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Hard Times for Jake Smith

Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571316493
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Hard Times for Jake Smith written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1935 and from a child's eye view, the hard times of the Depression era are becoming more and more real. Each day, coming home from school, there is something else missing. First the sow pig, then the cow, then the truck. On one wrenching day the beloved hunting dog is sold. Finally the whole family packs up in the car and leaves--the children wonder where, but their parents are silent. Suddenly, the car stops at the edge of the road and Mother leans into the back seat, giving Mary Jake a handkerchief with something tied inside and the instructions to walk down the path into the forest, take the LEFT fork into town, and present the handkerchief at the stone house. So begins the adventure of a girl who chooses her own in path (neither left fork nor right), dyes herself in a stump full of walnut-colored water and disguises herself as a boy. "Jake" Smith soon meets Miz Bennett and hires on to help with her garden and animals. In this rags-to-riches story, rich with descriptions of Alabama during the Depression a strong female character copes with abandonment with courage and resilience.

Hard Times for Jake Smith

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ISBN 13 : 9780756956660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea

Author : John Thomson
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571316578
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea written by John Thomson and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Donovan's summer with his aunt and uncle on Puget Sound becomes a test of his own convictions when he suspects his uncle's involvement in a local racist group.

Wish

Author : Jake Smith
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1414395728
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Wish written by Jake Smith and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James McConnell’s one wish is that his nine-year-old son will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Then he and his wife, Emily, receive news they’ve dreaded: Aaron’s cancer has relapsed. As the family steels themselves for a draining treatment regimen in yet another hospital, Aaron receives the gift of a lifetime—a personal visit from one of his favorite professional baseball players—and the chance to make a bold request, his wish: to see his dad play in one major league game. A former college standout, James fears he doesn’t have the talent it takes, even for one game, and that he’ll miss what could be Aaron’s precious last weeks. Yet how can he refuse his dying son’s wish? Poignant and triumphant, Wish is the story of a father’s love, a family’s perseverance, and the miracles that can happen when you believe in the impossible.

Eugene Allen Smith's Alabama

Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588382435
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Eugene Allen Smith's Alabama written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871 when the University of Alabama reopened after its destruction by Federal troops, Eugene Allen Smith returned to his alma mater as professor of geology and mineralogy. Until his death in 1927, this gifted man devoted his abundant energy and his stout heart to the welfare of the school and the state. After persuading the legislature to appoint him state geologist in 1873, he spent his summers enduring chills, fevers, and verbal abuse as he searched for industrial raw materials that could bring about better lives for destitute Alabamians. Traveling in a mule-drawn wagon, he recorded detailed observations, botanical and geological discoveries, and mineral analyses in his journal. He loaded the wagon with specimens for the university museum he dreamed of creating some day. He inventoried industries that had failed or been destroyed, judging whether they were worth salvaging. Interspersed with this information were pithy comments on people he met, frustrations he dealt with, historical notes, and poetic descriptions of rocks and creeks and mountains, giving a vivid picture of Alabama in transition. What he accomplished, against monumental odds, became the catalyst that transformed Alabama from an aimless and poverty-stricken agricultural state to an industrial giant to be reckoned with. How he accomplished what he did, with very little support and hardly any money, gave this diminutive and very human man a stature of mythic proportions in the history of the university and the state. The story of Little Doc, as told in Eugene Allen Smiths Alabama, is drawn from many sources: Smiths transcribed field notes, countless numbers of letters he received and the carbon copies of his replies, his published reports over a period of fifty years, wills, genealogical records, histories of the st

Behind the Bedroom Wall

Author : Laura E. Williams
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318267
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Bedroom Wall written by Laura E. Williams and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1942. Korinna, a thirteen-year-old girl in Germany, is an active member of the local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by dealing with what he calls the “Jewish problem,” a campaign that she witnesses as her Jewish neighbors are attacked and taken from their homes. When Korinna discovers that her parents—who are secretly members of an underground resistance group—are sheltering a family of Jewish refugees behind her bedroom wall, she is shocked. As she comes to know the family her sympathies begin to turn, and when someone tips off the Gestapo, Korinna’s loyalties are put to the test. She must decide what she really believes and whom she really trusts. An exciting novel for middle-grade readers, Behind the Bedroom Wall teaches tolerance and understanding while exploring why Nazism held so many in its deadly thrall.

