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Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight into the vocal genre she calls home. Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century spans the late middle-20th century through the second decade of the 21st. Manning's comprehensive selection of...

If Fancy Nancy got angry. Really, really angry.Millie is quiet. Millie is sweet. Millie is mild. But the kids at school don't listen to her. And she never gets a piece of birthday cake with a flower on it. And some girls from her class walk right on top of her chalk drawing and smudge it. And they don't even say they're sorry!So that's when Millie decides she wants to be fierce! She frizzes out her hair, sharpens her nails and runs around like a wild thing....

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight into the vocal genre she calls home. Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century spans the late middle-20th century through the second decade of the 21st. Manning's comprehensive selection of...

The Merchant family never imagined how much their lives could expand or how deeply their hearts could stretch. Gershwin and Priscilla have built a steady life rooted in love, faith, and doing what’s right, even when it’s hard. When their teenage twins, Marshall and Tae, visit a local children’s home, a quiet calling begins to reshape their family. What starts as compassion grows into a journey filled with children carrying heavy pasts and a longing to belong. Room to Grow begins the Mercha...

The Merchant family never imagined how much their lives could expand or how deeply their hearts could stretch. Gershwin and Priscilla have built a steady life rooted in love, faith, and doing what’s right, even when it’s hard. When their teenage twins, Marshall and Tae, visit a local children’s home, a quiet calling begins to reshape their family. What starts as compassion grows into a journey filled with children carrying heavy pasts and a longing to belong. Room to Grow begins the Mercha...

What made the dog turn green? And why is the water in the pool green? Will teddy save his pet-sitting business?

?Once it starts?the longing for a dog?there is no cure for it.? Not checkers or kites or furry boots with zippers; not playing the trumpet or sharing movie popcorn with your friend; nothing can stop the longing for a dog. . . . Nothing?but a dog!With lyrical text and art that ranges from bright and colorful to subtle and dreamy, this book perfectly captures one little girl?s yearning for a barking, bounding best friend. Readers young and old will recognize themselves in this emotio...

A funny friendship story from New York Times bestselling author Sarah WeeksMac wants to spend a day at the beach, but Cheese would rather stay in bed.Can Mac convince his best friend that the sea is the place to be?Mac and Cheese and the Perfect Plan is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar...

It takes one smart sheep to escape from a piano movers’ van and find his way home in this humorous friendship story for emerging and newly independent readers by beloved, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt and coauthor Elizabeth Stickney.Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson is also one smart sheep, and soon enough he's finding his way home t...

A darkly funny new story from the queen of UK YA.Alice Jenkins is the worst girlfriend in the world according to the many, many boys who've shimmied up lampposts and shoplifted from New Look to impress her, only to be dumped when she gets bored of them. Alice has a very low boredom threshold.But she never gets bored with Franny, her best friend since they met at nursery school. Friends are for ever. Ain't nothing going to come between them. Girls rule, boys drool is their m...

This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln, which lies on sloping ground on the northern scarp of the Witham gap, and its adjacent suburbs between 1972 and 1987, and forms a companion volume to LAS volumes 2 and 3 which cover other parts of the historic city. The earliest features encountered were discovered both near to the line of Ermine Street and towards Broadgate. Remains of timber storage buildings were found, probably associated with t...