An out-of-this-world new middle-grade graphic novel about a genius scientist and her evil nemesis—from New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor and cartoonist Jim Di Bartolo Don’t you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, that’s how Billie Blaster’s day is going! The genius child of two famous scientists, Billie is an inventor extraordinaire and the star of the annual science fair, much to the disgust of her nemesis, Tiny Hector Glum. But now their rivalry has gone too far, and the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. Can Billie prevent an intergalactic war that’s kind of totally her fault? With her pet goat, Lucy, a giant robot head, and a toilet weasel from a distant planet, she might just stand a chance. Join them on their perilous adventure, in a spaceship without a bathroom.
This fun and empowering picture book about marching to the beat of your own drum and celebrating your unique talents comes from Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, the #1 bestselling creators of Rosie Revere, Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist. Billie Jean Peet is the middle kid in a house full of music. Her older sister sings, her younger sister drums, and even her mouse Pop knows how to bust a move. But when Billie Jean tries to join in, her notes come out sharp and flat. She just wants to find her niche, but the more she tries, the more she worries she’s not good at anything. Billie Jean is sure she’s stuck being so-so, but when a mistake on the basketball court flips into an unexpected revelation, she’s able to combine all her interests and create something completely her own. From author-illustrator team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts comes an unforgettable story about embracing what makes you unique in order to forge your own path.Check out all the books in the Questioneers series:The Questioneers Picture Book series: Iggy Peck, Architect • Rosie Revere, Engineer • Ada Twist, Scientist • Sofia Valdez, Future Prez • Aaron Slater, Illustrator • Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year • Billie Jean Peet, AthleteThe Questioneers Chapter Book series: Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters • Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants • Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion • Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote • Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs • Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake • Lila Greer and the Shrieking ShadowThe Questioneers Why Files series: Exploring Flight! • All About Plants! • The Science of Baking • Bug Bonanza! • Rockin’ Robots! • Team Green!The Questioneers Ada Twist, Scientist series: Ghost Busted • Show Me the Bunny • Brainstorm Book • 5-Minute Ada Twist, Scientist StoriesThe Questioneers Big Project Book series: Iggy Peck’s Big Project Book for Amazing Architects • Rosie Revere’s Big Project Book for Bold Engineers • Ada Twist’s Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists • Sofia Valdez’s Big Project Book for Awesome Activists • Aaron Slater’s Big Project Book for Astonishing Artists
Capture Middle School Readers with These Exciting Stories of the Lives and Careers of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees with Information That Will Never Go Out of Date This exciting new series from Rosen Central explores the lives and careers of key musicians in rock and roll, each of whom is an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Each book features details of the triumphs and trials of these performers, as well as up-to-date information on performances, recordings, and tours. These books, with information that will never go out of date, are a must-read for any middle school student interested in music and pop culture.
★"Open, clear, inviting...A pitch-perfect portrayal of a summer day."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Celebrating the supportive relationship between a child and her dog, this story shows how we can all be brave and achieve things in our own time. Billie prefers playing quietly, but the beach is a noisy place. Her energetic dog, Bean, is happy to explore the sand and water. When Billie does try going for a swim, she has a painful surprise and heads back to shore. But Bean digs up something that can help Billie get back in the water where she soon discovers a whole world of quiet solitude and spectacular color beneath the surface.
★"Delightful, portraying a little one's first forays into independence, joys, fears, and all...A simple yet wonderfully satisfying escapade."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Celebrating the supportive relationship between a child and her dog, this story gently introduces the resilience and bravery that come with the first steps toward independence. Billie is reading quietly in her apartment while her mom does laundry downstairs. But her impatient dog Bean wants to go outside. Billie has taken Bean outside before when mom was watching, so she decides to try taking Bean out by herself--just around the block. Billie and Bean enjoy the vibrant city street, but after stopping to pick a flower in the park, Billie becomes disoriented by the tall buildings and can't remember the way back to their building. As Billie begins to worry, Bean tugs on the leash in encouragement and Billie discovers that she's braver than she thought she could be.