The Trouble with Jeremy Chance

Author : George Harrar
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571316691
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Jeremy Chance written by George Harrar and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, following a disagreement with his father and his first whipping by a belt, twelve-year-old Jeremy hops a train to Boston to meet his older brother, a soldier returning from World War I.

Trudy

Author : Jessica Lee Anderson
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571316592
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Trudy written by Jessica Lee Anderson and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trudy's having a hard time at school: math class isn't going well, and her best friend, the one she pinky-swore she would always be friends with, has found a new group to hang out with. To top things off, her parents are old -- really old -- and while she loves them with all her heart, she dislikes it when other people mistake them for her grandparents. When Trudy's father starts acting strangely, Trudy and her mother can't figure out what the problem is. But when he forgets to pick Trudy up from school and starts to put groceries away in the wrong place, they decide to take him to the doctor. Once Trudy's father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Trudy and her mother are faced with some tough decisions. This is a touching, beautifully told story that young people relate to, particularly those who have parents or grandparents dealing with an illness. Trudy's challenges and her strength in dealing with them make her a heroine with whom young readers identify.

Perfect

Author : Natasha Friend
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571318015
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Perfect written by Natasha Friend and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting with humor and insight the pressure to be outwardly perfect, this novel for ages 10-13 shows how one girl develops compassion for her own and others’ imperfections. For 13-year-old Isabelle Lee, whose father has recently died, everything's normal on the outside. Isabelle describes the scene at school with bemused accuracy--the self-important (but really not bad) English teacher, the boy that is constantly fixated on Ashley Barnum, the prettiest girl in class, and the dynamics of the lunchroom, where tables are turf in a all-eyes-open awareness of everybody's relative social position. But everything is not normal, really. Since the dealth of her father, Isabelle's family has only functioned on the surface. Her mother, who used to take care of herself, now wears only lumpy, ill-fitting clothes, cries all night, and has taken every picture of her dead husband and put them under her bed. Isabelle tries to make light of this, but the underlying tension is expressed in overeating and then binging. As the novel opens, Isabelle's little sister, April, has told their mother about Isabelle's problem. Isabelle is enrolled in group therapy. Who should show up there, too, but Ashley Barnum, the prettiest, most together girl in class.

A Year Down Yonder - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6

Author : Nat Reed
Publisher : Classroom Complete Press
ISBN 13 : 1553198948
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book A Year Down Yonder - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6 written by Nat Reed and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students are taken out of their comfort zone to experience a year in the country. Additional writing tasks offer great options for extra work. List things that are different between Mary Alice's world and the present. Translate two different expressions Mary Alice uses to describe her grandmother. Put events from the story in order as they happened with Mary Alice and Grandma on Halloween. Write a letter to Mary Alice's mother in her own words in an attempt to change her opinion of the grandmother. Students identify who the antagonist of the story is and defend their opinion. Create a travel brochure for Chicago, Illinois. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: A Year Down Yonder is a Newbery Medal-winning story about a young girl who must spend a year living with her grandmother in the country. Mary Alice spent her childhood summers staying with her grandmother in a small country-town in Illinois. These summers were packed with enough surprises and drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. Now, Mary Alice is fifteen and must spend a whole year with her grandmother, away from her Chicago home. Over the course of the year, Mary Alice experiences a hurricane, fox-hunting by night, a late-night raid of a pecan tree and pumpkin patch, a huge snake in the attic, and a community rife with hardship and social pretenses. A Year Down Yonder is a hilariously funny and heart-warming novel.

In the Company of Owls

Author : Peter Huggins
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 158838036X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Owls written by Peter Huggins and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aaron and his father accidentally discover a neighbor's illegal still near their dairy farm, it puts the whole Cash family in danger.

