An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Markets (Reuters Financial Training Series)

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The Reuters Financial Training Series An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Markets A new concept in financial education training, An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Market is guides novices through the intricacies of the world's wealthiest capital exchange markets. This book sets out to give a clear understanding of how and why these markets function, and explains the associated jargon. Readers will be able to take a more detailed look at Money Market and Foreign Exchange instruments and will be able to examine, in particular, the parameters which must be defined in order to place a value on these instruments, together with basic valuation techniques. Key features include:
* Introductory sections defining terms and giving background to theories
* Examples and calculations of various types of foreign exchange and money market transactions and instruments
* Summaries and overviews at the end of each chapter recapitulating key points and definitions
* Quick quiz questions and answers to reinforce learning
* Further resources which point to other books, articles and internet tools to widen readers' comprehension and entrench their foundation in the subject.
Each book in the series is supported by the Wiley-Reuters Financial Training web site (www.wiley-rft.reuters.com). This regularly updated site offers a range of screens taken directly from the Reuters terminal, information on professional exams, web links to key institutional finance web sites and much more. This book will be of particular interest to novice traders, investors and trainers in financial institutions looking for a key introductory text. Endorsed by ACI Education, the educational arm of ACI - The Financial Markets Association, the book provides a comprehensive study for anyone and everyone involved in Foreign Exchange and Money Markets.

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Pithecanthropus.......2001-09-10

The book contains a wealth of practical information however there are errors in the mathematical formulas, dates and etc. This is most frustrating from a reader point of view and dampened the confidence in the material presented. However, it is relatively a easy read for general understanding of the money and FX markets. I hope the author does a more thorough check in the future edition in order to do this book justice.

Excellent practical book for the beginners.......2000-10-02

This is a great practical book for the beginners and intermediate people in the market. When I started in the market as a business analyst, with no prior experience, it was a confused world of trading. After reading this book, things make much more sense. In addition, the book explains brief analytics on how to price and when and why certain instruments will be used for trading. It is geared towards trading. Refer to other books if you are more interested in middle/back office functionality (like settlements, P&L calc, risk management etc.)

Great help for trainers.......2000-07-26

Many a times, trainers in the banking industry find it very difficult to teach complex subjects like foreign exchange and money markets to relatively junior guys. This book will prove to be of great help to those trainers. Probably the first ever attempt in this subject.( Luca's text book can easily be replaced by this book just because of its excellant padagogy). Hope other titles advertised by RFT will also become available soon, specially the one on Risk Management.

Not recommended for anyone who has previous experience.......1999-08-12

If you have some experience of foreign exchange trading, this book is not for yourself. You would learn everything written here within the first six weeks of your job as a foreign exchange trader.

However, this book is great for the REAL beginners who want to learn about foreign exchange from the very beginning and for trainers or teachers who teach those who has little knowledge the foreign exchange. This book starts from explaining what bids and asks are and explains so far up to the mechanics of foreign exchange derivatives. The most remarkable feature of this book is illustrations of deal components and market segments showing how each deal components and markets are related to each other. Detail explanation on different market conventions applied to different currencies is also useful. Short questions at end of chapters are good to review what you should take away from the chapters.

Excellent Book.......1999-07-09

This book is excellent for beginner as well as for advance. It covers all the details right from bottom to top in a very lucid language. It also covers enough diagrams that explains the subject very well.

Introduction to Futures and Options Markets (3rd Edition)

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Must have for anyone interested on Derivatives
The best nontechnical introduction book on Derivtatives
Excellent book, must have for finance nuts.
A must read for finance specialists
Great introduction book but...

Introduction to Futures and Options Markets (3rd Edition)
John Hull
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Must have for anyone interested on Derivatives.......2006-09-15

I really must thank John Hull for this book. The way every topic is covered gives you basic knowledge to enter the depths that await you regarding futures, options and other derivatives. The book is so masterfully written that the approach to every topic is very fluid. Once you've covered the book, you are ready to go on with a more complicated book, including Hull's "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" which has a more anylitical approach than this introductory book. The examples are the easiest ones and you can understand everything so clearly I wish there were more books like this.

The best nontechnical introduction book on Derivtatives.......2000-09-04

Hull wrote a classic book for the introduction to futures and options markets. It's for the serious reader who doesn't want to all the deviations and basics of option pricings. If, after reading this book, you're still interested in derivatives you cann proceed with Hull's "Options, Futures, and Other Derivative Securities", Kolb's "Futures, Options, and Swaps", or for the very ambitious student Wilmott's "Derivatives or Quantitative Finance".

