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Introduction to one of the United States' original colonies, Georgia. Describes its origins, its leaders, and the colony's role in America's independence from Great Britain. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Georgia embraced being the girlfriend of a Rock Legend/Luurve God, she thought that was the end of her lovenosity woes. As usual, Georgia is the last to know what she is talking about. Now there's the small matter of a snogging accident involving her matey-type mate Dave the Laugh and some toasted newts in her undercrackers. Can Georgia lock up her red bottom and throw away the key? ... Read more

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Georgia's Hilarious!
Ah. It's Georgia Nicholson, and seriously, who doesn't love her? If she was your neighbor, you'd probably think her family was nuts. If she was your best friend, you'd probably be torn into two sides: one, that you love her dearly, or two, you think she's a psycho and need to cut all ties with her. If she was your girlfriend--well, you probably need a lot a patience to handle her silly yet grooviness. That's Georgia, always making a ruckus wherever she goes, but she will crack you up so badly--even if you have a sore throat and laughing is bad for you, or if you're sitting in the subway with a crowd and all of a sudden, you burst into a fit of giggles and can't stop.

Oy, it's embarrassing, but one must deal if you're ready to tackle a hilarious book like this. The insane display of maniacal laughing in public is seriously worth it, though. But I'll give you one piece of advice: you'll fare much better at the safety of your home, preferably lounged on a soft bean bag chair and munching on a snack. Something dry though--you know how your mother gets when she finds the mess you've left there.

Time to leave Gee all aloney, on her owney?
So...I have the pleasure of saying I was in high school ( a sophomore), when Rennison's hilariously original, "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging" book made its debut. Not only was it one of the first--and only--YA books I'd read, it was also the first book I'd come across with a British protagonist. Anywho, I was an avid reader back then, and I ended up turning almost all of my friends onto the books. We all thought they were funny, smart, and cool--and I can't count how many of us girls started making lists of "why my life sucks." My point is that, I've always been a fan of Rennison's simply because she captures that teenaged angst so well, but wraps it up in the odd, but uber loveable, package of Georgia Nicolson.

However...(yes, there's always a however), even when I was in high school, it was SO obvious that Georgia would eventually end up with Dave the Laugh. I mean, all she ever had in common with Robbie (a.k.a., the Sex God) was snogging. Actually, besides kissing, make-up and increasingly immature antics, there's not much carrying these books along after a while.

I stopped reading them after "Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas" simply because NOTHING happens in the books. Yes, there's panic over boys; Georgia constantly fighting and making up with Jas; little tidbits about Angus and her Gee's crazy home-life, but really...talk about "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Alright, alright, that's a bit harsh--especially since I don't think Rennison nor Georgia are "idiots," but still. This series, after "On the Bright Side...", has turned into a literary version of a puppy mill: basically, an author/publishing house spitting out cute, fluffy products year after year until there's not much left to enjoy.

Yes, these books are 90 percent fluff; there's not much character development on Georgia's part--besides her increasing snogging experience (and her growing nunga-nungas), she's exactly the same character that she was in the first book. Considering her penchant for pursuing and dating the "hot" guy, AND the fact that she's overly obsessed with make-up, you'd think there'd be some realization on her part that she focusing on things that, in the long run, simply don't matter all that much. I mean, for the love of goodness, she's had nigh on NINE books to display some sort of depth or deep thinking. And while I know there's something worthwhile in her character, Rennison doesn't do Georgia much credit by keeping her shallow, immature and smart-mouthed. Yes, she's a teen-ager, but please give me something to care about, as a reader.

Still, I've gotta admit that, while Books 1 and 2 were the funniest of the bunch, Rennison's signature humor remains throughout the rest of the works. Sure, the oddities of her friends and family are engaging, a lot of the time, it's just the same-old, same-old, over and over again, from one book to the next. The other up-side of this book, which precedes the final installment ("Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?"), is that we finally get somewhere (slightly) with the whole Georgia/Dave the Laugh relationship. At last, she's recognizing her preoccupation with him, and the fact that she's genuinely uncomfortable about him and his girlfriend. To be honest, I'm not sure what the big deal is; she clearly doesn't have any relationship/commitment issues, so I'm not sure why she's so adverse to dating Dave--especially since he's said, on more than one occasion, that he likes her and wants to date her.

