Jan Maxwell
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Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller, who keeps her readers spellbound. Now, in her first two published stories, written in the fifties, she draws on her career as a young Pan American Airway-flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue. In Stowaway, a courageous flight attendant helps a desperate young man of the underground escape the Soviet police. In Milkrun, a flight attendant becomes immersed in a web of deception when...
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Few behavioral problems challenge and frustrate parents, caregivers, and teachers as does verbal rudeness in children of any age. Reinforced by the wise-cracking kids on TV and in the movies, backtalk has become all too common among today's youngsters. But there is nothing cute about this behavior. Remarks like 'Yeah, right,' 'Big deal,' and 'Make me', from children as young as three, get in the way of real communication between parents and kids,...