Most Popular Books by Alison Hart

Girls are able select their own endings in this interactive story that takes place on the campus of Innerstar University! Readers can imagine themselves as the main character, a girl who rides horses at the stable but steers clear of competition. Whenever there''s an audience, her confidence heads for the hills. When she''s invited to ride a spirited quarter horse in the next event, she has some tough choices to make. Will she find her confidence and climb on? With more than 20 different endings, girls will enjoy this book again and again to see how different decisions change the story. Plus, each book comes with a secret access code to unlock additional endings online.

In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.

Includes an excerpt from the next Horse Diaries book, "Koda."

Lauren suspects that one of the seniors is abusing her horse, so sheand Andie try to catch Melaine in the act.

- Fun groups party game for 9 players (8 kids + 1 adult) - Girls get to dress up & solve a mystery themselves by reading a script & clues based on the characters in AG''s Samantha stories. - Same genre as the "murder mystery dinner party" but for kids age 8-12. Very few retail market competitors in this age range. - Everything is included: invitations & envelopes, scripts, clues, name tags, and detailed instructions for the host. What''s Included: - 9 party invitations with envelopes - 9 character cards - 9 scripts, one for each character (8 kids and one adult) - 7 Secret clues and 30 hobo code signs - Party planner for adult - Name tags

Andie can''t wait for the upcoming Parents'' Weekend to show off Magic, a horse she hopes her father will buy for her, but a freak accident convinces Andie''s father that Magic is too dangerous.

In 1864, Samuel, a thirteen-year-old slave, works as a horse groomer on a plantation and dreams of becoming a famous jockey, but when he gets a chance to prove himself in the horse-racing world, he learns that his father has enlisted as a Union soldier, so he is torn between joining his father to fight for freedom or pursue his life-long dream.

Abstract: Three dances, On This Day, Panties and Pathologies, and Naked Spotlight Silver were choreographed and performed in fulfillment of the requirements to complete an M.F.A. degree in dance. The performances took place at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. On This Day premiered October 2012, Panties and Pathologies premiered March 2013, and Naked Spotlight Silver premiered October 2013. This thesis examines how each project investigates choreographic approaches used in concert dance to communicate issues of gender and sexuality as well as participate in a discourse on identity politics. The three dance pieces attempted to confront themes of marriage equality, representation and the marketing of femininity, and queer identity representations in performance. Each piece was unique in its methodologies and served as an explorative approach to political communication and artistic development.

Mary Beth Finney starts at boarding school and is surprised how all her classmates are such serious riders. How does she keep her new friends when because of a previous accident, she has such a great fear of horses?

During a visit to her grandparents'' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.

Andie Perez delights in being thrown out of boarding schools and she intends to do the same at Foxhall Academy until she is challenged to save a wild young thoroughbred horse from being destroyed.

Branding research has begun to explore how loved brands are included in consumers'' self-concepts. Such self-brand overlap can enable consumers to react to brand-relevant situations as though they were self-relevant. Synthesizing theories of self-other overlap and perspective taking, self-enhancement and self-protection, as well as brand portfolios, I articulate how self-serving biased cognitions can influence consumer attitudes and behaviours toward entire brand portfolios via the consumer''s self-brand overlap with a single portfolio member. Study 1 was designed to investigate how self-serving biases can positively affect consumer evaluations of multi-brand portfolios of which the consumer''s focal brand is a member. Potential reasons for the resulting inconclusive findings are discussed and prospects for future research are suggested. Study 2 was designed to investigate consumer interpretations of brand portfolio restructuring. Results indicate that consumers who have a high degree of self-brand overlap can interpret such brand portfolio management decisions as a personal rejection of themselves when the brand is eliminated, and personal acceptance or validation when their brand is retained after an elimination threat. Study 3 was designed to investigate the behavioural aftermath of such inferences. Partial results and prospects for future research are offered. Potential implications for brand managers and marketing theory are discussed.

It''s my first day back at school after the holidays and I''ve already got three burning questions: 1) When is my family''s disgusting diet going to end? 2) How will I finish my group project on time? 3) Why is my best friend Alex suddenly not talking to me? If that''s not bad enough, the classroom is overrun with lizards. At least things can''t get worse, right?

Kids will leap like grasshoppers at this imaginative pop-up presentation of insect facts. Kids will discover what they would be able to do if they were as strong, fast and powerful as five different bugs. Clever comparisons between bugs and kids, amazing bug facts, and much-larger-than-life pop-outs will delight young readers who are buggy about bugs. Full color.

Sports sponsorship gained prominence in the 1970s in the United States (U.S.). According to Benoît Seguin, at the University of Ottawa, Canada, as television and radio licenses increased in the 1970s, competition between advertisers to attract consumers attention was fierce. As originally coined by Tony Meenaghan in the International Journal of Advertising in 1991, sponsorship is defined as an investment in cash or kind, in an activity, person or event (sponsoree, or athlete being sponsored), in return for access to the exploitable commercial potential associated with that activity, person or event by the investor (sponsor). According to sports sponsorship expert, IEG, what originally began as a means to attract advertisers across the four major U.S. professional sports leagues and their teams is now an industry of over $2.46 billion.