Books with author Michael Fogden

Charlie Peterson feels like a nobody. Tyler, Charlie’s younger brother, and his new baby sister get all the attention. Even at Charlie’s twelfth birthday party. Worst of all, Charlie’s parents are forcing him to join an after school activity and he’s plumb out of ideas. Luckily, Charlie’s grandfather (a local actor known as Freedom Man) and his inspirational language arts teacher point him in the right direction. Charlie finds himself cast as Goose Boy in the community production of Scrooge, despite a bad case of stage fright. He must now sing, dance and act in front of hundreds of people—all while trying not to make a fool of himself. If all goes well, he may earn the admiration of the girl of his dreams and finally start to feel like a somebody.STAGE SHY captures the humor, stress and excitement of performing live in this heartwarming story.

Charlie Peterson feels like a nobody. Tyler, Charlie’s younger brother, and his new baby sister get all the attention. Even at Charlie’s twelfth birthday party. Worst of all, Charlie’s parents are forcing him to join an after school activity and he’s plumb out of ideas. Luckily, Charlie’s grandfather (a local actor known as Freedom Man) and his inspirational language arts teacher point him in the right direction. Charlie finds himself cast as Goose Boy in the community production of Scrooge, despite a bad case of stage fright. He must now sing, dance and act in front of hundreds of people—all while trying not to make a fool of himself. If all goes well, he may earn the admiration of the girl of his dreams and finally start to feel like a somebody. STAGE SHY captures the humor, stress and excitement of performing live in this heartwarming story.

With 2014 marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, this anthology features poetry from the leading war poets, members of the armed forces involved in both wars, and contributions from civiliansA tribute to the triumph of the human spirit over the desolation and waste of both World Wars, this collection includes many of the famous works by the leading war poets, but also verse by soldier, sailor, and airmen poets, and by civilians. Works included are by Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, and Sidney Keyes, as well as those lesser known for such verse, among them Hardy, Kipling, Chesterton, D.H. Lawrence, and Ezra Pound. From the hellish visions and overwhelming grief of early writers, to the more private and personal reflections of the poets of World War II, this collection is a eulogy to them all.

Charlie Peterson feels like a nobody. Tyler, Charlie’s younger brother, and his new baby sister get all the attention. Even at Charlie’s twelfth birthday party. Worst of all, Charlie’s parents are forcing him to join an after school activity and he’s plumb out of ideas. Luckily, Charlie’s grandfather (a local actor known as Freedom Man) and his inspirational language arts teacher point him in the right direction. Charlie finds himself cast as Goose Boy in the community production of Scrooge, despite a bad case of stage fright. He must now sing, dance and act in front of hundreds of people—all while trying not to make a fool of himself. If all goes well, he may earn the admiration of the girl of his dreams and finally start to feel like a somebody.STAGE SHY captures the humor, stress and excitement of performing live in this heartwarming story.

Life can be cruel for a servant girl in 1850s London. Fifteen-year-old Abi is a scullery maid in Greave Hall, an elegant but troubled household. The widowed master of the house is slowly slipping into madness, and the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs. Cotton, punishes Abi without mercy. But there's something else going on in Greave Hall, too. An otherworldly presence is making itself known, and a deadly secret will reveal itself--a secret that will shatter everything Abi knows.

A Treasury of Fairy Tales is a collection of all time favorite children's tales retold for the modern child by Michael Foss. The stories of Hands Christian Anderson and the Brother Grimm, although classics of the genre, are often found to be rather long-winded for the modern child and the modern parent reading a bedtime story! In this volume, Michael Foss has re-written these stories so that none is longer than 2,000 word, while at the same time retaining all the original flavor of these old favourites. Classic stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella are accompanies in a Treasury of Fairy Tale by equally classic illustrations. Nearly every master of the form is represented, including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Niesen and Warwick Goble. The illustrations, most in full color, are reproduced to exacting standards which show them in their original beauty.