This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support, and bolster the morale of one of music's most important back-up sections: music parents. Within these pages, more than 150 veteran music parents contribute their experiences, reflections, warnings, and helpful suggestions for how to walk the music-parenting tightrope: how to be supportive but not overbearing, and how to encourage excellence without becoming bogged down in frustration. Among those offering advice are the parents of several top musicians, including the mother of violinist Joshua Bell, the father of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the parents of cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and those of violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. The book also features advice from music educators and more than forty professional musicians, including Paula Robison, Sarah Chang, Anthony McGill, Jennifer Koh, Jonathan Biss, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Marin Alsop, Christian McBride, Miguel Zenón, Stephanie Blythe, Lawrence Brownlee, Kelli O'Hara, as well as Joshua Bell, Alisa Weilerstein, Wynton Marsalis, Anne Akiko Meyers, and others. The topics they discuss span a wide range of issues faced by the parents of both instrumentalists and singers, from how to get started and encourage effective practice habits, to how to weather the rough spots, cope with the cost of music training, deal with college and career concerns, and help young musicians discover the role that music can play in their lives. The parents who speak here reach a unanimous and overwhelming conclusion that music parenting is well worth the effort, and the experiences that come with it - from sitting in on early lessons and watching their kids perform onstage to tagging along at music conventions as their youngsters try out instruments at exhibitors' booths - enrich family life with a unique joy in music.

Product Description: Learning to play an instrument can be fun and, at times, frustrating. This lively, accessible book helps young people cope with the difficulties involved in learning a new instrument and remaining dedicated to playing and practicing...read more

Product Description: This book tells of Sarah Keys Evans, an unsung Civil Rights hero. As a young woman in the Women's Army Corps in 1952, she did what Rosa Parks did-three years before Rosa Parks. Sarah Keys Evans kept standing up for her rights until victory was won...read more

Product Description: A completely charming discussion of allowances communicates some of life's important skills in a way that is fun and practical.-Kirkus Reviews"Well worth the investment."-School Library JournalThis lively book answers families' questions about allowances: How much to give? When to start? How to set it up? How to keep kids from blowing it? Written for kids, but vital for parents, the book's advice comes from the Allowance All-Star Squad, 166 kids who have tackled tons of allowance snags-with great results! Their parents chime in, too, as do financial and psychology experts...read more

Musicians from many different sections of the New York Philharmonic describe how they became involved in music as kids, in a title that includes advice and practice tips for kids.

The author of Yankee Doodle Gals reviews the history of American women's involvement in the Armed Forces, from the Revolutionary War and Civil War to the present involvement in the Persian Gulf.

Filled with never-before-seen photographs and drawn from firsthand accounts, a thrilling look at the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft, known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots (the WASPs), details their many wartime missions and their extraordinary courage, strength, and solidarity. (view table of contents)

Tips from 300 top high school students for successfully handling homework and preparing for tests.

Shows how disagreements develop and tells how to avoid arguments and fights, and how to talk it out through negotiation

Tips from 300 top high school students for successfully handling homework and preparing for tests.

Tips from 300 top high school students for successfully handling homework and preparing for tests.

Discusses the history and background of apples, berries, cherries, citrus, figs, grapes, mangos, melons, peaches, pears, and plums, and shares recipes for each fruit

Provides recipes for salads, soups, canapes, appetizers, strudles, sandwiches, and vegetable, meat, poultry, and seafood dishes that can serve as a first course

Describes a variety of salad greens and how they are grown, recommends oils, vinegars, and seasonings, and shares recipes for vinaigrettes and a variety of tossed salads