From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Join the band! Karen’s class is taking music lessons, and all of the kids are getting instruments! Instead of a beautiful flute, Karen ends up with a big, old tuba. And she is not very happy about that! Karen’s tuba sounds like a duck with a bad cold. But she’s not giving up. Karen is going to be the best second-grade tuba player ever. Honk, honk!

This text is both about writing up qualitative research and is itself a qualitative study. The written reflections of students on the writing process and the interpretations and presentations of their findings provide a base of data which the authors have, in turn, analyzed and incorporated into their text. They have added accounts of their own experiences, and those of their colleagues and other published authors. All of these are woven into a theoretical framework that discusses them in detail.

Mander goes beyond television (which he proclaimed as being dangerous to personal health and sanity in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television) to critique our technological society as a whole, challenge its utopian promises, and track its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. "Will interest all readers concerned about our environment and quality of life".-- Publishers Weekly.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Karen Brewer, Big SisterEverybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the littlest sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that’s when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Welcome, Adelaide Sidney! There is a new student in Karen’s class. Her name is Addie. She is funny and very talkative. And she has cerebral palsy. Karen feels sorry for Addie. She thinks Addie has no friends just because she sits in a wheelchair. So Karen decides to make Addie be her best friend. But Karen won’t leave Addie alone. And now Karen might not be Addie’s friend at all!