When the siren on Sheet Rock Hills’ biggest fire truck breaks, it spells disaster for the town. Luckily Manny and the tools are on the case. With teamwork and cooperation, they get the siren back in shape and learn the value of community service. Young readers will have fun lifting the flaps to help Manny fix the siren and save the day.

In First Look and Find: Handy Manny, Handy Manny has lots of work today and is getting ready to visit his many customers who need help fixing things. Based on the popular Disney TV character, this Look and Find book for toddlers presents fascinating, action-packed scenes that will keep young children busy. Each two-page spread includes a scenario and provides an illustrated list of items for your child to find.

The town is counting on Manny and his tools to fix up Sheet Rock Hills’ community center before its grand reopening. But there are so many repairs to make and so much painting to do—will they have everything done in time? Hunt down the hidden lift-the-flap stickers to help Manny and the tools get the community center ready for the town’s big celebration!

Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.

Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Miranda Martinez shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted themselves into local politics and development to create change. She demonstrates how real people are effective as social forces amid large scale urban change and looks at the complexities and contradictions involved in transformations of urban neighborhoods. One of the most important contributions of this study is its focus on the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side and their struggle to sustain its Latinidad. It goes deeply into the ethnic and cultural significance at the neighborhood and personal level to show the contradictory meanings of gentrification to Puerto Ricans and others, and more importantly, the ways that the history and culture of Puerto Ricans are ignored, devalued, and erased. By going to the grassroots, this book vividly demonstrates how Puerto Ricans interact with the global and local trends involved in gentrification and how the struggles against displacement can alter the boundaries of the process.

An action-packed story based on the “Motorcycle Adventure” episode premiering on Disney Channel’s Family Movie Night. Manny and the tools are headed to Manny’s family reunion on their motorcycle, when Pat, Squeeze and Flicker wind up separated from them. Seems Pat has gone in search of his own family members and now finds himself in the back of a truck headed for a large hardware store outside of town. Manny races to catch up to the big truck, but encounters a number of obstacles along the way before finally reaching his trusty hammer, pliers and flashlight. Everyone reunited, they continue on to Manny’s Family Reunion where the tools meet Manny’s family and Pat learns that he doesn’t need to search elsewhere for family…his family is Manny and the other tools. Includes 2 Handy Manny Motorcycle Iron-Ons!

American Woodworker magazine, A New Track Media publication, has been the premier publication for woodworkers all across America for 25 years. We are committed to providing woodworkers like you with the most accurate and up-to-date plans and information -- including new ideas, product and tool reviews, workshop tips and much, much more.

American Woodworker magazine, A New Track Media publication, has been the premier publication for woodworkers all across America for 25 years. We are committed to providing woodworkers like you with the most accurate and up-to-date plans and information -- including new ideas, product and tool reviews, workshop tips and much, much more.

American Woodworker magazine, A New Track Media publication, has been the premier publication for woodworkers all across America for 25 years. We are committed to providing woodworkers like you with the most accurate and up-to-date plans and information -- including new ideas, product and tool reviews, workshop tips and much, much more.