Excellent book, must have for finance nuts........1998-08-31

The material is similar to his other book, Options Futures and Other Derivatives, but much more easy to read. With Brealy & Myers, this forms a good complementary text.

A must read for finance specialists.......1998-08-27

If you dont understand what the words Futures/options are and you want to know it, this is the place to start. hull(from McGil i think!) has excellently presented information on these subjects for the student as well as for the practitioner. As a student of MBA(finance) this was the prescribed text and I can safely say this compares with the best. sepcifically this book deals with the entire gamut of Futures/Options/Swaps with mathematical models where required. From CBOT to this day!!

Great introduction book but..........1998-06-18

I reommend readers who are familiar with the derivatives should buy Hull's "Options, Futures and other Derivatives" since it goes faster trough the basics and covers more advanced topics.

An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management with Student CD-ROM

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A Great Introduction for under or MBA
A Must Have
Excellent book for concepts
An excellent books for Derivatives concepts.

An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management with Student CD-ROM
Don M. Chance
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A market leader, this book is ideally designed for either a one- or two-semester course in options and/or futures, derivatives, and/or risk management at the advanced undergraduate or MBA level. Detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management û as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy - allows instructors to selectively tailor inclusion of topics/chapters to fit the length of the course.

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Read Hull.......2006-06-29

I dislike Don Chance both as a person and as a writer. I find him arrogant and intolerable and that bleeds through into his writing. So, yes, I am biased.
I highly recommend instead that you seek out John Hull, a much better author, he has two books; one for undergrad and another for grad (which is the 'bible' on this subject).

A Great Introduction for under or MBA.......2004-11-27

Dr. Chance did a excellent job in carefully introducing the concept and outline of derivatives markets to students with basic business school training. I used the 4th edition in my undergraduate course couple years ago, and built up a solid conceptual understanding in this field. The newest version still keep its pleasant style and contain some thing more about risk management.
This book offers the best introduction to undergraduate business school students or MBA student who need not to work with financial derivatives much.
But for those non-business students wants get into mathematical finance industry, to buy a book only for concept intro may not a economy choice. Refer this book if you find the first half in Hull's "Option, futures and other derivatives" not clear enough.

A Must Have.......2003-08-09

If you are a student just taken up a course in derivatives or risk management you should have this book. if you find john hull more technical, you have Don Chance who covers options and other derivatives in a greater detail and in more words. everything you want to know about how banks etc have risk mangaement systems in place and market risk instruments is here.

in case you want a greater coverage of options and pricing options, you should definatly take a look at Black Scholes and Beyond by Neil Chriss, a work of art.

Excellent book for concepts.......2003-05-09

This is an excellent book for non finance majors who would like to grasp the physical concepts behind different derivatives products traded in the OTC markets. The book is ideal for a preperation read for all aspiring to take Financial Engineering / Derivatives as majors in graduate programs.

An excellent books for Derivatives concepts........2003-05-08

If you are interested in the basic concepts governing derivatives without getting into the mathematics of it then this is the ideal book. I recommend this book for any one who is contemplating taking Derivatives as an advanced level course. The book would give a solid foundation to the concepts of risk management.

Futures and Options Markets: An Introduction

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Colin A. Carter
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/*0-13-598368-1, 59836-7, Carter, Colin A., Futures and Options Markets: An Introduction*/ This book provides an economic understanding of the development and operation of futures and options markets with numerous relevant examples. It is up to date in material, and provides readers with an intuitive explanation of the complicated nature of futures and options markets. KEY FEATURES: A perfect blend of material relating to options, futures, commodities and financials is offered as well as excellent websites for further information. For those in the field of financial planning or money management.

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Excellent Seller; Will do business again.......2005-09-10

Extremely fast delivery and product as advertised. Would do business again.

A Student's Perspective.......2002-12-10

The word BORING is what usually comes to mind when I read textbooks for my classes. They are not something I look forward to because I typically drift off into never-never-land. Usually they're missing some dynamic, and as a result they just don't seem to capture my attention.

However, this textbook sparked a DIFFERENT reaction in me. First off, I found the futures and opinions market interesting and the material in the textbook easy to understand. It was teeming with examples and diagrams that enhanced my grasp on the fundamentals behind the market. Unlike other textbooks, I found that I ENJOYED the reading. In particular, I enjoyed the numerous real-world applications provided in the boxes throughout the chapters.

I believe the greatest asset in this book are these real-world applications like: how price movements in the orange juice markets market could forecast freezing temperatures better than the U.S. National Weather service, to the enormous role hedging plays for the airline industries. By intertwining stimulating examples into the required nitty-gritty, it held my attention. I thought reading this textbook was both educational and FUN. It sparked in me a new-found enthusiasm in futures and opinions.

