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Mary Rodgers's Freaky Friday has been making middle graders laugh aloud for more than forty years. Now the original body-swapping tale has a brand-new repackaged cover just in time for the upcoming spin-off movie sequel, Freakier Friday. Annabel Andrews is tired of her mother telling her what to do. Finish her homework, clean her room--and worst of all, be nice to her little brother. If she were an adult, Annabel would do anything she wanted. She'd watch TV all day and eat marshmallows for breakfast. Then, one freaky Friday, Annabel's wish comes true. She wakes up in her mother's body . . . and quickly finds out that being an adult is not as easy--or as fun--as she thought!
Srebnick uses the famous, unsolved murder of a Manhattan woman in 1841 as a window into urban culture in the mid-nineteenth-century.
A quote from the novel, motion picture, and theatrical musical, "Once Upon a Mattress." The play was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Princess and the Pea." *** This journal alternates between 9 LINED pages for writing and 1 BLANK page for sketching throughout - Size 5.2" x 0.2" x 8" with 110 pages total. *** It can be used for show notes, as a simple diary, a mini class notebook, prayer journal, a place to write goals, dreams, and milestones, and more. Make the book even more special by tucking tickets, a gift card, or a little cash in the folds. When you want to wrap something that is more personal than a greeting card, this book does the trick. Check ...
'Mary careens across these pages with her usual wit, wisdom and honesty' - Julie Andrews 'Having had the pleasure of meeting Mary Rodgers personally its so wonderful to read her story in her own words . . . I couldn't put it down' - Elaine Page '[A] thoughtful chronicle of one woman's journey through experience to understanding - and a lot of fun to read' - The Washington Post 'Pure pleasure . . . jaw-droppingly shocking' - Daniel Okrent, The New York Times 'Mary Rodgers's book has a humour and honesty that is very rare in entertainment memoirs'. - Sir Tim Rice The wonderfully funny, candid and outrageous NYT bestselling memoirs of Mary Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and 'a wo...
A boy and his father literally find themselves in each other's shoes.
Hadley is pretty much the model student: straight As, perfect attendance, front row in class. So what if she's overstressed and overscheduled: She's got school covered. (Life—not so much.) Ms. Pitt is the kind of teacher who wants you to call her by her first name and puts all the chairs in a circle and tells her students to feel their book reports. Hadley wishes Ms. Pitt would stick to her lesson plan. Ms. Pitt wishes Hadley would lighten up. So when Hadley and Ms. Pitt find themselves switched into each other's bodies, the first thing they want to do is switch right back. It takes a family crisis, a baffled principal, and a (double) first kiss to help them figure out that change can be pretty enlightening. Even if it is a little freaky!
This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie′s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree that, with her enormous range of lifestyle `accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog t."
Two generations worth of practical and imaginative ideas about the house, decorating, entertaining, living with children, husbands--and oneself.
A Study Guide for Mary Rodgers's "Once Upon a Mattress," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.