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Yard War

Author : Taylor Kitchings
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0553507567
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Yard War written by Taylor Kitchings and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Taylor Kitching’s rousing debut puts you right on the fifty-yard line of a vital historical moment.” —Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Perfect for readers of Christopher Paul Curtis’s Bud, Not Buddy and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy, Yard War explores race relations during the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a boy who accidentally sets off a “yard war” when he invites his maid’s son to play football on his front lawn. Trip Westbrook has spent his first twelve years far from the struggle for civil rights going on in Mississippi. The one black person he knows well is Willie Jane, the family maid, who has been a second mother to him. When Trip invites her son, Dee, to play football in the yard, he discovers the ugly side of his smiling neighbors. Trip’s old pals stop coming by. He is bullied, his house is defaced, and his family is threatened. The Westbrooks will be forced to choose between doing the right thing or losing the only home Trip has ever known. Who knew that playing football in the yard could have such consequences? This engaging, honest, and hopeful novel is full of memorable characters, and brings the civil rights–era South alive for young readers. “Trip is a fine character. 1964 Mississippi leaps to life in this book.” —Gennifer Choldenko, Newbery Honor winning author of Al Capone Does My Shirts “A captivating story about standing up for your friends. I loved seeing Trip learn how hard it can be to do the right thing.” —Kristin Levine, author of The Lions of Little Rock and The Paper Cowboy “Trip’s journey is a sensitive account about how one person can slowly make a difference.” —Booklist “A challenging but worthwhile portrait of a very difficult period in American history.” —SLJ

Yard War

Author : Taylor Kitchings
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0553507559
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Yard War written by Taylor Kitchings and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Taylor Kitching’s rousing debut puts you right on the fifty-yard line of a vital historical moment.” —Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Perfect for readers of Christopher Paul Curtis’s Bud, Not Buddy and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy, Yard War explores race relations during the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a boy who accidentally sets off a “yard war” when he invites his maid’s son to play football on his front lawn. Trip Westbrook has spent his first twelve years far from the struggle for civil rights going on in Mississippi. The one black person he knows well is Willie Jane, the family maid, who has been a second mother to him. When Trip invites her son, Dee, to play football in the yard, he discovers the ugly side of his smiling neighbors. Trip’s old pals stop coming by. He is bullied, his house is defaced, and his family is threatened. The Westbrooks will be forced to choose between doing the right thing or losing the only home Trip has ever known. Who knew that playing football in the yard could have such consequences? This engaging, honest, and hopeful novel is full of memorable characters, and brings the civil rights–era South alive for young readers. “Trip is a fine character. 1964 Mississippi leaps to life in this book.” —Gennifer Choldenko, Newbery Honor winning author of Al Capone Does My Shirts “A captivating story about standing up for your friends. I loved seeing Trip learn how hard it can be to do the right thing.” —Kristin Levine, author of The Lions of Little Rock and The Paper Cowboy “Trip’s journey is a sensitive account about how one person can slowly make a difference.” —Booklist “A challenging but worthwhile portrait of a very difficult period in American history.” —SLJ

The 100-Yard War

Author : Greg Emmanuel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118040236
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The 100-Yard War written by Greg Emmanuel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rough-and-tumble pop-culture look at the history of this storied game." —National Review Online The 100-Yard War showcases two great football teams who want nothing more than to beat each other, celebrating their storied history and going behind the scenes with the players and the fans to reveal the bitterness, the passion, and the pride surrounding the Game. ESPN called it the number one sports rivalry of the century. It transcends the years, the standings, and all other distractions. And thanks to the countless remarkable football games between Michigan and Ohio State—and hundreds of thousands of devoted alumni and followers—the rivalry is now an enormous cultural event.

