Pop

Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443124605
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Gordon Korman's acclaimed and timely YA novel explores the dangerous side of high school contact sports. Marcus is new in town and is hoping to make the championship high school football team, but it seems like a closed club, run by current star quarterback Troy. One day, while tossing the ball around in a park one day, Marcus meets Charlie, a man in his fifties who can play football like an old pro, which is exactly what he happens to be — a former NFL player and local celebrity. Charlie has boundless energy and coaches Marcus on his fear of being tackled, but as Marcus becomes more involved in this friendship with Charlie, it becomes painfully obvious to him, through the simplicity of Charlie's thoughts, that the long-term effects of the violent plays he suffered during his football glory days have taken their toll on Charlie. With wit and sensitivity, Gordon Korman tackles truths about high school sports, while delivering a poignant story about an unlikely friendship.

Pop Song

Author: Larissa Pham
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646220277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed). Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde—Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself. Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond, Pham meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these pages, but Pham's electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness. "Each of the essays in this debut collection reads like a mini-memoir . . . in which the author reflects on her experiences of young love, trauma, and transcendence through discussions of art and music . . . with an intimacy that is at once tender and expansive." —New York magazine

Switched on Pop

Author: Nate Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190056657
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Based on the critically acclaimed podcast that has broken down hundreds of Top 40 songs, Switched On Pop dives in into eighteen hit songs drawn from pop of the last twenty years--ranging from Britney to Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson to Kendrick Lamar--uncovering the musical explanations for why and how certain tracks climb to the top of the charts. In the process, authors Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan reveal the timeless techniques that animate music across time and space.

Pop!

Author: Jason Carter Eaton
Publisher: First Second Books
ISBN: 1626725039
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
An afternoon of popping soap bubbles takes a turn for the adventuresome as Dewey races to pop that one elusive bubble that keeps...getting...away! Full color.

The Story of Pop

Author: Editors of Caterpillar Books
Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
ISBN: 1645173615
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description
Dust off your mic and learn all about the history of pop music in this adorable board book! From Elton John and Madonna to Beyoncé and Prince—pop music breathes life into melodies and makes us want to dance! Hit the high notes along with the greats in this delightful baby book that introduces little ones to the pop stars that started it all! Parental Advisory: May cause toddlers to start putting on living room concerts.

The Real Pop Book - Volume 2

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781540039880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
(Fake Book). Almost 200 additional pop mainstays of modern repertoire laid out in the favored Real Book style. Songs include: Africa * All About That Bass * Beast of Burden * Blackbird * Change the World * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Dancing Queen * Despacito * Endless Love * Faith * Free Fallin' * Girls Just Want to Have Fun * Hello * Hit the Road Jack * I Wanna Dance with Somebody * I Will Survive * Jack and Diane * Last Kiss * Lean on Me * Man in the Mirror * Moves like Jagger * No Rain * Oye Como Va * Poker Face * Rehab * Royals * Stand by Me * Sweet Caroline * Take on Me * True Colors * Uptown Funk * What's Love Got to Do with It * With or Without You * You Are So Beautiful * You Can't Hurry Love * and more.

Soda Pop Head

Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
ISBN: 1937870863
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
"There goes Lester. Watch him fester. His ears start to fizz. He gets mad as a griz. His face turns red. He's a Soda Pop Head. You just never know when Lester will blow. His cap will go flying. If it hits you, you'll be crying, so you'd better stay away from Lester today!" His real name is Lester, but everyone calls him "Soda Pop Head." Most of the time he's pretty happy, but when things seem to be unfair his ears gets hot, his face turns red and he blows his top! Lester's dad comes to his rescue by teaching him a few techniques to "loosen the top" and cool down before his fizz takes control. Soda Pop Head will help your child control his/her anger while helping them manage stress. It's a must for the home or classroom.

Indigenous Pop

Author: Jeff Berglund
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816509441
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
"This book is an interdisciplinary discussion of popular music performed and created by American Indian musicians, providing an important window into history, politics, and tribal communities as it simultaneously complements literary, historiographic, anthropological, and sociological discussions of Native culture"--Provided by publisher.

Pop. 1280

Author: Jim Thompson
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316195871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women. Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister? With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems. In Pop. 1280, widely regarded as a classic of mid-20th century crime, Thompson offers up one of his best, in a tale of lust, murder, and betrayal in the Deep South that was the basis for the critically acclaimed French film Coup de Torchon.

ABC Pop!

Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670883295
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by illustrations in a pop art style.