Book Review: Millie Moo

Product Name: Millie Moo by Camilla Moody
Submitted by: Rachel Logan; Richmond, VA
Rating: 10
Where to buy:  Amazon.com
Description:  The Millie Moo book by Camilla Moody is a Search and Find book as well as a Touch and Feel book. Millie Moo is a cow that is searching for her farmyard friends.
Review:  My son got this book for [...]

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Book Review: Home Learning Year by Year

Product Name: Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Home School Curriculum from Preschool through High School
Reviewed by: Jen Thomas; Denver, CORating: 10Where to buy: Amazon.com
Description: The best guide I have found to help with a curriculum for home schooling your children. Rebecca Rupp who is an expert in the art of home [...]

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Nancy Drew: The Clue of the Broken Locket

Book Name: The Clue of the Broken LocketSubmitted by: Kendall (12 yrs old)Rating: 8Where to buy: Amazon.com
Description: This is the 11th book in the original Nancy Drew series. Nancy Drew is an 18-yr-old detective. Her father is a lawyer. She has two best friends, Bess and George, who are cousins that often help Nancy solve [...]

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Chicken Soup for the Soul

Many of you may have already read this book when it first came out. It is still one of the top selling books today. Chicken Soup for the Soul is a collection of 101 stories based on the belief that true testimonies of goodness and loving transformations can nourish us to the bone and heal [...]

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The South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet has sold millions of copies and was founded by Dr. Agatston while working on a diet for his heart patients in the mid 1990s.
The diet is based around eating the right type of carbohydrates and good fats rather than bad fats. However, the diet advices you cut out all carbs and [...]

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Book Review – New Clothes for New Year’s Day

Check out the latest book review by our contributing humorist and reviewer, Lisa Barker of JellyMom.com:
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New Clothes for New Year’s Day (Ages 4-8) ***
<a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933605294?ie=UTF8&tag=momsnichecom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933605294″ tag=”momsnichecom-20&linkCode=” creativeasin=”1933605294Author: Hyun-Joo Bae
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers (March 2007)
ISBN: 1933605294
Reviewed by: Lisa Barker of JellyMom.com

Review: I [...]

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Book Review – Who Likes the Snow?

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Stuff To Hold Your Stuff – a Review

Lisa Barker of jellymom.com, a friend and contributing writer to Mom’s Niche News – our biweekly newsletter – has graciously sent me a book review for the 9-12 “tween” age group. Read on…
Rating: ** (Highly Recommended)Title: Stuff To Hold Your Stuff by Ellen WarwickIllustrated by Bernice Lum.Reading level: Ages 9-12Spiral-bound: 80 pagesPublisher: Kids Can PressISBN: [...]

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