Lights Action You

A birthday cake awaits candles one to ten, each different from the other. One by one, the candles make their entrances. With individual shapes and personalities, each candle must cooperate to make the cake the best that it can be. Getting along with each other can be difficult to do, but the candles all have it in them to see through their differences and respect each other. Will they cooperate and make peace in time to celebrate the child on their birthday? Lights! Action! You’re On! is a fun and colourful picture book that shows early readers that learning to cooperate with others, instead of thinking only about oneself, leads to respect and happiness for everyone – the greatest gift of all.

Everyone experiences pain and setbacks in their life. But life coaching can help you get back into the game of life by teaching you self-mastery over fears and beliefs that create obstacles to obtaining your goals. In Lights, Camera, Take Action, author and movie life coach Joe Williams-Nelson offers a guide to transform your life through movies. Throughout a yearlong period, Williams-Nelson details how watching one movie per week, reflecting on its message, journaling your thoughts and feelings, and following up with an action plan can help you gain control over your life. The movie "It's A Wonderful Life" will teach you to create a quiet space, to choose a title for your life plan, to choose a theme song for the year, and to find an inspirational motto for your life. "Jerry Maguire" will teach you to live with integrity, remain your authentic self, and create a mission statement. Lights, Camera, Take Action discusses the tools and principles used by some of the world's most successful people. It encourages you to follow along for fifty-two weeks while some of your favorite stars inspire you to create the life of your dreams.

A budding filmmaker with executive function disorder figures out how to become the director of her own life in this funny, relatable middle-grade novel from Erin Dionne. Hester Greene loves making movies. With her camera in hand, she can focus, make decisions, and have the control she lacks in life, where her executive function disorder (think extreme ADHD plus anxiety) sabotages her every move.But middle school is not a movie, and if her last-ditch attempt to save her language-arts grade--and her chance to pass eighth grade, period--doesn't work, Hess could lose her friends, her year, even her camera. It will take more than a cool training montage to get her life together, but by thinking outside the frame, she just might craft a whole new ending.Written partially in script form, with STOP/PAUSE/PLAY/REWIND moments throughout, this laugh-out-loud story will speak to any budding filmmaker, or unintentional troublemaker, in every act of their lives.

When her idol, handsome teen actor Brad Langley, comes to her town in the Florida Keys to shoot a movie, fourteen-year-old Jess gets a job as an extra and is shocked that he appears to be a temperamental brat.

Conquer your stage fright and advance your career with these pro tips for improving your on-camera and communication skills. On-camera insecurities and fears are common for many professionals and can keep them from growing their confidence and their business through the power of the media. Lights, Camera, Action gives practical advice and techniques to help achieve on-camera and communication skills to be a leader in today’s virtual world. After completing Lights, Camera, Action, you’ll know how to deliver a concise message and be confident and ready for various media platforms—from network TV interviews to podcasts and video marketing. You’ll also be ready to stand out in virtual meetings with powerful introduction and messaging skills. Get ready to utilize media opportunities—for professional growth and visibility for your business. “Her techniques gave me the confidence I needed to handle any on-camera situation.” —Michael Steele, former US counterterrorism official and national news security consultant

Watch out, middle school! Babymouse graduates from graphic novels in the first of the Babymouse Tales from the Locker series--now in paperback! For Babymouse, middle school is like a monster movie. You can never be sure who’s a friend and who’s an enemy, and the halls are filled with mean-girl zombies. Instead of brains, the zombies hunger for stuff—the perfect wedge sandals or the right shade of sparkly lip gloss—and they expect everyone to be just like them. But Babymouse doesn’t want to fit in—she wants to stand out! So she joins the film club to write and direct a sweeping cinematic epic. Will making the film of her dreams turn into a nightmare? Highly illustrated with black-and-white art throughout and a dozen or so comic pages, this is the perfect showcase for bestselling authors Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's signature humor. Middle school may never be the same!

"Look behind-the-scenes! This inside glimpse at movies and television features meetings with the production people, activities, quizzes and more"--Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.