Honesty and Other Stories is a fantastic book that aims to teach important values to kids today. It's filled with captivating tales that emphasize the importance of honesty and other core values. Each story is designed to engage young readers and help them understand the values. With its relatable characters and meaningful lessons, this book is a must-read for children who want to learn important values.

The Value of Coconut Macaroons & Other Stories is a quick read with a deep message. It is the story of an educator's journey in the academic field, but it is much more. It is the story of learners of all ages, from youngsters in middle school, to a grandmother who fulfills her dream of earning a high school diploma. It reaches into the hearts of the individuals presented in the stories and shows the real people, not just how one might perceive them to be. The people featured in The Value of Coconut Macaroons are from diverse backgrounds, who teach the life lessons of resilience, compassion, generosity and caring through their relationships with one another. It is a multiculutural book based on learning, loving and growing together as a human family. This book isn't just for educators; it appeals to all, because it is a story of people. It is unforgettable and will provide new meaning every time you read, and reread, the stories.

The author, on the one hand, has written simple yet thoughtprovoking stories about minor turbulences in the work-life balance of working women, and on the other, has given a heartrending account of those who had to sacrifice their personal needs and aspirations for the sake of others. An empathetic connection with those, who are physically challenged, has been established in two of the stories. Some stories, written in the backdrop of the lives of civil servants, make an interesting and informative reading. ************* Poor girl was swinging in the pendulum of hope and expectations on one end to disappointments and rejections on the other. It seemed nobody cared for her feelings. She was unable to gauge her own mother’s intentions. I, as an outsider, felt that there were some selfish and ulterior motives behind the seemingly genuine failures of the sincere attempts to get her married. ************* They do not know how zebra is different from a giraffe. They have not seen the hues of nature. How green is the green of the leaves and what it is like when the leaves turn yellow in autumn! They have not seen the radiance of the rising sun or the glow of the full moon. They have not experienced the pleasure of seeing the gigantic mountains or the vast oceans or the meandering clouds.

This is a captivating collection of short stories by Frances Elizabeth Barrow, a 19th-century American children's writer who wrote under the pen name Aunt Fanny. Contents include: A Letter From Aunt Fanny The Doll's Wedding What Came of Gipsying The Child Heroine Aunt Mary Little Peter The Story Told to Willie

In 'Beatrice Boville and Other Stories', we are introduced to a wide array of characters through a series of short stories told through the pen of Ouida. Some of the included titles are: 'Slander and Sillery', 'Our Country Quarters', 'Beatrice Boville', and 'Sir Galahad's Raid'.