From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! U R 2 Good2 B 4-Got-10Karen’s class is having Secret Valentines. Hiding notes and gifts for a Secret Valentine will be fin. but then Karen picks Pamela as her Valentine. ugh. Pamela is Karen’s best enemy. Karen decides to be nice to Pamela anyway. But then Pamela gets some mean notes. And Karen did not write them. Suddenly there are a lot of Valentine mix-ups. What is going on with the Secret Valentines?

In Ms. Colman's Secret Valentine project, the identities of everyone's secret pal are revealed, but a big--and very secret--mixup causes mass confusion.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Karen + Ricky = LoveAt first, Karen and Ricky were enemies. But now they like each other. They are even going to get married. Only now Karen and Ricky are in a big fight! First Karen puts gum in Ricky’s desk. Then Ricky calls Karen Four-eyes. Will Karen and Ricky make up... or break up?

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Write on!Everybody in the big house is busy. And Karen is b-o-r-e-d. She tries to read a book. But then she has a better idea! She will write her own book! It will be about her life. She does not remember everything about being little. So she talks with Mommy and Daddy. They tell Karen all the funny things she did. Can Karen write a whole book?

A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world’s iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl’s Matilda to insights on motherhood in the ancient world and the contemporary stigmatization of single mothers, Jacqueline Rose delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. Mothers is an incisive, rousing call to action from one of our most important contemporary thinkers.

It is well known that Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) has been less impressive. Some scholars have attributed the difference to better infrastructure and greater access to education in Japan’s colonies. Anne Booth examines and critiques such arguments in this ambitious comparative study of economic development in East and Southeast Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1960s. Booth takes an in-depth look at the nature and consequences of colonial policies for a wide range of factors, including the growth of export-oriented agriculture and the development of manufacturing industry. She evaluates the impact of colonial policies on the growth and diversification of the market economy and on the welfare of indigenous populations. Indicators such as educational enrollments, infant mortality rates, and crude death rates are used to compare living standards across East and Southeast Asia in the 1930s. Her analysis of the impact that Japan’s Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and later invasion and conquest had on the region and the living standards of its people leads to a discussion of the painful and protracted transition to independence following Japan’s defeat. Throughout Booth emphasizes the great variety of economic and social policies pursued by the various colonial governments and the diversity of outcomes. Lucidly and accessibly written, Colonial Legacies offers a balanced and elegantly nuanced exploration of a complex historical reality. It will be a lasting contribution to scholarship on the modern economic history of East and Southeast Asia and of special interest to those concerned with the dynamics of development and the history of colonial regimes.

Presents a guide to planning the perfect party, with tips and ideas for party themes and decorations, including an elephant baby shower, a circus train birthday party, and a hot air balloon party.