Books with author John Lester

Easy Keyboard and Piano Pieces is the perfect companion for those starting out to learn the keyboard or piano. The book uses simple, popular and familiar tunes which helps the player feel more comfortable as they learn the easy-to-play pieces. All notes have their letters printed above them in a large easy-to read font, to help those who are yet to learn how to read music. Also included are some blank music sheets, so you can have fun creating your own compositions. Easy Keyboard and Piano Pieces is the ideal first music book. Twinkle, Twinkle Are You Sleeping? Baa, Baa, Black Sheep The Wheels on the Bus London Bridge Good Morning to All I’m a Little Teapot Polly Put the Kettle On Ring a Ring of Roses The Grand Old Duke of York Old McDonald Oranges and Lemons Three Blind Mice Hickory, Dickory, Dock Hot Cross Buns Happy and You Know It The Muffin Man The Mulberry Bush Sing a Song of Sixpence Row Your Boat Kumbaya Itsy Bitsy Spider Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer Humpty Dumpty Girls and Boys Pop goes the weasel Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Nellie the Elephant Round the Mountain I Am the Music Man Write Your Own Composition

99 Tortuous, Tricky, Tough Tongue Twisters to keep you amused for hours. Challenge yourself and your friends to see who really is the tongue twister champion. Includes the ‘World’s Hardest Tongue Twister’, as researched by psychologists at MIT. Not only are you guaranteed fun and laughter, but tongue twisters have been proven to improve English pronunciation skills too, for both native speakers and foreign language students.

"A vibrant piece of fiction, pulsating with events and emotions…Seems destined to be read a hundred years from now." ―Martin Rubin, Los Angeles TimesEach house on Pepys Road, an ordinary street in London, has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. But each of the street’s residents―a rich banker and his shopaholic wife, a soccer prodigy from Senegal, Pakistani shop owners, a dying old woman and her graffiti-artist son―is receiving a menacing postcard with a simple message: "We Want What You Have." Who is behind this? What do they really want? In Capital, John Lanchester ("an elegant and wonderfully witty writer"―New York Times) delivers a warm and compassionate novel that captures the anxieties of our time―property values going up, fortunes going down, a potential terrorist around every corner―with an unforgettable cast of characters.

The purpose of this book is to provide a unique resource for teaching leadership and the 21st century skills needed by all students in order to become college and career ready adults. This book contains 27 action-oriented lessons & activities specifically designed to teach leadership and 21st Century Skills. The lessons and activities in this book are designed to be used in the classroom, in extracurricular programs, in after-school programs, at summer camps, and anywhere activity-oriented learning takes place.Most lessons and activities are geared toward students in grades 6-12, however; with simple modifications can be used with students of all ages, especially in grades 3-5.Basic teaching information is provided for each lesson and activity so the teacher can modify the material as needed for a specific group of students at a specific age or in a specific environment.Lessons and activities in this book are designed to help create 21st century learners who: Demonstrate independence. Build strong core academic content knowledge. Communicate effectively and creatively. Comprehend as well as critique. Solve problems and make decisions wisely. Value research evidence. Use technology and digital media strategically and capably. Understand other perspectives and cultures. Become effective, ethical, and knowledgeable leaders.

Who am I? A writer with a purpose. A storyteller at heart. A historian by nature. Most of all, before all the others. I am an explorer with a sense for adventure. You may call it a special sense, or even an extra sense. I refer to it as a sense of knowing there is more to learn than what we are taught. A sense of faith that allows one to be able to believe in their heart, even when the world may think you’ve lost your mind. A sense of responsibility to seek out the unexplained in order to share it in a way that’s understandable.

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year. From the bestselling author of Whoops! and How to Speak Money comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth.

From the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis. Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (“an elegant and wonderfully witty writer”―New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London―a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumor and her graffiti-artist grandson, Pakistani shop owners and a shadowy refugee who works as the meter maid, the young soccer star from Senegal and his minder―are receiving anonymous postcards reading “We Want What You Have.” Who is behind it? What do they want? Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment of extraordinary tension.

99 Tortuous, tricky, tough tongue twisters to keep you amused for hours. Challenge yourself and your friends to see who really is the tongue twister champion.Includes the ‘World’s Hardest Tongue Twister’, as researched by psychologists at MIT.Not only are you guaranteed fun and laughter, but tongue twisters have been proven to improve English pronunciation skills too, for both native speakers and foreign language students.To get you warmed up........Three sweet switched Swiss witches watch three washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switches.Which sweet switched Swiss witch watches which washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switch?

The National Health Service Speech, Languages and Communication Services department, have compiled a list of the most common words that young children learn to say first. Your child will need to hear these words lots and lots of times before they will attempt to say them. Learn to Talk - My First Words provides colourful images portraying all these first words, so you can help your child on those important first steps.Encourage your child by telling them what things are around the house, modelling the words. Ask them to find you things to help develop their understanding of the word, e.g. ‘get me your hat’, ‘where are your socks?’.

Following on from the global success of 99 Kids Jokes – Stampy Edition, Volume 2 has 99 even more hilarious jokes based on Stampy’s favourite game for you to enjoy.Why don’t pigs make good minecart drivers? Why did the snow golem call his wolf Frost? How did Stampy cure his headache? Find out the answers to these and many more hysterical jokes. You will never be able to play the game, without laughing out loud, ever again.