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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.

'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...

A collection of action songs, dances, sound effect songs and songs to act out, all designed to develop literacy, social and communication skills. The songbook contains the music, words, piano accompaniments and play-along percussion ideas. The CD contains a recording of the accompaniments. A collection of action songs, dances, sound effect songs and songs to act out. They are all designed to develop literacy, social and communication skills, and build young children's confidence. The s...

Teachers can work through this resource, or dip into it. It includes games, poems, songs and stories, and offers children the chance to understand the basic elements which make up music through a collection of varied and humorous material. The CD contains all the songs and stories. Developing basic music skills with songs, rhymes and stories. A wealth of material for cross-curricular learning, including first forays into the science of sound. Photocopiable game sheets and a CD of all t...

Take a great story and lots of silly sounds, mix with a happy helping of children, and you have a recipe for a Kaye Umansky Noisy Picture Book. Riotously funny retellings of favourite tales as you have never heard them before. Take a great story and lots of silly sounds, mix with a happy helping of children, and you have a recipe for a Kaye Umansky Noisy Picture Book. Riotously funny retellings of favourite tales as you have never heard them before. Mummy Pig waves goodbye to...

Another catchy addition to the cross-curricular songsheets series, A River's Tale is perfect for enlivening KS2 Geography and for performing in assemblies and concerts. A River's Tale is one of four geography songs in the cross-curricular Songsheets series. Linking with the KS2 Geography curriculum, all four songs are catchy, easy to learn and cover key topic facts - in a fun way! Perfect for assemblies, concerts and for enlivening topic work. Each songsheet in this series co...

Singing Express is a complete scheme for singing in the primary years. It supplies everything that children and teacher need for singing together - brilliant, cross-curricular singing materials, which naturally and easily help grow confident voices and full guidance and help with using them. Singing Express is a complete scheme for singing in the primary years. It supplies everything that children and teacher need for singing together - brilliant, cross-curricular singing mat...

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and inspired myriad scholarly studies. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations. With chapters that consider ho...

Songs and activities for 3-5 year olds based on popular topics. Includes a free CD for full audio support. Musical Steps: Homes has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music through popular topics. No music reading is required with this friendly, full-colour guide packed with photos and simple, step-by-step instructions on how to teach the songs and actions. Each song is accompanied by related activities that...

A contemporary romance that hits all the right notes - the gorgeous first novel by Emery Lord, author of When We Collided, The Names They Gave Us and the Zoella & Friends 2017 Book Club title The Start of Me and You. After finishing with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O'Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. Reagan's best friend and country superstar Lilah Montgomery is about to kick off her 24-city tour, and Lilah is nursing a broken heart of her own - so this is a perfect opportu...

Musical Structures is the fourth of six individual Book + CD + CD-ROM packs in Music Express Year 7. An upbeat and thoroughly engaging series of lessons which introduce aspects of Western Classical structures with a fresh, modern approach. MUSIC EXPRESS YEAR 7 follows on from the award-winning Music Scheme for Primary Schools. Year 7 is published in six individual Book + CD + CD-ROM packs, each filled with all the resources a teacher could need and offering the flexibility to use acous...

Muscles and Bones is one of four exciting new science songs in the cross-curricular Songsheets series. Each of the songs links with the KS2 Science curriculum. All four songs are catchy, easy to learn and cover key topic facts - in a fun way! Perfect for assemblies, concerts and for enlivening topic work. Muscles and Bones is one of four exciting new science songs in the A&C Black cross-curricular Songsheets series. Each of the songs links with the KS2 Science curriculum. All four song...

Primary music teaching resources for subject leaders and class teachers - engaging lessons, activities and games for kids. Replacement CD for Music Express Year 6 CD1 Replacement CD for Music Express Year 6 CD1

The National Curriculum requires that children have experience playing tuned percussion instruments. This book and CD pack is designed for the generalist teacher at Key Stage 2 who may have limited resources and little confidence. It does not require the ability to read music. The National Curriculum requires that children have experience playing tuned percussion instruments (xylophones, glockenspiels, chime bars etc). This book and CD pack is designed for the generalist teacher at Key...

Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords. Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created in a lab in the year 3112, then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan. Cade's quest to locate Xan joins her with an array of outlaws - her first friends - on a galaxy-spanning adventure. And once Cade discovers the wild j...

Primary music teaching resources for subject leaders and class teachers - engaging lessons, activities and games for kids. A set of lesson plans, recordings and photocopiable activities for teaching music to Year 6 pupils. The CD/CD-ROM contains lesson plans and recorded extracts to accompany the activities in the book. The text contains instantly accessible photocopiable activities. Music Express contains everything needed to implement curriculum music in the classroom week...

The new edition of this classic music tutorial includes re-set music, new illustrations, extra notes and reinforcement exercises for tricky corners. The CD demonstrates each piece on the flute with piano accompaniments Abracadabra Flute has become a classic in the market, and here is a brand new edition. The cover has been redesigned, the music re-set, and new illustrations commissioned. Some new material has been added, supplying extra help where new notes are introduced and reinforce...

Drum Sound and Drum Tuning assists drummers, sound engineers, and music students in learning critical skills related to drum sound and achieving an optimised and personalised drum kit set-up. The book covers the essential theories of percussion acoustics and develops this knowledge in order to facilitate creative approaches to drum tuning and professional-level recording and mixing of drums. All aspects of drumhead vibration, drumhead equalisation, and resonant drumhead coupling are de-mystifi...

MATERIAL WORLD is one of four exciting new science songs in the cross-curricular Songsheets series. Each of the songs links with the KS2 Science curriculum. All four songs are catchy, easy to learn and cover key topic facts - in a fun wayl Perfect for assemblies, concerts and for enlivening topic work. MATERIAL WORLD is one of four exciting new science songs in the A&C Black cross-curricular Songsheets series. Each of the songs links with the KS2 Science curriculum. All four songs are...

An essential guide packed with plenty of practical advice for parents whose children would like to start learning a musical instrument. Helping your child to embark on a musical journey can be daunting and confusing, especially if you don't consider yourself to be musical. Elizabeth Lawrence draws on her extensive experience as a musician, teacher and parent to answer questions such as: Which instrument is right for my child? Where can I find a teacher? How do I encourage my...

Roald Dahl's Cinderella joins Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs in a glittering line-up of wickedly funny productions which children and audiences just love. Cindy defies her Ugly Sisters, meets a magic fairy and lands a dance with the prince at the palace ball. So far so good! But far from being the perfect gentleman, the prince turns out to a perfect beast and chops off the heads o...

A songbook to support the teaching of phonics through songs, chants and games, ideal for use alongside Letters and Sounds phases 4, 5 and 6. It continues the work of the successful Singing Phonics and Singing Phonics 2. Singing Phonics 3 is the third in the successful Singing Phonics song collection designed to support phonics teaching and enrich young children's experience of language in a fun and interactive way. It follows Singing Phonics and Singing Phonics 2. Ideal for u...