just finished reading The Endless Steppe, which is also in the collection, and I heartily recommend it to people from upper elementary grades to adults. It covers an aspect of World War II that I never knew about-- the deportation of Poles, Jews and non-Jews alike, by the Soviets to Siberia in 1941, and their lives there. It is autobiographical, and the author writes in the first person. She was 10 when her family was sent to Siberia not for being Jewish but because her father was, according to the Soviets, a capitalist, and she lived there until she was repatriated in 1946. I think young people particularly should read this book, because it will help them to appreciate the amenities they have, even if they don't have everything they want, or everything the other kids have. Somehow I missed this book when my children were growing up. Fortunately, I did find and they did read The Summer of My German Soldier and Manzanar. I myself did not know about the Japanese internment until I was a graduate student and was working on the play Teahouse of the August Moon; many of the cast members had come to Minnesota because of the internment. And I didn't know we had german prisoner-of-war camps in this country until The Summer of My German Soldier. Now I have another question. When I've checked some of the titles in the collection, I see there's a category called Average customer rating. I've only seen one book that had anything --The Giver, which had 5 stars. Is it only members who can rate the books? I assume the rating is for content and not for the scanning-and-validating job on the book. Cindy __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.