Most Popular Books by Carolyn Meyer

Instructions and patterns for making a number of items by crocheting, knitting, weaving, and by macramé.

Visiting the island of Saint Lucia with his parents, pudgy, insecure, thirteen-year-old Sam finds a needed friend in Eulalia, and comes to share her interests and positive attitude toward life.

The life of artist Georgia O''Keeffe is revealed in this biographical novel — from her childhood when she decided to be an artist, through her art education in Chicago and New York, to her eventual rise to fame in the American Southwest. At the age of 12, Georgia O''Keeffe announced that she wanted to be an artist. With the support of her family, O''Keeffe attended boarding schools with strong art programs, and after graduating, went to live with an aunt and uncle in Chicago to attend the city''s highly regarded Art Institute. Illness forced O''Keeffe to leave Chicago, but once she''d recovered, her family scraped together funds to send her to New York to study at the Art Students League. When her family fell on hard times, she left without the degree she needed. Discouraged, but unwilling to give up her dream, O''Keeffe found a different path. She became an art teacher in schools in Texas and South Carolina, honing her own craft as she taught her students. O''Keeffe never gave up her dream, no matter what obstacles she encountered--she knew she was meant to be an artist.

Information on how masks have been used by various peoples over the centuries and directions for making similar masks out of easily available materials.

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.

Torn between youthful rebellion and their traditional heritages, two boys from very different cultures--one Amish, one Orthodox Jew--discover just how similar they really are.

Traces the history of spinning and weaving, patchwork and quilting, silversmithing, jewelry making, glassblowing, pottery, woodworking, and bookbinding and examines the lives of two or three artisans working in each craft.

In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister''s beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.

Award-winning author Carolyn Meyer''s ANASTASIA is back in print with a gorgeous new package! Anastasia is the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia. Anastasia is used to a life of luxury; her major concerns are how to get out of her detested schoolwork to play in the snow, go ice-skating, or have picnics. She wears diamonds and rubies, and every morning her mother, the princess, tells her which matching outfit she and her three sisters shall wear that day. It''s a fairy tale life -- until everything changes with the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany. As Russia enters WWI, hunger and poverty grows among the peasants, and soon they are not pleased with their ruler. While the czar is trying win a war and save their country, the country is turning on the royal family. When her father and the rest of the family are imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, suddenly Anastasia understands what this war is costing the people. In the pages of her diary, Anastasia chronicles the wealth and luxury of her royal days, as well as the fall from power, and her uncertain fate.

When seventeen-year-old Denny, who is black, falls in love with his white stepsister and her father throws him out, he drives cross-country to find his own father, whom he barely knows.

The author recounts her visit to South Africa where she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white, to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart by racial strife.

In today''s fast-paced, multi-tasking work environments, successful communication means more than getting the message across: it means getting noticed and getting results. Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student''s Guide offers practical, classroom-tested instruction not only in grammar but in the rhetorical techniques and persuasive strategies that students need to become effective writers and speakers. Its hands-on, skills-based approach uses models, organizational plans, workshops, discussion forums, quick-reference guides, and checklists to simplify the writing process while banishing writer''s block and easing fears about public speaking. Designed to make effective communication achievable in even the most demanding workplace environment, Communicating for Results is equally suitable for classroom use and personal desktop reference.

Get career ready with this best-selling introduction to business communication - with more sample documents than any other bookNow in its fifth edition, Communicating for Results offers practical, classroom-tested instruction in the rhetorical techniques and persuasive strategies that students need to become effective writers and speakers. Supplemented with abundant group and individual activities to reinforce keyprinciples and help students hone their skills, this invaluable text will teach students to communicate with confidence.

Drowning her unhappiness in luxurious parties and scandalous fashions when she falls short of impossible court standards and expectations, Marie-Antoinette incites the wrath of her impoverished French subjects and her disapproving mother. By the award-winning author of Doomed Queen Anne.

A study of the contemporary Yupik culture in an Alaskan village as seen through the eyes of a typical family.

Originally published in 2000 as: Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess.

In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.

The author relates her visit to Japan where she interviewed adults and children and recorded their feelings about life in a country experiencing drastic changes in lifestyle.

Describes the way of life of an Amish family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, including their work, beliefs, and customs.

Fourteen-year-old Win hopes to receive support and guidance in self-acceptance from his adult friend Elliott, despite another boy''s insistence that Elliott is homosexual.

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin''s Secret Service

A history of dairying around the world, particularly in the United States. Includes recipes using dairy products.

Includes index.Describes the history and important ingredients of bread-making. Includes customs and legends about bread and discusses breads popular in different countries.

A guide to woodworking with directions and diagrams for numerous projects ranging in difficulty from a cheese board to a desk.

Provides original versions of folk songs from more than twenty-five cultures. As children sing or listen to the traditional and revised folk songs their knowledge of other cultures is expanded.

Discusses the growth, cultivation, processing, and uses of coconuts. Includes thirty coconut recipes.

More interested in learning about Life than domestic arts, as her parents wish, fifteen-year-old Teddie learns perhaps a bit more about life than she''s bargained for during the summer of 1928.

The complicated lives of C.C.''s family and friends fall into new patterns the summer she is fifteen.

Follows the career of a group of rock and roll musicians trying to make it big.

Describes the equipment, stones, and procedures used in rock tumbling and gives instructions for making the polished stones into jewelry and other items.

Collection includes two draft typescripts of Carolyn Meyer''s young adult novel, Girl with Brush and Canvas: Georgia O''Keefe, American Artist. Both typescripts bear handwritten editorial emendations and are signed by the author and dedicated to the Ted Hipple Special Collection.