Bayou Boy And The Wolf Dog

Author : George Harmon Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595138810
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bayou Boy and the Wolf Dog written by George Harmon Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night after Wolf Boy deafeats an English Stafforshire, he escapes, then travels over a 400 miles, and finally reaches Willa Webber’s family just as they are moving to New Orleans. The moving van wrecks and Willa’s German Shepherd puppy is rescued by Old Howler, an old gray wolf, with aching dugs, because she has lost her pups to hunters. Old Howler takes the pup to her den in the swamp, nurses it, then makes kills for it, and trains him in wolf ways. Heart-broken, Willa comes to the swamp with her father and Aunt Maggy and begs Jean to look for her puppy. Jean , impressed by the girl, keeps his word, but it takes him a long time to find the animal. Old Howler, though cunning, is old, and no match for the younger male wolf and his mate. Finally, the two gray wolfs surprise Old Howler, and Wolf Boy arrives too late to save her. Jean discovers the dog and uses fresh meat to entice him to come home. Jean captures Wolf Boy in the smokehouse. People come from afar to see the wolf-dog. Brush Lockwood, a dog fighting thug, steals Wolf Boy, takes him far away, and fights him in several states. Wolf Boy is undefeated. But he hates his masterhome—Jean’s home. Willa comes up from New Orleans, but decides to leave Wolf Boy with Jean.

Author : George Harmon Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595007554
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bayou Boy written by George Harmon Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean LeBlanc had lived in the Louisiana swamp country all his fourteen years. He loved the swamp, just as his father did. Jean had never gone to school, and neither had his father, but Papa taught him what a man needed to know in order to live in the swamp. Jean could shoot alligators, trap muskrats, and catch fish almost as well as any grown man in the bayou. But things were changing. Big caterpillar tractors were shoving up the black earth and filling the swampland with noise and blue diesel smoke. The state of Louisiana was building a road through the swamp, and the animals were moving farther into the wilds. A man couldn't make a living by hunting and trapping. Papa had to go to work on the offshore oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico, and Jean had to look after his mother and sister while Papa was gone. Taking his father's place proved to be more difficult and dangerous than Jean had imagined. But it was a maturing experience, and it helped Jean to accept the fact that nothing stays the same. Both he and Papa had come to realize that the old way of life was gone, and that for Jean, the new life must include school.

Author : Anne Commire
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ISBN 13 : 9780810300583
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something about the Author written by Anne Commire and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.

Author : Pamela L. Tiedt
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Author : Ralph Semmes Jackson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757441
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home on the Double Bayou written by Ralph Semmes Jackson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, through a boy’s eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road. Again he catches odors once so familiar: of a mysterious attic, of burning salt grass in late summer, of mountain streams with their fresh green smell, of dark-roast coffee and of slab bacon sizzling in the pan. He hears again a panther’s scream from the darkness surrounding a campfire, the scampering of mice across the barnloft floor, the sigh of a felled pine tree changing to a crashing roar as it meets the ground, the sounds of a meal in preparation, the hum of a mosquito swarm rising from the marshes. He remembers the taste of barbecued goat, the sweet sharpness of peppermint candy, the flavor of gumdrops from the country store—where, as showcase neighbors of cigars and chewing tobacco, they acquired a faint tobacco taste. And he feels again the welcome shock of frigid spring water on a hot perspiring body, the pleasant sensation of sand between his toes, the breathtaking exhilaration of swinging on a sapling top. The joy of childhood on an East Texas ranch is the subject of this book: exciting events like the arrival of the first norther of the season, swimming with alligators, hogkilling, building tree houses, roundup, hunting and fishing, calf-riding, fording strange streams. Interspersed among these episodes are others of darker mood: a smallpox epidemic, the burning of the ranch house, wolves attacking the cattle. Jackson’s characters come alive. Scenes are vivid; moods are various and enveloping. The author has told the delightful story of his boyhood from a highly personal yet universal perspective, and in doing so he has presented a picture of a region of the state previously largely neglected in Texas literature.

Author : Ken Wells
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375866523
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rascal written by Ken Wells and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rascal is happy to leave Voclain's farm to live with his boy, Meely, and pair spend their time exploring the Louisiana bayou, but when Meely gets stuck on a rotted bridge it is left to Rascal to find away to save his boy from danger.

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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1806 pages
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Total Pages : 1824 pages
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Download or read book Analytical and Topical Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers and the Officers of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Upon Works and Surveys for River and Harbor Improvement written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: