Chloe Taylor

A tween fashion designer’s blog garners A-list attention in this chic start to a new middle grade series. Over the summer, fashion-loving Zoey Webber gets the best news ever: Her middle school is getting rid of uniforms! There’s just one problem. Zoey has sketchbooks full of fashion designs, but nothing to wear! So with a little help from her best friends Kate and Priti, she learns to make her own clothes. She even begins to post her fashion design sketches online in a blog. That’s how the Sew Zoey blog begins, and soon it becomes much more. Zoey’s quirky style makes her a bit of a misfit at middle school, but her Sew Zoey blog quickly gains a dedicated following. Real fashion designers start to read it! Yet even as her blog takes off, Zoey still has to deal with homework, crushes, and P.E. class. And when the principal asks her to design a dress for the school’s fashion-show fund-raiser, Zoey can’t wait to start sewing! But what will happen when her two worlds collide?

Ready to Wear

Zoey always tries to keep an open mind about clothes. Can she do the same for people, too? Includes “Sew Zoey” blog posts and fashion illustrations. In the eleventh book in the Sew Zoey series, Zoey Webber thinks she’s helping when she gives advice to a boy who has a crush on her best friend Kate. Zoey tells him to wear a soccer jersey from Kate’s favorite team, assuming that Kate will like him better if he’s into sports. Kate finds out and feels betrayed that Zoey thinks she is so closed-minded. Meanwhile, Zoey helps her new friend Sean start a fashion club at school, promising to allow anyone to join. But when someone unexpected shows up to the first club meeting, Zoey struggles to stay true to her ideals and keep her focus on the clothes. Could Zoey be the one who is closed-minded, after all?

Clothes Minded

As the school year begins, Zoey is asked for fashion advice from her frenemy, her friend Priti shows up to school with a new look, and Kate, dealing with a swimming injury, wants to spend her free time with Zoey.

A Change of Lace

Spending her final days of summer vacation enjoying beach trips, concerts and sewing projects, Zoey works on a surprise for her brother's rock band while struggling with her friends' problems, missing fabric swatches and a surprise visitor. Simultaneous.

Swatch Out!

While trying to launch an online store, Zoey promises to create special outfits for friends and finds herself overwhelmed when things do not work as she expected.

A Tangled Thread

It’s Zoey’s first collection…of books, that is! Collect the first four Sew Zoey books in this stylish boxed set that comes with a fashion-themed charm bracelet! Fashion’s a snap compared to middle school: Just ask Zoey Webber! When Zoey’s school gets rid of uniforms, it’s the best news ever for a girl who loves clothes. Then Zoey’s best friends, Kate and Priti, encourage her to sew her own clothes and start a fashion design blog! The Sew Zoey blog takes off, quickly putting Zoey on the A-list in the fashion world…but will things unravel at middle school? Whether she is teased or is a trendsetter, Zoey’s friends always help her remember to take things one stitch at a time! This deluxe boxed set includes Ready to Wear; On Pins and Needles; Lights, Camera, Fashion!; Stitches and Stones; and a fashion-themed charm bracelet!

Ready to Wear; On Pins and Needles; Lights, Camera, Fashion!; Stitches and Stones

The Sew Zoey Collection Books 1-4 (Charm Bracelet Inside!)

As Zoey prepares for a sewing contest, she realizes her friendships are also in need of tailoring. In the second book in the Sew Zoey series, things are going great for Zoey on the fashion front: She meets a real designer who tells her she should enter a big sewing contest, and she finds out that her idol, Daphne Shaw, is a fan of her blog! But off the runway, Zoey’s having friend trouble times two. First her best friend Kate gets her braces off—and starts getting a lot of attention from boys, including Zoey’s crush, Lorenzo. Is she still the same sweet Kate on the inside? Then Zoey’s newest friend, Libby, thinks Zoey is friends with her only because her aunt is one of the contest judges. Zoey thought fashion emergencies were tough…but compared to friendship emergencies, they’re a cinch. How can she prove that she’s friends with Libby for the right reasons and fix her relationship with Kate? In a way that is totally Zoey!

On Pins and Needles

Discover how modern technology works all around us--a hands-on approach for kids Bluetooth brings beautiful music to your ears--but how, exactly? Using technology and building with technology are two different skill sets--and a twenty-first-century kid will need to understand both. The Big Book of Invisible Technology helps children--ages 8 to 12--learn how things work for kids in fun, hands-on ways. From the invisible Internet to driverless cars and drones, this book shows you how things work for kids, using step-by-step experiments. Then apply your knowledge and learn how you may, one day, bring real and important change to our lives. Are you ready to solve some of Earth's biggest challenges with technology? The future needs you. In this book on how things work for kids you'll discover: Talk like a pro--Important tech-related words are highlighted in bold along with their definitions, in a virtual dictionary of how things work for kids. Hands-on--Nine applied experiments will inspire you to learn while doing--like taking apart and safely rebuilding an old keyboard or remote control. Think bigger--Discover how to brainstorm (meaning to openly generate ideas individually or as a group) as you plan ways to positively influence our planet. Take a step toward being the next great scientist, engineer, or tech genius when you learn how things work for kids.

A Look at How Things Work for Kids

The Big Book of Invisible Technology

Zoey is excited about her summer plans that include a chance to meet her favorite designer and her first time at camp.

Knot Too Shabby!

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored.

A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century and has been instrumental in shaping the study of Gender, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory. But Foucault’s writing can be a difficult book to grasp as Foucault assumes a familiarity with the intellectually dominant theories of his time which renders many passages obscure for newcomers to his work. The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault’s The History of Sexuality offers a clear and comprehensive guide to this groundbreaking work, examining: The historical context in which Foucault wrote A critical discussion of the text, which examines the relationship between The History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and The Care of The Self The reception and ongoing influence of The History of Sexuality Offering a close reading of the text, this is essential reading for anyone studying this enormously influential work.

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