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Anna North's fluid prose moves this story along with considerable force and velocity. The language in America Pacifica seeps into you, word by word, drop by drop, until you are saturated in the details of this vivid and frightening world. --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

The second recent children's tennis book by a psychologist (viz., Anthony, A Winning Combination, p. 1031), this is less intense and less competition-oriented, but even more involved in its discussion of teaching methods - making it more appropriate for tennis pros, perhaps, than for the run of parents. Braden - who taught Tracey Austin - feels that parents needn't be expert players or instructors to teach their kids: recognize your limitations as a player and just be yourself. Start children only when they're interested, he cautions, be it at three or 15 years. Three basic ways of learning are cited - through kinesthetic (body sense), visual, or auditory receptors - and parents are advised to find out which their child responds to best, and to teach accordingly. Actual lessons are explained from the first day through to advanced junior play; the aspects covered - for both individual and group teaching - range from different strokes to (thank goodness) good playing manners. Without heavyhanded psychologizing, Braden is attentive to parents' problems: learn to distinguish between your children's needs and your own, he says, and know when to step aside (if what happens during the lesson is interfering with your relationship; if your child isn't learning). Tennis, he's aware, has become a serious subject and brings out the worst in some parents; yet he manages to pack in all the necessary information and still keep in touch with the primary goal: enjoyment. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Anna North graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2009, having received a Teaching-Writing Fellowship and a Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship. North grew up in Los Angeles, and lives in Brooklyn.

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