Courage Has No Color

Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763668206
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men are segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morris’s men serve as guards at The Parachute School, while the white soldiers prepare to be paratroopers. Morris knows that for his men to be treated like soldiers, they have to train and act like them, but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men as well as their passion for serving their country? Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America’s first black paratroopers, who fought in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, “proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability.” From Courage Has No Color What did it take to be a paratrooper in World War II? Specialized training, extreme physical fitness, courage, and — until the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) was formed — white skin. It is 1943. Americans are overseas fighting World War II to help keep the world safe from Adolf Hitler’s tyranny, safe from injustice, safe from discrimination. Yet right here at home, people with white skin have rights that people with black skin do not. What is courage? What is strength? Perhaps it is being ready to fight for your nation even when your nation isn’t ready to fight for you. Front matter includes a foreword by Ashley Bryan. Back matter includes an author’s note, an appendix, a time line, source notes, and a bibliography.

Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0307433056
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy–a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself. How do girls handle themselves? How much can a boy get away with? And in the end, who comes out on top? A bad boy may always be a bad boy. But this bad boy is about to meet three girls who won’t back down.

Author : Edwin Osgood Grover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Courage written by Edwin Osgood Grover and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dee Henderson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781414310657
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Courage written by Dee Henderson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone snatched his cousin's wife and son. FBI agent Luke Falcon is searching for a kidnapper and sorting out the crime. He's afraid it's the work of a stalker. He's afraid they're already dead. And he'll do anything required to get them back alive ... but he didn't plan on falling in love with the only witness. Later repackaged and republished as a stand-alone title, "Kidnapped" (Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2008).

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180945333
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Badge of Courage written by Stephen Crane and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young Henry Fleming enlists in the Union Army during the American Civil War, harboring dreams of becoming a war hero. When he faces the enemy for the first time, he realizes that the reality of war is far from his fantasies, and the feeling of horror engulfs him. When The Red Badge of Courage was first published in 1894, it distinguished itself from contemporary war narratives by focusing on internal psychological struggles rather than external events—a focus that keeps it captivatingly relevant even today. It has never been out of print and is considered one of the great American novels. STEPHEN CRANE [1871-1900] was an American poet and author. He was a significant voice within American realism, and his debut work, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [1893], is considered the first piece of American naturalism. He is best known for the classic war novel The Red Badge of Courage.

Author : Sharon Muir Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590481158
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colour of Courage written by Sharon Muir Watson and published by . This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go into a bookstore and what do you see? Row upon row of soon-to-be-forgotten titles. That's not the case with this book. It is a classic! "The Colour of Courage" is the remarkable true story of the epic horse trip made by famed Australian equestrian explorers Sharon Muir Watson and Ken Roberts. During the course of their mounted journey the young friends discovered enough adventures to satisfy even the most jaded reader, ranging from riding through leech-infested jungles to trying to herd their horses through some of the toughest terrain on earth. Yet, if many of these pages are testaments to courage, other sections carry the reader away to the forgotten corners of back-country Australia. For Ken and Sharon are not just horse people. They are the dust of Australia given a voice. Here are the old drovers recounting lost stories. Here are the little people of a big land recounting their tales. And here are two young people alive with vitality, ablaze with bravery, and determined to ride the length of an inhospitable country on a do-or-die journey. Ken and Sharon were the first to ride Australia's 5,000 kilometer long Bicentennial National Trail. They will not be the last. But what is certain is that this book, and their legendary ride, will never be forgotten. For these two brave explorers opened the door to the rest of us, and left this spell-binding story to show us the way.

Author : Robert Neubecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781582461823
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courage of the Blue Boy written by Robert Neubecker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of being in a land where everything is blue, Blue and his cow, Polly, travel in search of other hues and eventually find a way to share their own color with the world around them.

Author : CJ Lyons
Publisher : Blink
ISBN 13 : 0310765374
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Lies written by CJ Lyons and published by Blink. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping young adult suspense novel drenched in color, mystery, and lies. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons grabs you and won’t let go, keeping you guessing until the very last page of The Color of Lies. When you can see emotions in color, motives become black and white. Even murder. Ella Cleary has always had an eye for the truth. She has synesthesia, which means she is able to read people via the waves of colors that surround them. Her unique gift has led her to trust very few people outside her family since her parents died in a fire. So when a handsome young journalist appears with no colors surrounding him at all, her senses go on high alert. But while Alec is a mystery, Ella feels a connection to him she can’t ignore. Something about him feels familiar, and she is able to talk with him in ways she can’t with anyone else. Then just as feelings develop between them, Alec drops a bombshell: he believes her parents’ deaths were no accident. And she may be in more danger than she’s ever realized. Soon Ella doesn’t know who she can trust or even who she really is. As family secrets begin to unravel and fact and fiction collide, it becomes clear that the only way for Ella to learn the truth about her past is to find a killer. The Color of Lies: YA suspense with themes of mystery, romance, and friendship By New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller writer CJ Lyons, whose adult suspense novels have sold over 2 million copies in print and digital Features a protagonist with synesthesia, which can allow people to see sounds, taste words, or feel sensations on their skin associated with certain scents Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Jennifer Brown

Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635252
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Truths: A History of the United States written by Jill Lepore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.

Author : Christopher Robbins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743202635
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Test of Courage written by Christopher Robbins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of the true-thriller classics "Air America" and "The Ravens" delivers a compelling portrait of Michel Thomas, a man who fought his way from refugee to resistance leader, from slave laborer to Nazi hunter.