I'm Conn, and I work in Macbeth's castle. I fetch and I carry, and I see everything. Sometimes I see things I shouldn't; things so dreadful I'll never forget them. * Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. * Text type: * Curriculum links:
Fangirls get a bad rap all the time - people say we're weird, hysterical, obsessed, certifiable. But those people don't understand. Just because we're fangirls, doesn't mean we're crazy. It's important you know that up front. Because everything I'm about to tell you is going to seem . . . well, crazy. From thrilling debut author Goldy Moldavsky comes Kill The Boy Band, a pitch-black, hilarious take on modern fandom and the badass girls who have the power to make - or break - the people we call...
The Beat on Ruby's Street (Beat Street Series Book, #1)
by Jenna Zark
Anna Glory, the one non-singing member of a gospel-singing family, feels left out, like her misfit Uncle Newt, until the day the family bus is involved in a terrible accident.
This book is a fun and interactive way to celebrate the first Christmas. When the button on the front cover is pressed, a 'halo' of lights surround the baby Jesus and the sound, "Silent Night" begins to play. While the music is playing the lights around Baby Jesus glow, then dim, then glow again. With each page, more and more visitors to the manger appear until the final page where the manger is full and everyone gathers to worship the new King.
In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
Surely an alley cat can never be a ballet cat ... or can he?The Crazy Cat Crew love to dance - they groove and they bop, they move and they hop, all night long. Then, one night, Arthur slinks off and discovers something really special: a pair of ballet shoes. He immediately puts them on and goes back to show the gang his new style of dancing. But the other cats don t like ballet and they laugh Arthur out of town - only to realize that all dancing is really cool after all and that they miss their...
During the early 1900s, a teenaged inmate's dreary life at Massachusetts's Sherborn Prison for Women changes for the better after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the production of the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance."