Bøger af Mary Ann Loesch

The moment teenage voodoo queen Joan Renault holds the Golden Apple of Journalism in her hand, its deadly power silently infiltrates her life. But this apple is more than just a token of high school pageantry. It's toxic. Poisonous. And it just might kill all the people Joan loves. This is Book 2 in the Bayou Myth series.

As a sixteen year old voodoo queen in the making, Joan Renault just wants to be like all the other girls in the small town of Monte Parish, Louisiana-obsessed with boys and swamped with social lives. If the other kids would quit calling her "hoodoo hag," she might have a small shot at normality. It would also help if Joan's weekend outings with her secret crush, Dave, weren't always being interrupted by her dead Grandmere, the legendary Marie Laveau. After all, it's hard to make out with your best friend when your grandmother is watching! But when you come from a long line of voodoo priestesses with dried gator heads decorating the wall of their huts, normal doesn't come easily. When Joan witnesses the brutal sacrifice of a child to a tree Druid, she learns her Grandmere's scandalous past has come back to haunt those living in the present. Hera, a vengeful voodoo priestess is determined to use the residual energy of Pandora's Box to revive a sleeping voodoo god and declare war on the descendants of Marie Laveau, especially Joan. Suddenly, Greek myths are being re-enacted all over town, and Joan has her hands full trying to sort it all out. With the approach of Samedi's Day-the voodoo day of resurrection-Joan must learn to accept her destiny in order to stop the approaching threat to her family and friends.

Chaos. The very word can send a shiver down the back of even the most seasoned educator. But what if you could combine creativity and chaos together? What if you could provide your elementary students with learning experiences that were fun, educational, and had a dash of theatre, too? Then you've got all the elements of Creative Chaos. These lessons are designed to not only train arts educators and general education teachers in methods to integrate the arts into core curriculum, but also to provide ways for students to become creative problem solvers using elementary theatre techniques.