Futures and Options Markets: An Introduction.......2002-11-15

An outstanding introduction to futures and options markets, clear, concise and bursting with examples and current issues and controversies. Unlike most futures and options textbooks this text focuses on all types of assets - commodity, financial, energy etc. The book's blend between theory and applications and examples is outstanding. The applications, which are an intergral part of each chapter makes this a must for students and established researchers who want to gain a full understanding of the current state of the futures and options industry.

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Introduction To Futures And Options Markets - A Guide For Success

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Introduction to the Futures and Options Markets

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Options on eurodollar futures: An introduction (Bond market research)
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Apart from summarizing the financial developments, reforms and policies over the past decades of the financial system in Singapore, this second edition of the Singapore Financial Sourcebook has been completely updated, revised and expanded. Highlights include: New chapters on venture capital, franchise and internet banking. Annual budgets summarized for easy reference. Statistical tables with cumulative data that date back to the 1970s.

Latest directory of the major institutions, including contact numbers and websites. An extensive glossary of financial terms arranged alphabetically, many specific to Singapore and not found in any standard business or finance dictionaries. Main regulations and guidelines for financial institutions, including those provided by the Singapore Exchange for its member companies. Information on recent developments in corporate governance and disclosure. This book is a must for all financial institutions and libraries, and an indispensable reference guide for professionals, researchers, students and the public.

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Here is a user-friendly supplementary text for organic chemistry students that can also serve as a review of coursework for advanced students preparing for standardized tests. The author introduces this complex subject with a clear presentation of important principles that underlie most of organic chemistry. Chapters that follow focus on the following topics: alkanes; stereochemistry; alkenes; alkynes; nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions; free-radical reaction; alcohols and thiols; ethers, thioethers and epoxides; aromatic compounds; amines; aldehydes and ketones; carboxylic acids and derivatives; more chemistry of enols and enolates; and spectroscopy. Review questions and answers follow each chapter.

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Great Supplement.......2007-02-05

If you a struggling to understand your organic chemistry textbook, a supplement such as this book is a must. My organic chemistry class requires the text by Matland Jones, which so far has just been a confusing mess of information. This book has helped me grasp the necessary information for homework and lecture purposes in an easy-to-understand manner. There are also helpful quizzes at the end of each chapter. I highly recommend.

Chemistry the Easy Way (Easy Way Series)

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Chemistry the Frustrating Way!
Chemistry the BORING way

Chemistry the Easy Way (Easy Way Series)
Joseph Mascetta
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Written primarily for high school and college-101 students, this updated edition covers all important chemistry topics, including atomic structure, bonding, chemical formulas, gases, chemical calculations, liquids, solids, and phase changes, chemical reactions, acids, bases, salts, electrochemistry, the basics of organic chemistry, and other related subjects. The book also presents five practice tests with answers, charts, reference tables, and a helpful glossary. Barron's Easy Way books focus on both practical and academic topics, presenting fundamental subject matter in clear, understandable language. Equally popular as self-teaching manuals and supplementary texts for classroom use, they are written to help students improve their grades and review subject matter before tests. They are also useful for introducing general readers to a new career-related skill. Easy Way titles cover virtually all subjects that are taught on advanced high school and college-101 levels. Subject heads and key phrases are set in a second color.

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Misleading Title.......2007-09-06

This book does not cover chemistry "the easy way." I ended up throwing this book away and did not learn a thing from it. It is written at a very advanced level and is not for beginners. I would start with a basic chemistry text like Zumdahl or Chang.

Nice and simple review.......2007-02-05

This book was a nice refresher of inorganic chemistry before I took an organic chemistry class. I found the chapters easy-to-read and short, with quizzes at the end of each one. The only negative aspect are the few errors in answers and in editing, though most of the errors were obvious and could be corrected by going back in the chapter.

Great book ... for bright students.......2006-03-29

Don't be fooled by the deceptive name "The Easy Way." This is yet another book in Barron's "Easy Way" series, but this is just a name of the series. There is actually no easy or alternative method that this book employs, and it is just like any other school study guide. I did find this chemistry book helpful in many ways, but some stuff in the middle and back seemed to be too difficult for self-learning. It's not a book for everyone.

Beginning with chemical nomenclature, ions, and other concepts, "Chemistry: The Easy Way" does a good job listing new terms and important scientific concepts. However, when it gets to stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and kinetics, things start getting a little confusing. Formulas are given, some examples are given, and then you have to solve are the problems and do all the math with this meager material to teach yourself.

However, this book does have something useful - it has some practice tests at the end. This may be helpful if you are dying for a practice cemistry test.

This was a pretty good book by Joseph Mascetta. Bright students may understand this stuff quickly, but many people who resort to these types of study guides, however, are students who want to improve their understanding of chemistry and to get a better grade. This book doesn't seem to solve all that. In some cases, the testbook seemed much clearer. Preview this book at a library or bookstore and see for yourself. It could be an excellent resource for some people, but a mediocre one for others. Again, you should try it out and see for yourself.

Chemistry the Frustrating Way!.......2004-05-02

I recently needed to brush up on my Chemistry. (I had Chem 1 in college.) I could live with the boringness of this book. But I could NOT put up with the mistakes and poor editing. The chapter tests have questions on things that were never covered in the chapter, as well as wrong answers! That is not only INCREDIBLY frustrating, it also makes me wonder what else was wrong in what I was reading.

I finally decided I had to give up on this book when I was having fits of complete rage and frustration. And let me tell you what brought me back to sanity -- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry. It is a FABULOUS book. Easy to read, easy to follow, everything is thoroughly explained, and it's funny!

Chemistry the BORING way.......2003-09-24

I bought a whole bunch of books to help me with my Chem 101 class in college, and the good news is that this book was the most complete and comprehensive of any of them.

The bad news is that this book is crushingly dull, and sometimes hard to understand. While it was infinitely more comprehensive than "Chemistry for Dummies", it was so boring that I could barely keep my eyes open when studying with it. Perhaps that has something to do with my lack of talent for chemistry (as evidenced by my grade), but it seems to me that any good introductory chemistry book should at least be interesting enough that a relatively talentless student can keep their eyes open while reading it.

I recommend this book for those who can follow boring texts or those who need something to help them with their insomnia.

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Astounding! A must read for anyone who is Alive.

Peak-Performance Living: Easy, Drug-Free Ways to Alter Your own Brain Chemistry and Achieve Optimal Healt
Joel C. Robertson
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Astounding! A must read for anyone who is Alive........1999-08-17

I now understand the cause of my moods. This book explains how the human brain's ability to "feel" is solely determined by our actions. Our mood is created through neurochemically transmitted food, exersice and thought. Take the time to read this book, you will understand how valuable it is when you finish. This is at least, a must read and at most, a necessary, weekly reference guide.

Learn chemistry the easy way (Cambridge's learn the easy way series)

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Learn chemistry the easy way (Cambridge's learn the easy way series)
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Breathe easy: Antioxidants may be an effective and inexpensive way to maintain healthy lungs and lower the risk of chronic disease.: An article from: Human Ecology

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Breathe easy: Antioxidants may be an effective and inexpensive way to maintain healthy lungs and lower the risk of chronic disease.: An article from: Human Ecology
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This digital document is an article from Human Ecology, published by Cornell University, Human Ecology on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3011 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Breathe easy: Antioxidants may be an effective and inexpensive way to maintain healthy lungs and lower the risk of chronic disease.
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Optimising extrusion the KTP way: extruders can realise distinct cost and timesaving benefits by using mathematical models. Because these are not easy ... An article from: Plastics Engineering

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Optimising extrusion the KTP way: extruders can realise distinct cost and timesaving benefits by using mathematical models. Because these are not easy ... An article from: Plastics Engineering
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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1477 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Chemistry the Easy Way

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Discover the flexibility to teach science your way

Earth Materials and Processes, as a part of the Glencoe Science 15-Book Series, provides students with accurate and comprehensive coverage of the mineral and rocks, along with the dynamic nature of plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes. The strong content coverage integrates a wide range of hands-on experiences, critical-thinking opportunities, and real-world applications. The modular approach allows you to mix and match books to meet your curricula.

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, died in 1984. Dirac's college, St. John's of Cambridge, generously endowed annual lectures to be held at Cambridge University in his memory. This volume contains a much expanded version of the 1994 Dirac Lecture by Nobel Laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes. The book presents an impressionistic tour of the physics of soft interfaces. Full of insight and interesting asides, it not only provides an accessible introduction to this topic, but also lays down many markers and signposts that will be of interest to researchers in physics or chemistry. Features discussions of wetting and dewetting, the dynamics of different types of interface and adhesion and polymer/polymer welding.

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There are books that never seem to belong entirely to children, but they're not strictly grown-up novels either. Philip Pullman's fantasy novels fall into this category, as does Francesca Lia Block's nutty Weetzie Bat series. For those who love books that can be witty, knowing, and innocent all at once, Diane Leslie has created young Fleur de Leigh. We met her first in Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime, and now she's gotten herself a sequel, Fleur de Leigh in Exile. A 1950s Hollywood brat with an over-the-top radio star mom, Fleur de Leigh is a narrator of deadpan formality and quicksilver goofiness. In Fleur de Leigh in Exile, she's landed in, really, the ultimate exile: Tuscon. No sooner does she arrive at the Rancho Cambridge West boarding school school than she encounters her former best friend, Daisy, who now goes by Twyla. In proper Boarding School Fiction fashion, the novel is deeply episodic, with pranks galore, adventure-filled forays into the real world, and of course some lessons learned. All through this slightly shambling and messy plot, Fleur de Leigh observes the world around her with her customary aplomb. Of one of her teachers: "His chin seemed to form its own hairless goatee." These novels are all about an eccentric, smart young girl's voice, and Leslie maintains it seamlessly. --Claire Dederer

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Diane Leslie's first novel, Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime, chronicled young Fleur Leigh's glamorous misadventures in 1950s Hollywood. "Très charmant indeed," Entertainment Weekly praised this Library Journal and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1999.

Fleur de Leigh in Exile finds fifteen-year-old Fleur in diminished circumstances. She transferred mid-semester to Tucson's Rancho Cambridge West -- the cheapest boarding school in all the United States -- where frail students convalesce in the arid clime and dine on the mess hall's "adobe melt." "Think of yourself as a conquistador," her B-movie actress mother urges, but Fleur's eyes are widened to the evils of prejudice and the burdens of combating it.

After a night of dorm-room high jinks, Fleur and friends band together as the "Four-Letter Four." Sentenced to a civic-minded punishment deep in the desert, the "doomed do-gooders" encounter a grave situation far removed from Fleur's upper-class upbringing. Serious issues abound, but in Diane Leslie's world even the most painful moments are tinged with comedy.

Diane Leslie's writing is "enchanting, believable, and wickedly funny" (Denver Post). Witty and fresh, Fleur de Leigh in Exile pits Heartland against Hollywood in a tale whose courageous heroine is as endearing in exile as ever before.

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Fleur De Leigh In Exile.......2005-12-15

Fleur De Leigh In Exile is a novel by Diane Leslie, this book is the sequel to the book Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime. This book is a story of the fifteen year old Fleur who got sent to a bad and cheap boarding school called Tucson Rancho Cambridge in the middle of no where. Her mother is an actress and likes to tell Fleur what to do. Also her high class friend Daisy comes to the same school. Things go bad but in the end they it is all good. I would recommend this book to other readers. You should read the first book first so you know the background of Fleur and her life. The writing quality is very good. I like the style of writing. The woman's issues that are addressed in this book are issues of acceptance by the girls in the new school, and academics. When fleur first gets to the school she in not accepted, and she doesn't like it. While being showed around the dorm by the other girls one of them said, " Gosh! Wow! You aren't a snob!(10)" That girl didn't like Fleur because she was wealthy and had different customs then them. The other girls need to learn how to respect Fleur and her differences. An example of an issue of academics would be when Fleur was asked to pick a book from the library, "To be honest, I chose Noblesse Oblige because it was the least batter book on the shelves.(36)" They had the problem of using old weathered down books and not being able to use new and good books. Women should be aware of this book because it will teach them good life skills. Overall this book was very good and is a good book for teenagers.

Hilarious.......2003-10-03

Fifteen-year-old Fleur De Leigh is back in this new novel, which has her leaving her posh Hollywood home, and trekking all the way to the cheapest sleep-away academy in America. And boy are there some peculiar things happening. Her roommate enjoys sleeping in the barn with the horses, and the headmaster's ambition is to play Abraham Lincoln in the movies.

Fleur De Leigh is a likeable character, who I'm sure many females between the ages of 12-18 can relate to. She's humorous, and gets into plenty of mischief with her best friend, Daisy. Diane Leslie has created a character that we can all laugh at, with her crazy antics, whether at home or at sleep-away school. I'd recommend this book to anyone who's looking for a fun read.

Fleur returns - to be sent away! A great read!.......2003-06-01

This is such fun - the sequel to Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime is just as polished and rewarding, though structurally it's more of a traditional novel than the nanny-driven, short-story-like chapters of Life of Crime. Abruptly exiled from Hollywood by her parents to an Arizona boarding school, Fleur ("the de is silent") Leigh continues on her life's journey in her enchanting and word-wise manner. Ever determined to apply what she has learned both in school and from her resoundingly in-their-own-world parents about the proper ways of wending herself in the world, Fleur is a delightful narrator through her school-year-of-horrors at the "cheapest boarding school in the United States," providing a reading experience of the highest order: entertaining, enlightening, heartening.

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