From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! The playground is covered with snow. The kids in Ms. Colman's class are busy building snow forts and throwing snoballs. It is fun at first. But then the snowball fights turn mean. Ian does not like the snow war. He wants it to stop. Can Ian and the snow war all by himself?

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's Class!Ms. Colman's class is putting on a play. everyone is excited about Alice in Wonderland. Especially Leslie Morris. Leslie loves to act. She would be the perfect Alice. But then Karen is chosen for the part of Alice. Karen is a big show-off. Leslie hates the class play now. Maybe she can ruin it...

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! When Tammy beats her twin, Terry, in the school readathon, the sisters who were once so identical begin to demonstrate their differences and get concerned . . . until they are visited by another twin in their lives -- Grandma.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's Class!Natalie Springer likes school a lot. But not when the kids call her a baby. Natalie has a chance to do something important in Ms. Colman's class. Her teddy bear is going on a trip around the world! Will Natalie be brave enough to send her teddy so far away?

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class!A famous author is going to visit Ms. Colman's class. He is Ricky's favorite author. Ricky can't wait for Author Day. But then Ricky makes a big mistake in class. Now Ricky doesn't want to have Author Day at all.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class!It is the first day of school. All the kids in Ms. Colman's class can't wait. Except Nancy Dawes. Nancy doesn't have a best friend. Her friend Karen Brewer is not in her grade. Nancy doesn't have a pet, either. And Ms. Colman's class is having pet day! Can the kids in Ms. Colman's class help Nancy?

In Where the Hell Is Turtle Creek? author Barrie Bartulski presents his honest and sometimes humorous memoir of his childhood in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. He paints a portrait of a happy, unique childhood complete with mean teachers and close buddies. These stories capture the adventures of a group of children, from mixed ethnic and religious backgrounds, growing up in the 1940s and 50s in Turtle Creek, a small town in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Most of the stories take place around Turtle Creeks Saint Colmans Catholic elementary school and the public junior and senior high school. The discipline administered by a few of the Sisters of Mercy at Saint Colmans School was overly aggressive and would not happen today with the special training that teachers now receive. Bartulski shares it to illustrate an area that was much on the minds of children in those days. The Catholic Church has since banned all paddlingwonderful news but a little late for him and his pals. He has lovingly captured a lost time, the time when a boy could be carefree and be mostly concerned about what games he and his pals were going to play that day. They are memories to be cherished and experienced time and time again, winningly recounted in Where the Hell is Turtle Creek?

From one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Here is Valentino, "the Sheik," who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and "Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about. An absolutely essential text for anyone seriously interested in movies, and, with more than three hundred photographs, as much a treat to look at as it is to read.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! Hannie is having problems with Karen and Nancy. But Hannie thinks she can fix things. She is going to get cool Halloween costumes for all the kids in Ms. Colman's class. Then their class will win prizes. And Karen and Nancy will make up with Hannie. But the Costumes never come! Has Hannie ruined Halloween for everyone?

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.