Ah well, chalk it up to Rennison's attempt(s) to create tension and anticipation in her readers, keeping them faithfully come back year after year, book after book. And, to be honest, it's somewhat worked, for me at least. It's been probably seven years since I first started the "Confessions" series and, now that I work in a book-related field, came across them again and decided to give them another go--mostly because I wanted to find out how Georgia finally ends up with Dave. The problem is that, I started with "Dancing in My Nuddy Pants," and by the time I got to "Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers," I was exhausted all over again. There's something downright disheartening about reading books, having the feeling that something should have happened, and then it all just ends on a WIDE open, utterly frustrating cliffhanger that is a blatant bid to get you to read/buy the next book. Bad form, if you ask me.

My advice to fans who are just starting the series--and who have semi-short attention spans--is to literally just skip the middle four books. Seriously, you won't miss anything big besides Georgia's growing crush on Dave; her break-up with Robbie; her new, Italian Luuurve God, Masimo; and...well, that's pretty much it. Honestly, these books could easily have been condensed into a series of 5 which, considering that it's actually double that amount, is saying a lot.

Anyway, I'm not entirely bashing the books, since I still do intend to read the final installment when I get the chance, but really, that's more out of a desperate need to see some sort of conclusion to the series, than any over-abiding sense of attachment to the characters. Because, in all honesty, I feel as if the series conclusion has been a long time coming, and it's time to leave Georgia all aloney, on her owney, once and for all.

Stick to the first one
Everything that was fun and enjoyable about the first few books in the series has been strongly over-played in the later books. If it got a laugh the first time around, the joke is used over and over. After nine iterations, Georgia's adventures are repetitive and much the same as every other instance.

Good 'show'!
I am actually Cindy, Doug's wife.I don't think that Doug would really be interested in British Schoolgirl Books.Anyway, my daughter and I both loved all nine of Louise Rennison's Confessions of Georgia Nicholson books, and have kept them to read again.I have heard that she is working on a tenth one.Yea!I wrote a letter to my brother that was riddled with silly British Schoolgirl sayings and quotes, and he found these quite hilarious.

Fab and Funny
I read this book in two days.I couldnt put it down.I laughed so hard all throughout the book.I cant wait for the next installment of the ace gang. ... Read more

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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Teaches young readers basic geographic facts about this state, from its location in the southeast to the diverse regions, including farms, swamps, and beaches, that exist within its borders. ... Read more

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Since regaining its independence in 1991, Georgia has faced formidable problems of economic collapse, civil war, separatist conflict, rampant crime, political infighting and human rights abuses. This new book offers basic facts about today's Georgia but provides a detailed historical background of this beautiful, highly cultured country famous for its scholars, theatre and hospitality among other virtues. ... Read more

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First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress.This file includes all four parts dealing with former slaves in Georgia.Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states.In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. This is volume four of that project -- Slave Narratives from Georgia. ... Read more

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Tamara Dragadze provides an unique account of family life inrural Soviet Georgia and shows how rural families adapt theirtraditional ways in response to Soviet policy. ... Read more

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Provides an overview of the state of Georgia, covering its history, geography, government, economy, people, and culture which includes the Creek and Cherokee Native Americans. Includes maps, facts, and a timeline. ... Read more

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Rewritten and newly designed, with full-color maps and illustrations, age-appropriate activites, this series provides readers with a detailed exploration of the colonization of America. Compelling coverage of the people and events that shaped a new nation. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After trying to take Hamburger-a-gogo land, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, British teen Georgia Nicholson returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats. ... Read more

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Whoo!
Even though I skipped 2 books, and read this right after Knocked Out By My Nunga Nungas, so it didn't make much sense. Still lovely though, and if you boy it from Amazon you get a extra CD in the inside cover, with a lovely interview by Miss. Rennison :]

HILARIOUS!
This book is quite possibly the funniest one yet of the Georgia Nicholson series. While Georgia is just getting over Robbie in comes Masimo

Another Great Book in the Series of Georgia Nicholson: And Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
This is a book about Georgia Nicholson, a girl from from England, who travels to America with her bestfriend, Jas, and her family. But Georgia and Jas are really just looking forward to this trip because they're hoping to find Georgia's luuuuuuuuuuurrrrvvvveeeee god, Masimo, while the rest of the family look forward to the clown-car convention.

