journey_ shows how local Hispanos were forced off their traditional barter system onto a cash and credit economy.

There is a huge task ahead for drug survivors and their families: not only must they save themselves and their culture, they must become teachers.They must teach Anglo-Americans--particularly tourists and real estate developers--about their culture, their land, their identity.Among nortenos--local Anglos and Native Hispano and Puebloan--I've had so many good teachers.What the "dominant culture" fears most is an educated norteno/Hispano.It seems to me, the horrible dilemma for native nortenos is still the same: How do you stop water from flowing uphill toward money?I guess you can't make water flow toward you if you are stoned.So, get sober and fight for what's yours.And Glendinning has a long chapter on what is being done in the Espanola and Chimayo area to heal people and retain their culture.Ah, what heroes she writes about!

Chimayo AND The Smack Trade
I drive through Espanola a few times a year.....I remember hearing about how it was the heroin OD capital of the US...Always wanted to know what the real story was..so I bought the book...It is about 50% Chimayo and it's heroin problem and 50% of the GLOBAL heroin trade...With conspiracies, CIA, rebels, etc. thrown in..The organization is kinda weird...The writing style is kinda weird as well...but, she is a good a good writer.....I really liked the part about Chimayo, the march, The Great Bust of 1999, and the general description of live in Rio Arriba County...The part about the global heroin trade wasn't anything I couldn't get from Wikipedia....Anyone one know where Joaquin is today??I also didn't realize that Chimayo is one of "the most important Catholic pilgrimage center in the United States"....

Complex and brave attempt to cover a huge Hispano canvas, all in 245 pages
One of those small gems of a book, with a sweeping vision for story and plot.Glendinning takes the local travails of a village (and a love affair with a junky) and ties it to the worldwide big business of dope (8 % of the global economy).Chiva is one of the street names for heroin, a Latino slang word, and is used particularly appropriately here, since the book surrounds and embraces Hispaño culture and the village of Chimayo, New Mexico.

Chellis is weakest when she gets into rants about the loss of 1700's farming practices and economies (does she really want to go back to medieval child mortality rates, rank illiteracy, and life expectancies of 40?) and globalization.Sure, no one pretends to like Walmart, but pretending that it's an evil perpetrated by outsiders on us is silly - each Chimayo resident that shops Walmart participates democratically in globalization.Glendinning also has a legitimate but confusing set of views on colonization and the negative impacts of cultural exploitation.She is, after all, a European-American living in a Hispaño farming community as a writer because she likes New Mexico better than her place of origin.It's hard not to be an exploiter when you move into the `hood, but don't actually have to actually be dirt poor, a farmer, and latino.

Her narrative about her lover and nearly married Joaquin rings true, even though she has to fictionalize this complex, flawed man.Evidently, though they shone together like the sun, he never could really explain himself to her - but at least the Joaquin she invented was a true metaphor for the village, and the book.Where she shines is in describing the culture, and in talking about the contradictions of politics, money, and drugs.Where she could legitimately rant about US / Euro policy, she is actually constrained and well researched.The narrative of the number of times our governments have supported the drug trade in order to take on some implacable political foe (Communism, Taliban, right wing or left wing dictatorships, Muslim governments or political movements ...) underscores our hypocrisy without beating us up with it.Surprisingly, Glendinning does not favor legalization of heroin, though the book sets the premise well - she believes we would pay the same money to the global pharmaceutical houses, and that is unacceptable to her.

Characterization: A
Dialogue:B
Plot:B
Use of Language:A
Research and Background:B
Political Balance and Reason: C-

The Really Big Picture
The bibliography and research notes alone justifies the price of the book.The stories of one small town and of 20th Century Globalism are artfully interwoven.Altogether, it's inspiring in a painful, eye-opening sort of way.

Contrary to "About the Author", Chellis Glendinning is a she, not a he.

Well written story
Chiva paints a picture of Chimayó New Mexico, number one per-capita consumer of heroin in the number one per-capita consumer state in the United States. The book also offers a well-researched history of the global heroin trade from past to present. The picture is ugly indeed.

For those advocating legalization (of hard drugs) as the remedy to this problem, I suggest reading this and then asking yourself: is this the kind of country I want to live in? And for those that think the current plan in the war on drugs is working, I have the same suggestion. Quite obviously it is not working and will not cure the problem.

The author points out that at one time heroin was legally introduced to China. The result: over one quarter of the adult population became hopelessly addicted. In Chimayó, the supply was plentiful, with an individual dose costing $15, but anyhing not nailed down was likely to be stolen. Overdoses and shootings were common events. A friend of mine from a barrio full of tecatos in Juarez speaks of the same.

Anywhere heroin has been introduced without control to a population, usage of the drug has increased exponentially. With disastrous consequences.

The writing is good and kept me interested from start to finish. But I think the weakness of the book comes near the end where solutions to the problem are offered. There, you'll find more questions than answers.

