Carrie Loses Her Nerve (Formac First Novels) [Paperback]

Lesley Choyce (Author), Mark Thurman (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Formac First Novels

Carrie has made a demo tape and wants to sing in her brother's band at an outdoor festival. Ernie lets her sing one song.

Full of confidence from her first public performance, Carrie goes off to her first day of school. All her friends are in another class and the girls in her homeroom make fun of her. When it's her turn to stand up and introduce herself, she is tongue-tied. How can it be that she can sing but she can't talk in front of a crowd? Her confidence crumbles.

Carrie Loses Her Nerve is a lively story that shows how we can do more than we know--if we only try.

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About the Author

LESLEY CHOYCE is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia. A former grand champion of the Men\s Open Canadian National Surfing Championships he surfs on the Atlantic coast year-round along with running a literary publishing house and teaching English at Dalhousie University. He also has a regular nationally-broadcast program on Vision TV called Off the Page with Lesley Choyce. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry fiction and non-fiction for adults and children including Carrie\'s Crowd and Go For It Carrie. His writing has earned him several awards including two Dartmouth Book Awards and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for the Young Adult novel Good Idea Gone Bad. Five of his previous Formac novels have received the Canadian Children\'s Book Centre\'s \"Our Choice\" Award. The Ottawa Citizen calls him \"a national treasure\". '

MARK THURMAN is a writer and ilustrator living half the year in Toronto and the other half in Owen Sound, Ontario. He has written and illustrated over 25 books for children, including the series Douglas the Elephant.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Formac (May 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887805914
• ISBN-13: 978-0887805912
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,423,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)