When it comes down to Georgia seeing Masimo, she'll do anything, and I mean anything. She goes to a dance club to see him and she's wearing shoes that are way too small for her feet because they just went perfectly with her outfit. Even though the night didn't go exactly the way she planned, she sure did learn something from that. It was one of my many favorite chapters in the book.That chapter was especially funny.

And Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers is one of my favorite books. I would recommend this book to the reader's that like to read a variety of books. Seeing that Georgia is from another county, it gives you a different point of view on the book, the way they talk, and the setting. It's truly a great series to read. But on thing i would recommend is that you should read the first 5 books before you read this one. If you skip right to this one, you miss a lot of little things that make up the whole book. Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way. But it's still a fantastic book.

She's maaaaaaaad!
The Georgia Nicolson character IS truly MAAAAAAAAAD and this makes for some really good laughs. Actually, I laughed myself so hard I was literally crying and had to hold my belly. Boy Entrancers is hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing in a long while!

It is what it is - too funny!
Oh, how clever Louise Rennison is. This hilarious novel reminds me a bit of a stand-up comedian's routine with a plot - of sorts. English teenager, Georgia, (the main character) has her own combination of slang and made up alterations of words that take a bit of getting used to at first. But her descriptions of events, friends, her own family, and life in general are so fast, funny, and furious, I could hardly stop laughing. Of course, it's all very silly, and Georgia comes across as perhaps a little to obsessed with snogging boys, or a bit too dim-witted at times, but then maybe not. In any event, if you like novels that are clearly intended to make you laugh, and you aren't looking for any deep messages except that there is always humor to be found in the strange and sometimes unbelieveably wacky things teenagers do, then this book is for you. Highly recommended for kids over 13 and anyone else who enjoys a good laugh. ... Read more

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A colorful, hidden history of the South emerges in this bighearted, imaginative novel about a worldly teacher who turns a segregated, Depression-era small town upside down.

Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Miss Spivey and her project transform the lives of everyone around her: Gladys' older brother Force (with his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs' African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South.

Populated by unforgettable characters -- including three impressive camels -- The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris -- and back again -- in an entrancing feat of storytelling. ... Read more

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A Refreshing Adventure in the South
This story from the South is a smooth blend of history and fiction that captures the reader immediately and does not let go until the chapter titled Finis. Quotes from Shakespeare and the Arabian Nights mix in with colloquial wisdom, and the book, which is skillfully written, will inspire and agitate. Vibrant with color and personality, the characters glide through the chapters like they're riding on a magic carpet. Humor is the key the author uses to open doors, unveiling the roles of women, the Ku Klux Klan, and injustices of the late 1930s era. The stories within the story will provide endless material for book club discussion, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a fresh adventure.

Read Entire Book In Under 24 Hours
... and the last time I did THAT, it was a book about some orphaned young wizard with a funny scar...
READ THIS BOOK.Read it if you love story-telling that holds you till the last page has been turned.Read it if you insist on the characters you read breathing REALITY into the story.Read it if you want the authors you read to use the language like the tool that it is supposed to be, weaving magic with the way they put sentences together.This book IS magic, and this author is now on my list of Must-Reads.If she left novel-writing to start grinding out ads for Madison Avenue, I would read every one of them. I am totally mystified, BTW, that one reviewer claims this "drags a bit"!We cannot have been reading the same book.My only regret?I have finished it.To me, when the reader leaves the book, totally read, with deep sighs of regret, THAT is a heckuva book.

Drags A Bit
This was a decent read, but I don't see myself reading it again or recommending it to my friends. It's told from the viewpoint of an eleven year girl and I found her narrative and thoughts rather charming. Gladys (cause her mother was so happy to see her when she was born!) is growing up in a very small town in Georgia full of pecan trees and white dirt. The year is 1938 so she goes to school in a one room schoolhouse. Tho in an old time setting full of old fashioned people, the new schoolteacher has a lot of new ideas.