I highly recommend Chiva for anyone interested in the drug problem or the region described in the book. ... Read more

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For the past forty years Anne Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result, she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design. She argues persuasively that architects must integrate their design knowledge with an understanding of the developmental needs of learners, while at the same time educators, parents, and students must broaden their awareness of the built, natural, and cultural environment to maximize the learning experience. In other words, schools and other environments can themselves become "three-dimensional textbooks." When architects are cognizant of newer models of education and educators view the environment as more than a box in which to teach prescribed lessons, the result is an informed architecture that enables children to discover the power of their own learning.

The book presents numerous examples of dynamic designs that are the result of interdisciplinary understanding of place. Taylor includes designer perspectives, forums derived from commentary by outside contributors involved in school planning, and a wealth of photographs of thoughtful and effective solutions to create learning environments from comprehensive design criteria.

Because the concept of "school" is enlarged to a community campus, the book also spawns a new model of teaching and learning. This book is essential reading for educators, architects, and community members who are anxious to transform education in America and elsewhere.

"Anne Taylor is the most outstanding educator, leading proponent, and practitioner in the three-dimensional textbook field. Her work is the finest resource available for connecting students (young and old) to their learning environments, and visa versa."--Edward E. Kirkbride, NCARB, REFP

"Before Western man divided the universe into discrete subject matter areas, the order in the universe was (and still is) both interdisciplinary and holistic. The branching of trees, spiraling of shells, meandering of streams, and the radial designs of flowers, for example, represent an analogy of mathematics, biology, and art. The current artificial separation of subject matter is in contrast to the way the world is constructed and the way children perceive it. Architecture and the study of the built, natural, and cultural environment synthesize the world of material things and the world of ideas. Further more, it helps us to realize that we are a part of not apart from the environment. This book is a tool and a gift to designers, educators, and students everywhere to assist them in seeing the meaning behind all that we view and use for living on earth. To know our precious relationship to our surroundings is the intent of this book. In this way, life is a work of art and each of us is an artist."--Anne Taylor ... Read more

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Mrs. Taylor offers here a comprehensive text on the issues relevant to architecture within the education industry. From public to private schools, across various pedagogical schemes, she touches on most every issue at some point. Rich with verifiable data, as well as further sources to reference, I've found this book essential and would highly recommend it as a starting point for any architect involved in designing spaces for youth or learning environments! No other text I've found has been as exhaustive or accurate. ... Read more

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What adult has not temporarily "lost" a child--whether in the mall or on a field trip? What child has never gotten lost? The universal experience will help both children and adults identify with Janda's warm retelling of the finding of Jesus in the temple. In this version, based on a Hispanic folktale, Jesus is just four years old, making his impressions of temple life much more vivid--and his parents' concern much more frantic.

The child soon recognizes that he is not really lost at all, as he is always safe within a loving God's hands. His trust in God is so complete he falls asleep in the temple. When Mary and Joseph finally find him, the priest says that there is wisdom even in his rest: the child sleeps when he is tired and leaves worry to God. In these simple words are profound lessons--that God is responsible for all, that worry is useless, and that we should abandon ourselves to loving Providence. Charming illustrations engage the reader and underscore the book's humanizing portrait of the Holy Family.Appropriate for all denominations, The Lost Child is a treasure for parents, grandparents, and gift-givers. It is perfect for home schools, parochial grade schools, Christian daycare centers, Sunday schools, and CCD classes. For ages 3 to 7. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 608 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 628 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 416 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), published by The Santa Fe New Mexican on July 16, 2008. The length of the article is 771 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Fascinating historical vignette
This story sets the reader inside the mind of 14-year-old Cecilia in a day and place most readers will find unfamiliar.The details of daily life in this rural community are told in a way that make one yearn for that simpler time.But the over-all story of a family big on love and closeness and a young girl determined to find her own way is universal.A very enjoyable book -- loved the proverbs!

Great book for young girls
"Cecilia's Year" is a great story for young girls. Cecilia is a really good role model--her goals are to graduate from high school and get a job to help her family. She loves to read. This book also exposes kids to what life was like on farms when America was a rural country. Full of traditional family values plus lots of Spanish for people who know both languages. Also has a little romance. Young girls ages 11-15 will love it. Great gift.

A young adult novel about the dreams of a Latina girl
Cecilia's Year is a young adult novel about the dreams of a Latina girl living in rural New Mexico. She dreams of traveling far beyond her farm community, to experience high school and a job in the big city she knows through books, yet her mother feels her highest goal in life should be to run a home, cook, sew, and raise children. Written as a tribute to the author's mother, Cecilia's Year explores the tribulations of growing up and determining one's own destiny, in a heartfelt manner sure to resonate with anyone striving to find their place in the world.

Moving story set ...
Moving story set in a small New Mexican farming community during the 1930's in which 14-year-old Cecilia, who's a top student and avid reader, wants to go to high school, college, and work in a city; however, her old-fashioned mother feels that she should prepare herself to run a home. (M) I loved the way the Abrahams wove Cecilia's story into the months of the year, and the sprinkling of Spanish throughout added flavor. Cecilia's family may have been poor financially, but it was rich in love.

