Wright on Time: Arizona

"Discover all 50 states with Nadia and Aidan! First stop, Arizona! The Wright's homeschooling RV adventure starts with exploring a desert cave. Nadia can't wait to find minerals and see rock formations. Aidan wants to see bats. He finds something mysterious buried in the rock-what could it be? What was that glowing thing on the wall? Where are those voices coming from? What do you do with toilet paper in a cave? And just what is a stale egg mite anyway?" (excerpt from the back of the book)

Price: $12.99

Put out by: Wright on Time Books

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First, I would like to say thank you to Wright on Time books for allowing me the opportunity to review this book. It is a very well written, educational book. My children, both girls, enjoyed this book immensely. I enjoyed following the Wrights on their many adventures in Arizona. The book is full of interesting facts about the state. I was especially excited about the glossary in the back of the book in addition to the pages of extra facts about Arizona. The addition of those two things made the book even more valuable educationally.

"This is a Mama Buzz review. The product was provided by: Wright on Time books for this review."

Blog Tour, Product/Book Name: Five Star Publications- Girl Talk

Price: $15.95

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Thank you to Five Star Publications for giving me the opportunity to review this book. I found this book to be a very easy read. It is full of practical advice that covers a wide variety of topics. The topics range from "Friend Talk" to "Travel Talk" and a large range in between. It is put together with little snippets from the lives of well-known women such as: Sally Struthers, Lucie Arnaz, Shari Belafonte and Jamie Lee Curtis.
I found some of the advice in the book to be somewhat superficial but over all it was a good book.

Rattlesnake Rules

As soon as this book came in the mail we were very excited to have the opportunity to review it. The colors are vibrant. The pictures catch your attention immediately. We loved the little details in the pictures such as mamas necklace, sisters hairbow, and brothers football. Loved the idea of reinforcing the "rules." A child can relate to that from their own lives of having to obey the rules.
It is always a good idea to educate our kids about different kinds of snakes that can harm them and to give them ways to tell the difference between a harmless snake and a dangerous one. I give this book a big thumbs up for this reason.


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Price: $12.88

*This book was given as a complimentary copy to Mama Buzz Reviewers by Five Star Publications.

The Blue Umbrella

The Blue Umbrella: A Novel

*This book was given as a complimentary copy to Mama Buzz Reviewers by David C. Cook and Mike Mason, for blog tour and promotion purposes.

The Blue Umbrella: retails for $14.99

Ages 9-12
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Free Excerpt of The Blue Umbrella (http://mikemasonbooks.com/2009/09/08/excerpts-Enjoy a free excerpt of this book at Mike Mason's website.


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We were very excited to get this book in the mail and to have the opportunity to review it. My 12 year old daughter loved all of the vivid colors on the cover and could not wait to read it. She read it very quickly. She really didn't get the feel that it was a "Christian" book.
When I read it, I was impressed right off the bat that there was a scripture on the cover page and in the first couple of pages there was a reference to the story "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"; but the book quickly took a turn for me. It reminded of me of A Series of Unfortunate Events." It seemed very Harry Potterish although I was happy that there was no "spell casting". Over all, it is not a book that I would have chosen to buy for my children.

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A very special thank-you to Angie for making this button for me!! Visit her blog at MyFourMonkeys.com. I love the simple elegance of this button!

Patriots Day

Today is Patriots Day. I remember where I was and what I was doing when I saw the terrible tragedy unfold on the Today Show. I usually think the question, "are you sitting down?" is overdramatization. I am not a very dramatic person and can handle all kinds of stress and bad news, but I remember having to sit down for this. This event caused a lot of people to sit down. And more importantly it caused a lot of people to drop to their knees and pray to the God that they haven't talked to in a long time. Someone once said that anything that drives you to the heart of God is a good thing. This is so true.

Patriots Day takes on new meaning for me this year because my son is fighting on a foreign land. He is fighting for our freedom and the freedom of those over there. I am thankful that he is in Iraq now and not when the war first started. I am thankful that he is in Iraq now and not in Afghanistan. Let us never forget all those that have lost their lives in the 9/11 tragedy and all those that have lost their lives fighting for our countries freedoms.

Tax on coupons?

I found a great deal at Kroger! If you buy 3 boxes of Kellogg's cereal, you get a free gallon of milk. The deal is limited to two per visit. I had a lot of Kellogg's cereal coupons, so I estimated my total would be around $12.00 for 6 boxes of cereal and 2 gallons of milk. Not bad.

I had never shopped at Kroger before, so I went there and got my store card. Shopped for my items and was pleased.... Until the cashier rang up the items. Did you know that Kroger charges a tax on coupons? I have never heard of this. I was very pleased with my total of $11.75, so in the grand scheme of things the .21 that I had to pay was nothing to squabble over. But still....Tax on coupons???