Lessons cover listening with a purpose, predicting or preparing to listen, vocabulary, important details, main ideas, inferences, sequence of events, points of view, and specific information using the play as a catalyst
Penny Wade travels to Barcelona to perform in a concert with her orchestra. But the trip is not quite what she imagined. Her double bass goes missing and her boyfriend is acting very strangely. One night everyone is woken by screams and the orchestra manager is found dead on the street outside their hotel. Did he fall from the hotel window or was he pushed? And what has Penny's missing double bass got to do with it?
Dessen has built a well-deserved reputation for delicately depicting teen girls in turmoil. Her latest title showcases a socially awkward young woman who seeks solace in the comforting rigidity of academic success. Auden is about to start college in the fall, and decides to escape her control-freak professor mom to spend the summer with her novelist father, his new young wife, and their brand-new baby daughter, Thisbe. Over the course of the summer, Auden tackles many new projects...
Storytime is a brilliant story magazine packed with fun stories and gorgeous illustrations. Storytime Issue 23 brings you an exclusive extract from Roald Dahl’s The BFG to tie in with Steven Spielberg’s magical new film. Plus meet a fantastic fairy-tale fox, watch the Norse god Loki get up to no good, help a pixie find his missing laugh, discover why whales swim in the sea and meet two little ladies who sleep in a shell! It’s a phizz-whizzing issue, so don’t miss out!