Sixteen-year-old July MacKenzie can hardly recognize her own life anymore. A few months ago, she was enjoying her urban lifestyle in Vancouver, going to school, hanging out with the same old friends she’d had for years. Now, when she steps out her back door, the only evidence of human existence she sees is an empty road, stretching off in the distance to...nowhere. It all happened so fast! Her mom was killed in a hit and run accident, and before she knew it Marie, her other parent, had sold the house, packed up and moved them out into the Interior. How could she leave everything behind like that? July could never make new friends. She’d never get used to the dark nights of the countryside. And she’d never, ever, stop missing her birth mom as long as she lived!

It's more than just a job: It's music, money and drinking beer with Zakk Wylde wearing a Mexican wrestling mask. Amy Sciarretto and Rick Florino distill years of real world experience into a practical, step-by-step career guide for anyone who wants to turn a love for music into a full-time job. Everything you need to know to go from the mosh pit, to backstage, to building your own music/entertainment start-up for little or no money. Amy and Rick pull back the curtain and show what really goes on behind-the-scenes in the highly competitive music industry. Learn how to launch an industry career from anywhere, and how to thrive in a changing, fast-paced enviornment. Includes more than twenty no-holds-barred interviews with Grammy winning, multi-platinum musicians and industry leaders. If you want a music industry job, if you want to start a magazine, a record label, a website, this book is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to the music industry teaches the secret reason record companies want you as an intern; 13 things that can kill your chances of making it in; how to use the internet to launch your career; how to attract the right kind of attention - and avoid the wrong kind; how to spot bands that will help your career, and much more, written by two industry professionals.

Veronica Walsh is 15, fashion-minded, fat, and friendless. Her summer job in the Consignment Corner section (Employees Only!) of a vintage clothing store is a dream come true. There Veronica can spend her days separating the one-of-a-kind gem garments from the Dollar-a-Pound duds, without having to deal with people. But when two outrageous yet charismatic salesgirls befriend her and urge her to spy on and follow the mysterious and awkward stock boy Veronica has nicknamed the Nail, Veronica’s summer takes a turn for the weird. Suddenly, what began as a prank turns into something else entirely. Which means Veronica may have to come out of hiding and follow something even riskier for the first time: her heart.

The ultimate guide to creating chibis!They populate manga with chunky bodies, oversized heads, and huge expressive eyes. They're schoolgirls and schoolboys, magical girls and mad scientists, fairies and fighter princesses, cyborgs and sci-fi secret agents, bikers and bad samurais, robots and rebel leaders. They've even got chubby pets and zany monster sidekicks! They're chibis!Excruciatingly cute, highly stylized, and beloved in all manga genres (fantasy, magical girls, shounen, anthro, sci-fi-, and more), without them, manga would barely exist. And now you can learn, step by step, how to draw virtually every chibi out there, how to "chibify" ordinary manga characters—and how to invent your very own designs! Covering facial expressions, those iconic manga eyes, costumes, character interaction, and story settings, Manga for the Beginner Chibis has it all.