1000 Yard Stare

Author : Marc Waszkiewicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811765660
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book 1000 Yard Stare written by Marc Waszkiewicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War through hundreds of personal photos Marc Waszkiewicz served three tours (1967, 1968, 1969) as an artillery forward observer with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam, where he took thousands of photos capturing the beauty, drudgery, hilarity, and horror of the war. 1,000-Yard Stare collects the best of these in a book that presents an unvarnished grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War. These are amazing, well-shot photos--most of them color, many of them truly arresting--of Marines in the field, in camp, on base, fighting, patrolling, writing, drinking, carrying on. Some have the feeling of candid snapshots while others are more composed (Waszkiewicz was, and is, an amateur photographer), with subjects ranging from a gunner calculating ranges with pencil and protractor and a chaplain conducting a battlefield mass to grunts smoking illicit substances while pretending to fish and images of barbed wire twisting in the jungle and watchtowers at twilight. Also included are photographs from Waszkiewicz’s postwar decades of coming to terms with his experiences, such as a sequence of poignant photos from The Wall in Washington and his trip back to Vietnam. This is a visual memoir of the war.

The Two Thousand Yard Stare

Author : Brendan M. Greeley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440080
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Two Thousand Yard Stare written by Brendan M. Greeley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "El Paso artist Tom Lea was commissioned by Life Magazine to paint the war as it was being experienced by U.S. and Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Along with his sketchbook, Lea carried on these assignments his "record of work", a notebook in which he recorded observations and details on the images he hoped to create from the events he had seen." "Brendan M. Greeley, Jr. has collected virtually all of Tom Lea's firsthand accounts of his assignments for Life, along with his powerful sketches and unforgettable paintings, and placed them in context, along with photographs and research focusing on the people, places, and wartime events encountered by Tom Lea. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - the artist's diary, letters to the Texas historian J. Frank. Dobie, oral interviews, and archival materials from Texas and national collections - Greeley presents in The Two Thousand Yard Stare a uniquely comprehensive and sustained treatment of Lea's creative accomplishments during World War II." "This well-documented and astonishingly illustrated volume will fascinate those interested in the realistic depiction of war, in both images and words. Also a must-read for students, scholars, and collectors of the artist's work, The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea's World War II is a brilliant compendium of the work and thought of one of America's most compelling painters and writers."--BOOK JACKET.

Jed and the Junkyard War

Author : Steven Bohls
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1484730399
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Jed and the Junkyard War written by Steven Bohls and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jed is a regular kid with a normal, loving family . . . that is, if it's normal for a loving family to drop their child off in the middle of nowhere and expect him home in time for Sunday dinner. Luckily, Jed excels at being a regular kid who-armed with wit and determination-can make his way out of any situation. At least until the morning of his twelfth birthday, when Jed wakes to discover his parents missing. Something is wrong. Really wrong. Jed just doesn't realize it's floating-city, violent-junk-storm, battling-metals, Frankensteined-scavengers kind of wrong. Yet. A cryptic list of instructions leads Jed into a mysterious world at war over . . . junk. Here, batteries and bottled water are currency, tremendously large things fall from the sky, and nothing is exactly what it seems. Resilient Jed, ready to escape this upside-down place, bargains his way onto a flying tugboat with a crew of misfit junkers. They set course to find Jed's family, but a soul-crushing revelation sends Jed spiraling out of control . . . perhaps for good.

The Yard Dog

Author : Sheldon Russell
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429929162
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Yard Dog written by Sheldon Russell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yard Dog takes place near the close of World War II, when a large number of Nazi POWs were incarcerated in camps scattered across the prairies of the United States. At Waynoka Divisional Point, near POW Camp Alva, the disillusioned Hook Runyon is assigned by the railroad to run off hobos and arrest pickpockets. Left behind in the war because of the loss of his arm in a car accident, Hook lives in a caboose, collects rare books, and drinks busthead liquor. When a coal picker by the name of Spark Dugan is found run over by a reefer car, Hook and his sidekick, Runt, the local moonshiner, suspect foul play and are drawn into a scheme far greater than either could have imagined. This conspiracy reaches the highest echelons of the camp and beyond and will push Hook and Runt to their physical and mental limits. Hook is a complex character, equal parts rough and vulnerable, an unlikely and unwilling hero. He is more than matched by Dr. Reina Kaplan, a Jewish big-city transplant to Camp Alva who is battling her own demons and has been put in charge of educating the Nazi inmates in the basics of democracy before their eventual return to Germany. Vivid descriptions of period detail, stark landscapes, and unique characters make this first book in the Hook Runyon series a fascinating mystery full of tension and deep insight.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard

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Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 1576875113
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book The Brooklyn Navy Yard written by and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's largest and oldest industrial facility, thehistoric Brooklyn Navy Yard occupies 250-acres on the EastRiver between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges, andis presently one of New York City's major industrial sites. Oneof the last remnants of Brooklyn's industrial supremacy, theYard has experienced tremendous change: functioning from theage of wind to that of diesel. As a cradle of naval evolution,the Yard has had to reinvent itself constantly, and this is madeevident by the presence of buildings and structures spanningfrom the 1830s to the 1950s. The Navy Yard was shut downin 1966 and reopened again in 1971 when the City of NewYork bought it with the intention of redevelopment. Great shipsare still repaired there, and the Yard, now an industrial parkwith a variety of manufacturers and light industries, functionsas a refuge from a city that has mostly forgotten that a mixedeconomy is a key to its survival. The Brooklyn Navy Yard, the first monograph by JohnBartelstone, offers a quiet and striking look at the Yard asa time capsule of industrial New York. The Yard today is afusion of the sublime and the practical, with eerie abandonedelements existing side by side with vibrant businesses.Bartelstone's camera is partial to the former. The imagesshow a place out of time, where World War II New York is stillpalpable. Bartelstone has been photographing the buildingsand structures of the Yard since 1994. His photographs areneither a history of the Navy Yard nor a depiction of its role asa modern industrial park; the book instead offers a structuredimpression of a dreamscape.

The Ghost Army of World War II

Author : Rick Beyer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797225308
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Army of World War II written by Rick Beyer and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way—ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously.” —Tom Brokaw The first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives—now updated with new material. In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—artists, designers, architects, and sound engineers, including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to fool the enemy about the strength and location of American units. Every move they made was top secret, and their story was hushed up for decades after the war's end. Hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs, along with maps, official memos, and letters, accompany Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles’s meticulous research and interviews with many of the soldiers, weaving a compelling narrative of how an unlikely team carried out amazing battlefield deceptions that saved thousands of American lives and helped open the way for the final drive to Germany. The stunning art created between missions also offers a glimpse of life behind the lines during World War II. This updated edition includes: A new afterword by co-author Rick Beyer Never-before-seen additional images The successful campaign to have the unit awarded a Congressional Gold Medal History and WWII enthusiasts will find The Ghost Army of World War II an essential addition to their library.

Harvard Yard

Author : William Martin
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446534218
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Harvard Yard written by William Martin and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where his runaway bestseller "Back Bay" left off, William Martin returns to Boston, this time bringing the history of Harvard University vibrantly to life.

Charlestown Navy Yard

Author :
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Charlestown Navy Yard written by and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of evolving technology and naval policy and how they affected the fortunes of the Charlestown Navy Yard and its workers. The yard was in operation from 1800 to 1974.

Defiant Gardens

Author : Kenneth I. Helphand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defiant Gardens written by Kenneth I. Helphand and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of wartime gardens documents how they humanize landscapes and experience, even under the direst conditions

Annual Report

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Champion Tariff Swindle of the World

Author : Joseph Solomon Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Champion Tariff Swindle of the World written by Joseph Solomon Moore and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civilian Employment Conditions, Boston Navy Yard

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilian Employment Conditions, Boston Navy Yard written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bone Yard

Author : James F. Christ
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781463787899
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Bone Yard written by James F. Christ and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 12, 2003, five US embedded tactical trainers (ETTs) working with the fledgling Afghan National Army, are ambushed at a derelict former Soviet tank park called "the Bone Yard" by militia of a local warlord. Outnumber 10 to 1, the US soldiers must clover around their vehicles--except for their commander, LTC Tom Brewer, who is cut off from them, and wounded--and fight it out until help arrives over an hour later. The Bone Yard gives an example of combat in the early years of the Afghanistan War.

Pamphlets on Free Trade

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pamphlets on Free Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: