Books with title How to Make a Maraca!

Have you had a bad day?Have things been zooming out of control from the moment you set your feet on the floor this morning?Are you ready for the day to be over?No problem! Just follow these instructions on how to make a night:Find a rope. Make a loop.Let it loose in space.Catch the sun. Pull it down. Find a safe, dark place.Peel the blue from the sky.Squirt some dye in a sink.Dunk the blue in the dye 'til it's black like ink.In this fantastic bedtime tale, a hectic day is put to bed, and a peaceful starry night fills the sky so everyone can rest. Linda Ashman and Tricia Tusa have created a magical world in which the sun and the moon cooperate with a resourceful young girl who is ready to put her busy day behind her and settle down to a good night's sleep -- so she can wake up to another exciting day tomorrow!

I m not a bad person. I ve simply come out of left field. I m a stray and, anyway, whatever I am, I m not it yet. I m still becoming. In fact, I d always believed that I was once a horse, because I loved to run down a hill. And Eddie was a fish. He was a swaggerer, if you know what I mean. Flimsy but loveable. Mannie is searching for the thing she doesn t yet know, but it s like a runaway kite pulling her heart forward. So she s leaving home. She s heading for the city with nothing but a long red dress, a strong hunch, and an unknown address in her pocket. As the day turns to night, Mannie makes a lot of discoveries and not exactly the ones she planned to make. With rare sensitivity, wisdom and humour, and a voice that's entirely her own, Martine Murray tells a bittersweet story about longing and losing and finding again.

A beautiful novel that captures the aching of a teenager ready to heal.It's dawn, on an empty road in the countryside. Empty, except for the girl in the long, red evening gown, standing next to a bicycle, and looking back at the home she's about to leave. Mannie's ready to start a new life and forget the terrible things that have happened here, but there are questions that need to be answered before she can let go. Questions about her elegant but unstable mother, her brother who's always overshadowed her, and his friend Harry Jacob, who just might be Mannie's boyfriend . . .