Celebrating the supportive relationship between a child and her dog, this story reminds us that, with resilience and courage, we can find our own way through something new and scary. Billie liked visiting the mountains when she could be pulled in a sled, but Mom says she's big enough to try ski lessons instead this time. Billie doesn't like going fast and finds the hill too steep. When she notices a poster for dogsledding, Billie decides she and her dog, Bean, can make their own fun on the slopes. But when Bean is startled by some falling snow, Billie is left all alone in the cold. Finding her courage and staying calm, Billie realizes she wasn't as alone as she thought and finds her way to Bean and Mom.
Book Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+)_______________The story of WWII starring the brilliant pilots you've never heard of... the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) who battled against the odds to get the air force's planes to the front lines. This coming-of-age tale is perfect for fans of Emma Carroll, Michael Morpurgo and Hilary McKay._______________October, 1942. When twelve-year-old Billie is out exploring with her pet chicken, she sees a plane crash into a field and is left wondering if the pilot even survived. Determined to find out more, Billie finds a way into the ATA – a group of amazing pilots who defy the odds to get planes from the factories to the front lines – and her life changes for ever. Some of the pilots are men who are too old, or too injured for the air force. But many more are women. Intrepid, inspiring women who show Billie what she might grow up to become.With missions including ferrying turkeys over from Ireland and flying unfamiliar, broken planes, Billie is desperate to help. But piloting fighter planes could turn out to be more than she bargained for...
Eleanora "Lady Day" Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, played a primary role in the development of American jazz culture and in African American history. Devoted to the enduring jazz icon, covering many aspects of her career, image and legacy, these fresh essays range from musical and vocal analyses, to critical assessments of film depictions of the singer, to analysis of the social movements and protests addressed by her signature songs, including her impact on contemporary movements such as #BlackLivesMatter. More than a century after her birth, Billie Holiday's abiding relevance and impact is a testament to the power of musical protest. This collection pays tribute to her creativity, bravery and lasting legacy.
Billie is a very shy bird, who one day, falls out of his nest while his mother is away. He goes on an adventure to find someone to help him get back into his nest and meets a lot of new friends along the way About the AuthorJeffrey Allen Cunningham resides in Springboro, Pennsylvania where he enjoys sports, bike riding, motorcycles, and bird watching. He likes to support different charities in his spare time. He hopes that this book will be an enjoyable tool to help children learn how to read and teach them to not be afraid of making new friends.
Billie-Jo: Collection of Poetry includes stories of family life, humor, and loss. These poems also tackle prejudice, betrayal, and uncertainty. Author Billie-Jo Carroll-Tierney also writes about her family and loved ones in her poetry, as well as extended family members. She lost her youngest brother due to choices he made and his story is included within these poems. The author loves to talk to people and this is how she learns more about the world in which we live. About the Author Author Billie-Jo Carroll-Tierney is a biracial woman and a stay-at-home mother of two teenage daughters. She grew up in central New Jersey, but moved around a lot growing up. She has been married to her husband, Judd, for 24 years. Writing is something Billie-Jo has loved doing since she was a young girl. She began writing poetry about seven years ago. She writes about everything she comes into touch with throughout life. It's her way of purging her past and talking about important social issues. In her free time, Billie-Jo likes to read and considers herself a psychic and deep thinker. Billie-Jo: Collection of Poetry is her first book.
I lived on a 90-acre farm, with about 35 acres of pasture. The house had a front room, dining room, kitchen, and two bedrooms. The kitchen had a pan for a table and a bucket of water to wash the dishes and prepare food. A wood burning cook stove and some shelves were built for pots, pans, and dishes. The front living room had some chairs, a wood burning stove for heat in the winter and some coal oil (kerosene) lamps for light. The dining room had a table, some chairs, a bench and flour can. If someone visited us, we used the flour can for a chair. There was no electricity. All the lights, stoves and everything else used coal oil, coal, or wood for fuel. There was no refrigerator, so we bought ice at the store and kept it in an icebox to keep it from melting too fast. There was a radio, but it was powered with expensive batteries that didn't last very long, so it was only used for special events. There weren't any bathrooms or running water. To take a bath, water was drawn from the well, carried to the house, then heated on the cook stove and poured into a washtub. Everyone took a bath in the same water. To use the toilet everyone went to the outhouse. Toilet papers were pages torn from a Sears catalog. There was no washing machine or clothes dryer, so my mom heated water outside in a big cast iron pot that had a place for firewood under it. She washed clothes in a washtub with lye soap and a rubbing board, and hung them on a line outside to dry. In the winter, my brother and I would take the wagon, go to the woods, and use the crosscut saw to cut down some trees. The axe was a double bit and both edges were very sharp. One of my chores was to keep the wood box in the kitchen full. One day when I was chopping wood, my little sister walked up behind me. I didn't see her, so when I swung the axe back, it hit her upper lip. She still has a scar. We used the cellar for storing food and for a safe place to go in event of a storm. The house was situated next to a dirt road and about three miles from the store and the school. We did not have a car so we walked to school and to the store. At times when we had eggs or cream to sell, we took the horse drawn wagon. There was a small pond in the pigpen for the pigs to drink water from and an area for them to wallow in the mud. Pigs don't have sweat glands so the mud helped protect them from the weather and flies. Plus they were pigs, so they liked mud. The blacksmith shop had a forge to heat metal so it could be shaped; it used coal for fuel. The billows were used to blow air on the fire to make it hot enough to heat the metal for shaping. There was an anvil (a smooth heavy iron block) to work the hot metal, and tools to handle the hot metal. We sharpened plow points. Shaped horse shoes, repaired tools and to form the metal into other useful things, by heating steel then dipping it into cold water will harden the metal, this makes plow point's last longer and keep and help keep them from bending. The barn had a loft for storing hay, some cribs for corn, and other food for the animals and some stalls for milking the cows. There were mice in the barn, so there was always a cat that lived in the barn. There was a big pond in the pasture for the animals to drink from, and sometimes we hauled water from it to water the garden. I would swim in the pond and take baths there in the summertime. A small creek ran through the pasture but it was mostly dry except when it rained. Wild onions grew near the creek in the springtime. If the milk cows ate the wild onions the milk would smell and taste like onions. We would put the cows that we were milking into a smaller pasture until the wild onions were gone.
"There's mo' opportunity in Opportunity, MO", unless a drought discourages the tourist trade. Though her B&B/Antiques business has fallen off, Billie D'Allesandro doesn't let it dampen her spirits. Instead, she focuses on helping her family and friends. After a traumatic experience, Chad Moore abandoned his faith, but not his friends. When he books a room at Billie's B&B, he's not sure what sort of mission he's on. Before long, he finds himself wanting to help both Billie and her beloved small town. Will he have to destroy one in order to save the other?
Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book, Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics into the conversation, Okiji attunes to various sites of intemperance and equivocation in thought and music. Billie's Bent Elbow eschews the parsimonious tendencies of the Western philosophical tradition, in its contribution to a shared project of improvised correspondence that finds its criticality in its heterophony of approach and intention. The book ranges from Haitian revolutionaries' rendition of "La Marseillaise," to Cecil Taylor's synesthetic poetics, to the aporetic mien of the orisha Esu, to Billie Holiday's undulating arm. What is more, by way of her intense fascination with these sites of fantastic noise, Okiji brings our attention to a galaxy of intimacies that flash up in her experiments in array and correspondence. The nonsensuous standard Okiji cultivates in this musical and essayistic book, in concert with a host of theorists, musicians and artists, is as much a statement of non-citizenry as it is preparation for intoxicated gathering.
Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book, Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics into the conversation, Okiji attunes to various sites of intemperance and equivocation in thought and music. Billie's Bent Elbow eschews the parsimonious tendencies of the Western philosophical tradition, in its contribution to a shared project of improvised correspondence that finds its criticality in its heterophony of approach and intention. The book ranges from Haitian revolutionaries' rendition of "La Marseillaise," to Cecil Taylor's synesthetic poetics, to the aporetic mien of the orisha Esu, to Billie Holiday's undulating arm. What is more, by way of her intense fascination with these sites of fantastic noise, Okiji brings our attention to a galaxy of intimacies that flash up in her experiments in array and correspondence. The nonsensuous standard Okiji cultivates in this musical and essayistic book, in concert with a host of theorists, musicians and artists, is as much a statement of non-citizenry as it is preparation for intoxicated gathering.
