When Raven rebels against the school authorities, she finds herself allied with the wrong kind of friends, and then she must decide whether to rejoin her old cirle of friends or remain with the new group.

When the principal of Baysidedecides to make all the students wear uniforms, Raven organizes a protest. Butwhen the students don’t stand behind her, Raven finds herself in detention withthe only people who did: the school bullies. Raven decides that she’s better offhanging out with the “bad” crowd than with friends who won’t back her up. Plus,while spending the afternoon at a spa, Raven disguises herself as a yogateacher to get an autograph from her favorite pop singer.

Raven wants everything to beperfect for the opening of her father’s new restaurant, but she’s drivingeveryone crazy with her bossy demands. When Raven has a vision of Eddie andChelsea together, she starts to suspect that they are dating behind her back.To confirm her suspicions, she disguises herself as a plumber and spies on themat Chelsea’s house. Plus, when a passing comet temporarily gives Eddie psychicvisions, he uses his new power to make himself more popular at school.

Raven and Eddie's friendship is seriously strained when Raven is named co-host of Eddie's campus radio show. When Raven accidentally makes Eddie sound like a fool on the air, Eddie quits!

With Mr. and Mrs. Baxter away at a wedding, it’s up to Ravento be the responsible one. So when Cory decides to throw a party, Raven says“no.” Reverend Mattson is stopping by to drop off a recommendation letter forRaven, who has applied to the Fashion Institute, and she wants to impress him.Cory tricks Raven into having the party after all, and the Reverend shows upright in the middle of it. Can Raven straighten everything out before theirparents return? Plus, when Nana Loretta comes to visit, Raven must hide herpsychic abilities from her, and endure a tea party with the White Glovesociety.

Chelsea learns that Devon’s father is getting remarried andmoving the entire family to Seattle, but Devon is too scared to tell Raven.Chelsea breaks the news to her best friend, who rushes to the wedding chapel,but it’s too late! Devon tells Raven that even though it will be hard to move,he wants his dad to be happy. She agrees and says a sad goodbye to him. Plus,Raven sticks up for a foreign exchange student, Tendaji, when he’s being pickedon at school, and almost ends up marrying him!

The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia provides 360 brief biographies of African American film and television acPER010000tresses from the silent era to 2009. It includes entries on well-known and nearly forgotten actresses, running the gamut from Academy Award and NAACP Image Award winners to B-film and blaxpoitation era stars. Each entry has a complete filmography of the actress's film, TV, music video or short film credits. The work also features more than 170 photographs, some of them rare images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

There are two prose dialogues in Old English, consisting together of some 109 questions and answers. These questions are related to the medieval Latin Joca Monachorum and Adrian and Epictus dialogues and deal with various and quite diverse topics. Some questions concern scripture and Christian tradition – 'How tall was Adam,' 'where did he get his name,' and 'what are the eight parts of which he was made.' Some questions are scientific or quasi-scientific – 'Where does the sun go at night,' 'what is the number of birds.' Others concern riddles or proverbial lore. Together they are the early medieval equivalent of the Guinness Book of Records, a gathering of odd facts and curious information designed to amuse and entertain. This edition from the British Library manuscripts provides translations of these dialogues, and, more important, traces the sources of these sometimes rather curious ideas. The book will be useful to specialists and students concerned with Old English and medieval literature in general. The texts themselves are of some importance and the illustrative material gathered here is relevant to a wide range of problems. Yet the book is also intended, as were the originals, to amuse and instruct a wider audience, a new age of curious readers.

Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes are portrayed in media targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds, particularly female characters, over the last twenty-five years. The book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable giants Disney Channel and Nickelodeon because of their popularity and ubiquity. It provides extensive examples and alternative interpretations of the shows’ tropes and themes, particularly for those who are unfamiliar with the genre. The first section explores common tweencom tropes, focusing on different themes that are prevalent throughout the series. The second section includes a discussion of the big picture of how tropes and themes give insight into the female characters portrayed in the popular tweencom programming, as well as advice to parents and educators.