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This comprehensive guide contains practical information to help immigrants deal with everyday life in the United States, as well as a basic introduction to the U.S. system of government. It also gives new immigrants tips on how to get involved in their new communities and exercise their rights as citizens or permanent residents. ... Read more

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Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation. Here, Hannah Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, bringing light instead of heat to local and national debates on immigration.

Exploring the larger social forces behind demographic shifts, Gill shows both how North Carolina communities are facing the challenges and opportunities presented by these changes and how migrants experience the economic and social realities of their new lives. Latinos are no longer just visitors to the state but are part of the inevitably changing, long-term makeup of its population. Today, emerging migrant communities and the integration of Latino populations remain salient issues as the U.S. Congress stands on the verge of formulating comprehensive immigration reform for the first time in nearly three decades. Gill makes connections between hometowns and the increasing globalization of people, money, technology, and culture by shedding light on the many diverse North Carolina residents who are highly visible yet, as she shows, invisible at the same time. ... Read more

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The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.

“Little Tree” as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course.

Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his illegal attempts to enter the cash economy. Granma teaches Little Tree the joys of reading and education. But when Little Tree is taken away by whites for schooling, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them and of Little Tree’s perception of the Anglo world and how it differs from the Cherokee Way.

A classic of its era, and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree has now been redesigned for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition. ... Read more

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It Could/Will Change Your Life!!
As our men's book club finished this book, a retired University Provost, said, "I'm a better person for having read this book..."

Strong stuff, yes, but "The Education of Little Tree" is a strong book, a very strong book.And, it is a book that will stay with you a lifetime.

There is all kind of mystery and intrigue about the author, Forrest (Asa) Carter, said to be among the most vile racial segregationists of the 60's.He supposedly wrote Alabama governor George C. Wallace's inaugural speech in which he proclaimed, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever..." Carter supposedly dropped out of the Ku Klux Klan because it wasn't hardline enough and he ran for governor of Alabama in 1970 (Thankfully finishing last!!!)

But the question is this--how could a man whose views were so vile and contemptable write a book so loving, kind, sentimental and wise as "The Education of Little Tree?"

One of the most poignant scenes comes when Little Tree and his Indian grandparents board a bus and are harrassed and ridiculed as they make their way to the back of the bus where Indians and Blacks--non-whites--were supposed to sit. How could a man like Asa Carter was supposed to be write a book, much less a scene, like this?

In the book, Little Tree talks of a "spirit mind" and a "body mind"---that is the only explanation for Asa Carter's ability to write such hate-filled rhetoric then write a book so loving, kind, moving and potentially life changing.

But there is another possibility: Carter's most vile hate-filled days were in the sixties. This book wss written in 1976.Perhaps, he,like George C. Wallace, the man for whom he supposedly wrote speeches, came to realize the error of his ways and changed. Perhaps his spirit mind began to overrule his body mind.

However you see it and no matter what you think or know about Forrest(Asa) Carter),read the book. If it doesn' make you a better person, it will most certainly elevate your mind, heart and spirit to higher things, higher values and higher realms.

Fitting Tribute to Grandparents
A friend of mine said something to me recently about how books find her in certain times of her life ... this book found me. I have no idea how I have it among my book shelves but after finishing this gorgeously written story, I was moved to tears, which doesn't happen very often these days.

This story is about a little five year old boy who lost his parents and went to live with his grandparents. His granpa was part Scots and part Indian. His granma was pure Indian. They both are of Cherokee nation, though it was not of the Nation that they remembered. This is the 1930s and during the roughest years that anyone in our history has experienced. Granpa may not be very literate, but I found his wisdom endearing. I found the descriptions of the mountains to be very poetic and how much nature permeates the stories from the birds chattering to the dogs following Little Tree everywhere. This story is written from a young child's eyes and one cannot help be swept into his story and see the things that are dear to his little heart.

This is probably the first book where I laughed and cried ... it's a moving tribute to his grandparents and to his Cherokee heritage. It is also a disturbing look into our past where people condemn those that don't think the same way nor worship the same as savages. I get the sense from reading this book that perhaps those who are doing the condemning are really the savages. I also did not appreciate the heartlessness of the authorities in removing Little Tree from his grandparents' care because they think they know better and the whipping? A horrible reminder of our past, that's for sure.

The love Carter has for his grandparents shine throughout the entire book. This is definitely a book that I would call a tribute. A tribute to his grandparents ... they took in an orphaned little boy and introduced him to a way of life that he would have never known because the Cherokee way of living is not common knowledge these days. I would definitely recommend this book to all serious readers. It is a gem to be treasured.

9/10/10

Education for a Senior Citizen
The book was recommended to me by a Bible Study teacher.I was almost incapable of putting it down until I finished.For a lot of people over 70 years of age, it is a review of their early childhood.I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Great Read for 'tweeners'
This was a very easy read that offers a lot of insight
into the Indian ways, culture. I think it would be a
great book for classroom discussion for students from
5th-7th grade.

THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE
I purchased this book as a gift to my sister.
We had both read the book & loved it.
A wonderful book for all ages, we are in our 70's. ... Read more