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Lacey Barnes has dreamed of being an actress for as long as she can remember. So when she gets the opportunity to star in a movie alongside one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, she doesn’t hesitate to accept the part.But Lacey quickly learns that life in the spotlight isn’t as picture perfect as she imagined. She’s having trouble bonding with her costars, her father has hired the definition of a choir boy, Donavan Lake, to tutor her, and somewhere along the way she’s lost her acting mojo. And just...

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the...

"Charly St. James takes on her biggest challenge yet when her television show goes for a ratings sweep by making over the life of a not-so-willing small-town teen with a big secret ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Make and play your own musical instruments Pat-a-cake make and shake is a hands-on guide to making musical instruments with everyday objects. Anything from newspapers to balloons can be easily transformed into original soundmakers and musical keepsakes. The book and CD pack contains lively songs, stories and chants for children to sing and play along to. This must-have teaching resource compliments the holistic nature of an early years setting. It enhances communica...

Songbirds: Seasons includes songs about spring, summer, autumn and winter, growth and change, and weather and clothing and is specially designed to help the generalist teaching music in the classroom. Songbirds: Seasons includes songs about spring, summer, autumn and winter, growth and change, and weather and clothing, which can easily be related to topic work. The songs appeal especially to young children and are short enough to learn by rote. No music reading is required and the CD i...

A varied selection of pieces arranged for solo flute and piano accompaniment suitable for both lessons and concert occasions. Songs from the shows mingle with classical tunes and folk melodies and range from the simple to the more advanced. This collection offers a companionable repertoire to set beside any course of flute tuition. Malcolm Pollock is a teacher of wind instruments and was the author of "Abracadabra Flute", "Abracadabra Clarinet Duets" and the companion to this collection, "Abraca...

A fantastic collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches children the numeracy skills they need in fun and memorable ways. Tom Thumb's musical maths - the book which put the fun into the numeracy hour - is relaunching with a fresh new cover. This wonderfully clever collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches numeracy skills in fun and memorable ways. Completely new is a whole set of content links with the National Numeracy Strategy. Everyone fam...

Primary music teaching resources for subject leaders and class teachers - engaging lessons, activities and games for kids. Irresistibly upbeat grooves, riffs and styles to wake up and shake up the musician in everyone. A complete resource for developing general musicianship skills and musical confidence right from the start. Perfect for Wider Opportunities schemes, this is also ideal for classroom teachers already using the Music Express scheme. The pack (book + 2xC...

This pack for Key Stage 2 teachers contains 12 complete recordings of music from different times and places, including British vocal music, medieval dance music, South American panpipes, steel pans from the Caribbean, Baroque orchestral music, contemporary rock and television themes, classical gamelan and Chinese percussion. The elements of music are investigated through activities which lead into and out of listening, and which take the older child into more demanding exploration. No music read...

After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents' personal problems.

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life". "Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)

'THE PUNK FACTOR is a kick ass story that will grab your heart in a fierce punk rock grip and not let go. I loved it!' Jennifer Mathieu, author of MOXIESeventeen-year-old Frankie is obsessed with what everyone else is thinking. She can keep up with the chat - from feminism to tattoos - but when it comes to her own ideas, it's not so easy to hide her lack of confidence. But there is one personal obsession she can't deny - her art student drop-out ex boyfriend Doc. With the help of her best frien...