(Faber Piano Adventures ). Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural "friends at the piano" who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk, and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory "ACE" - Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically. View Helpful Introductory Videos Here

"Whoever saves a life, saves a world." (ancient Jewish maxim) Alouette's Song is a New Adult romantic action-adventure featuring two couples, one heroic and one support, each having a college-aged teen plus a teen accelerated into college or beyond. Themes from government conspiracy thrillers, inspirational fiction, and coming of age, are presented through a dramatic storytelling style infused with frequent humor and irony. There are even a few small paranormal elements: a sworn protector of humanity hiding behind someone else's eyes, a 6000-year old guardian spirit keeping safe a treasure that if used selflessly could save a people... and an inherited gift infused with generation after generation of sacred use from a Jewish village in Eastern Europe. Meet Dotty and Rick. Dotty is a professional violinist with a GED. Rick is a college sophomore, having graduated high school early to pursue interests that steer him away from an abusive home. While not a typical love-at-first-sight scenario they do get thrown together in a spectacular manner. Dotty gets mugged in a subway and falls onto the tracks of a train due to arrive in a minute, getting injured in the fall. Rick is considering suicide by the very same train, but the moment he decides to do so he hears Dotty's screams. He places Dotty's need to live above his own need to die. Their collision turns into a kiss that lights up the universe for both of them. Martin and Margie have been friends from childhood. Margie has autism but is brilliant enough to hide her condition at the price of extreme loneliness. Martin is the only one who accepts her for exactly who and what she is. Margie won't reveal her hopeless love for him because of this as she knows he's gay. But Margie stumbles onto an answer for them both... having to do with the power of Time. Martin takes Margie's discovery and along with his engineering talent utilizes both to build a spacecraft. Soon both couples are together and in way over their heads within the sea of stars; only ingenuity, compassion, valor, and prayer can get them safely home.

Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Third Grader Needs to Know What should your child learn in the third grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American third graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What Your Third Grader Needs to Know is designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with children. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the Core Knowledge Series. This edition, featuring a new Introduction, gives today’s generation of third graders the advantage they need to make progress in school and to establish an approach to learning that will last a lifetime. In this book you’ll discover • Favorite poems—old and new, from the traditional rhyme “For Want of Nail” to Lewis Carroll’s whimsical poem “The Crocodile” • Literature—including Native American stories, African folktales, European fairy tales, classic myths from ancient Greece, stories from ancient Rome, and more • Learning about language—the basics of written English, including sentence structure, parts of speech, and a first look at writing a report or letter • World and American history and geography—journey down the great rivers of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, visit ancient Rome, and experience the earliest days of America with the Pilgrims and Native Americans • Visual arts—an introduction to masterworks by Rembrandt, Henri Matisse, Mary Cassatt, and others, with full-color reproductions and fun, do-it-yourself activities • Music—the fundamentals of appreciating, reading, and making music, plus great composers, instruments, and sing-along lyrics for songs such as “Bicycle Built for Two” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” • Math—stimulating lessons ranging from counting money to solving division problems, numbers through 100,000, graphs, and the metric system • Science—fascinating discussions on the natural world, the cycles of life, the human body and its systems, and the environment, with accompanying activities and stories about famous scientists such as Copernicus and Alexander Graham Bell