Cry Wolf

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1499860390
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Cry Wolf written by Wilbur Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed adventure set in 1930s Africa from global bestseller Wilbur Smith “They recognised in each other that same restlessness that was always driving them on to new adventure, never staying long enough in one place or at one job to grow roots, unfettered by offspring or possessions, by spouse or responsibilities, taking up each new adventure eagerly and discarding it again with our qualms or regrets. Always moving onwards — never looking backwards.” The wartime race to save a country… When Jake Barton, American engineer, teams up with English gentleman and hustler Gareth Swales to sell five battered old Bentleys in 1930s East Africa, neither of them could have imagined that they’d soon be attempting to smuggle the vehicles into Ethiopia to support the war effort, in return for a huge reward. But to do this, they’ll have to manoeuvre past several extremely hostile European forces, as well as managing their feelings for Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful journalist who has been sent with them to report on the brutal violence of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The three adventurers are about to discover that some battles are more than they can handle…

A Yellow Watermelon

Author : Ted M. Dunagan
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588381978
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book A Yellow Watermelon written by Ted M. Dunagan and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in poverty-stricken, racially segregated, rural Alabama in the late 1940s, a white boy named Ted and a black boy named Poudlum become secret friends, join forces to integrate the cotton field laborers, and try to stop evil forces from depriving Poudlum's family of their property and livelihood.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

JAKE ('I'm Thinkin'...') *Soft Cover Preview Edition

Author : Neebeeshaabookway (L. G)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578009391
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book JAKE ('I'm Thinkin'...') *Soft Cover Preview Edition written by Neebeeshaabookway (L. G) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS THE FIRST NOVEL (a PREVIEW edition ) (*previews: Jake And Sofia)-- The JAKE SMITH RANCH SERIES is for head injury, seizure, and tongue-loss awareness--Jake Smith and his twin sister's love, will touch your heart forever...Jake is now back home, after saving Stoney's life. Jake's twin (Jade) is now trying to salvage his, as he faces a future without his tongue, while also dealing with seizures and his head injury. But all Jake really wants is just to be the same--although, he's now forever different. Or--is he? Yep, he's got a hard trail to go, until he can even know where he's headed, as, too much is unclear until a few needed trail-markers-of-insight surface--in the form of situations to be met-and-dealt-with. Victory comes a step at a time, and in different ways--if one just presses-on. If you would like more information on the Jake Smith Ranch Series, and the separate titles for these books, please go to: lulu.com and search.

Dinner with Mobutu

Author : Jake Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1413499430
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Mobutu written by Jake Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil field worker, soldier, Washington bureaucrat, professor, farmer, builder, academic dean, and international consultant. These are some of Jake Smith's job titles chronicled in this memoir. Dining with dictators is just one small episode in an eclectic career. This book documents Smith's life and times --- from a small town in rural Louisiana to presidential palaces in Africa; from struggles to survive on a Tennessee farm to struggles in academia, where the stakes are small, but the fights are vicious. Dinner with Mobutu covers Smith's 40-year fascination with Africa --- from student to scholar to political consultant.

Nightfall

Author : Jake Halpern
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698405560
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Nightfall written by Jake Halpern and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light in this gripping and eerie survival story, perfect for fans of James Dashner and Neil Gaiman. On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on the horizon. The weather is turning cold and the shadows are growing long. Because sunset triggers the tide to roll out hundreds of miles, the islanders are frantically preparing to sail south, where they will wait out the long Night. Marin and her twin brother, Kana, help their anxious parents ready the house for departure. Locks must be taken off doors. Furniture must be arranged. Tables must be set. The rituals are puzzling—bizarre, even—but none of the adults in town will discuss why it has to be done this way. Just as the ships are about to sail, a teenage boy goes missing—the twins’ friend Line. Marin and Kana are the only ones who know the truth about where Line’s gone, and the only way to rescue him is by doing it themselves. But Night is falling. Their island is changing. And it may already be too late.