Fred HiattReviews

High-schooler Ethan travels across the globe to Hong Kong and beyond to help his friend Tianna find her missing activist father. Their desperate search sheds light on many of the political issues that exist in current U.S-China relations. Epilogue, Background Notes,

A bond between siblings. Older brother learning about the baby, when he crys ,what he needs, a bond between them.

Ages 3-5. Pierce library. This book talks about the bond between siblings. Joey realizes that his little brother screams WAAAH when he's hungry or tired. So Joey talks back to his little brother.

The new baby comes home and the big brother is not sure about them. He has a challenge connecting with them, until one day he start speaking on the babies level, baby talk. He discovers a way to connect with the baby.

Source: Pirece College Library

great book about the complicated process of bringing a new baby home and embracing it.

Ages 3-5. Joey doesn’t understand his new baby brother one bit. One day, he tries to speak the baby’s language and finally connects with his baby brother.

Learning how to deal with a new sibling

In this book, a little boy, named Joey, has a little brother that he has hard time understanding.

Meant to show that the girl has a good heart, with the soft & warm illustrations and the inclusion of the little brother in every wish. But not terribly effective, imo, because there are no larger concerns, no sense of responsibility, no parents, and the big sister actually lets her brother have just enough love to seem like a taunt. Sometimes I might even let him sit next to my throne and pretend to be a king."

Imo, this girl already thinks she's 'all that' and is probably going to be a high-maintenance girlfriend when she gets a little older...."

An enjoyable, edifying, and ultimately passionate book. Nine Days is somewhat misleadingly marketed as a young adult thriller in the spirit of James Patterson. While I have not read any James Patterson, it is hard to believe it is much like this. Nine Days has a good plot that keeps you turning the pages through the short, rapid-fire chapters, as you go from the United States to Hong Kong to Vietnam and back to Hong Kong and the United States.

But the book is really a passionate case for human rights, an argument that individual actions (even by a high school student) can make a difference, and a condemnation of practices like human trafficking. These themes come through increasingly clearly as you read and are made completely manifest when you read the real story it was inspired by (also involving a girl named Ti-Anna, like the heroine of Nine Days) and Fred Hiatt's afterword. In that sense, the books seems to attempt to bait-and-switch young thrill-seeking readers into something that they will really learn from.

I also thought the two main characters were well drawn, Ethan as an earnest American boy and Ti-Anna as a smart, self assured, and consistently optimistic daughter of an exiled Chinese dissident.

Overall, would recommend it for any age.

Joey has a new baby brother and he doesn't understand him one bit. This story tells us something about new born baby. It could help children understand when there is new baby at home.

This isn't the kind of book I generally read, and I'm not sure how much it will get checked out in my library, but I hope it does because it deals with some very important issues. We don't hear too much about political activists in China, or about human trafficking. Both of those issues are dealt with in this book in a way that makes it both exciting to read and also very informative. It made me want to educate myself more on the Chinese Cultural Revolution because I don't know much about it at all. Ethan and Ti-Anna are very likable characters (Ethan's constant need for food is endearing),and while some of the situations they get themselves involved in are a little implausible, it adds tension and interest to the story. I love that the author put the "real" Ti-Anna's story in at the end of the book. All in all I'm really glad I read it and I recommend it.

Based on a true story of 2 teens who go to China to try to rescue one of the main characters father.½

Joey didn't want to do anything with is infant brother because he cries alot. Then one day baby started doing baby talk and then Joey would talk back to him everywhere they went.
AGE:3-5
SOURCE: ECE Library

This beautiful book tells about a family with a new baby in the home.
Source: Pierce College
Ages: 4

Sweet sister and brother story.

REVIEW: This story is about a young girl imagining herself being a queen as her little brother plays along with her.
SOURCE: Pierce College
AGE: 4-5

This is a story about a little girl who day dreams that what would be if she were a queen. She imagines all of the things she could have and even makes her brother one of her royal subjects.

Source: Pierce College library

Ages: 4,5,6

A girl realizes all the things she could have as queen and soon made special accomadations for her brother.

Age: 4, 5, 6
Source: Pierce College Library

A young girl imagines all the wonderful things she could have and do if she were queen of the world and her little brother were her mere subject.
Age: 5-6 years
Source: Pierce County Library

Review: A young girl dreams about being a queen.
Source: Pierce County library
Age: 3-6

A girl with fantasy of being queen of the world. She didn't want her little brother interfering but she soon found accommadations for him in each fantasy of hers.
AGE:4-7
SOURCE: ECE Library

The transition of bringing home a new sibling, the adjustment period and the understanding of what it is to be an older sibling is brought delightfully up in this book. Book Review
3-6 years
Pierce College Library