Bernheimer (human development, Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California) tells the story of a group of nontraditional students attending early childhood teacher preparation programs in the L.A. community college district, and her personal experience as an instructor in these programs. Bernheimer provides college instructors with insights into how they might effectively reach a new, and growing, segment of the student population immigrants, single parents, returning homemakers whose orientation to education is not that of the mainstream college student. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)