Grace, the new teacher, brings with her to Georgia, 1001 Arabian Nights (the book), a chest full of harem girl and camel driver outfits, and ideas that this little podunk town is not ready for. Grace thinks the local African American children should be allowed to attend the "white" school. Thus, on top of throwing costume parties, camel rides, and inspiring a town play and Baghdad Bazaar, Grace turns the town upside down by getting the African American community involved and even going so far as to (much to the superintendent's dismay) have both whites and blacks sit together in the classroom one day.

The KKK, of course, is bound to retaliate. Remember, this is 1938. So while a school play becomes a town play, (I was a bit put off by this. None of the main characters of the play even attend the school.) emotions start running high and feelings of resentment from numerous town folks and students just may lead to a Baghdad Bazaar Disaster.

Three stars because... 1. The Grace/Force issue. (I don't wish to spoil the story by explaining this.) What was the point? I thought it was just gross and fail to see how this particular content of the story contained any meaning or bearing whatsoever. 2. The story got a bit bogged down with the play details. I mean, what materials they used, how they painted, who sewed what, what materials the costumes were.... 3. There was a long part in which someone sits and narrates a story all night long. I just didn't like the story. I felt it went off track and was irrelevant.

All in all, it was an okay read.

Twists you around its finger
Well-spun narrative that begs to be read, chapter after chapter.I regretted putting it down, eager to find out how all of the pieces of Stefaniak's town, Threestep, are put together.The sprightly narrator almost reminded me of a "Scout," and the Arabian landscape brought torural Georgia added mystery and wonder to the whole tale.Highly recommended!

the best kind of surprise
Imagine you accidentally receive a book you would never choose for yourself; the description of the theme, the locale, the characters are simply not for you. Until you open the book and can't put it aside. I usually read in bed to hasten descent into boredom and sleep. But this book of side-splitting laughter, wisdom and sadness, I reserved for wide-awake hours, to be sure not to miss anything. Stepaniak's comic timing is like a good stand-up comic's, yet it's a serious look at our nation's tangled history of racism. It's fun, but it twists the knife in your heart. The characters, none of whom are likely to be familiar to urban dwellers like me, are drawn boldly and lovingly, but without treacly sentimentality. Hurry to read it. ... Read more

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This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in this volume include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia's history.

Though sources for understanding the lives of women in Georgia during the colonial period are scarce, the early essays profile Mary Musgrove, an important player in the relations between the Creek nation and the British Crown, and the loyalist Elizabeth Johnston, who left Georgia for Nova Scotia in 1806. Another essay examines the near-mythical quality of the American Revolution-era accounts of "Georgia's War Woman," Nancy Hart. The later essays are multifaceted in their examination of the way different women experienced Georgia's antebellum social and political life, the tumult of the Civil War, and the lingering consequences of both the conflict itself and Emancipation. After the war, both necessity and opportunity changed women's lives, as educated white women like Eliza Andrews established or taught in schools and as African American women like Lucy Craft Laney, who later founded the Haines Institute, attended school for the first time. Georgia Women also profiles reform-minded women like Mary Latimer McLendon, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Mildred Rutherford, Nellie Peters Black, and Martha Berry, who worked tirelessly for causes ranging from temperance to suffrage to education. The stories of the women portrayed in this volume provide valuable glimpses into the lives and experiences of all Georgia women during the first century and a half of the state's existence. ... Read more

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A tour of Antarctica wildlife is seen through the eyes of three young people whose parents study the bird populations of South Georgia, and among the visited areas are a ghostly whaling station and a penguin beach. ... Read more

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Discusses the cases brought by the Cherokee Nation and its supporters against the state of Georgia beginning in the 1830s to protect the rights of the Cherokee living there. ... Read more

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How come the only book on this subject is a children's book?
So we have an incredibly important Supreme Court case that basically defines the rights of Native Americans living on American soil.And the only book devoted to it is a Children's book?What is that about?

It's a very good children's book, and it's worth a read by historians and kids alike.In fact, you SHOULD buy it for your kids... perhaps when they grow up they will take the initiative to actually write a grown-up book on this subject.

Lovely illustrations, good writing style, and excellent use of sources. ... Read more