William French Smith Bücher

Slap Shot is a middle-grade fiction novel for boys and girls between the ages of nine and thirteen. Trevor and Tanner Thibault are eleven-year-old identical twins who live for one thing in life; playing ice hockey. Now in the sixth grade, the two boys make a name for themselves as they play for the North County Pee Wee League. Trevor becomes outraged when Coach Messier asks a girl, Jillian McDonald, to join the team. As the Goalie for the team, Trevor feels that Jillian will steal the credit away from him. Will Trevor decide to boycott the hockey team altogether? More importantly, will Trevor be mature enough to understand that girls can play hockey on a boys' team, and play it just as well as a boy can? Slap Shot is an action packed sports novel sure to please any middle-grade child.

A must read for anyone considering a career in arts management A how-to manual on creative and effective leadership in the arts Moral support for people already engaged in this activity An inside view of the artistic environment A wealth of advice and hard-earned wisdom Laced with real-life anecdotes This book tells it like it is. This book is written for those who have headed an arts program, those who are presently doing so, those who think they'd like to do it, those who want to know more about the people who do this sort of thing, and for those who just need a good laugh. A complex organizational structure is like a bowl of Jell-O; you can't touch any part of it without setting the whole substance into reactive motion. People who need to do one thing at a time, and fin