Jackies Gift

Author : Sharon Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101587695
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie's Gift written by Sharon Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Steve Satlow is thrilled when his hero Jackie Robinson moves onto his block. After the famed second baseman invites Steve to a Dodgers game, the two become friends. So when Jackie hears that the Satlows don't have a Christmas tree, he decides to give them one, not realizing the Satlows are Jewish. But Jackie's gift helps these two different families discover how much they have in common. Written by the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor winner, Jackie's Gift is a holiday tale-based on a true story-about friendship and breaking barriers.

Author : Kathy McKeon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501158945
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie's Girl written by Kathy McKeon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny--and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous [former] first lady"--Amazon.com.

Author : Lola M. Schaefer
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736814355
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie Robinson written by Lola M. Schaefer and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the man who was the first African American baseball player on a major league team, as well as the first African American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Author : Dianne Russell Condon
Publisher : Potter Style
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie's Treasures written by Dianne Russell Condon and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each item pictured from the auction "is accompanied by vintage family photographs and a brief history detailing its provenance. There is also a complete listing of the astronomical sale prices for each item in the auction."--Jacket.

Author : Jackie Polzin
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760986178
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brood written by Jackie Polzin and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely original, full of surprise, humor, grief, and wisdom and just the right amount of chickens.' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves ‘The coop houses no predators, but the chickens do not know this. A chicken knows only what it can see. A chicken’s life is full of magic. Lo and behold.’ Meet Gloria, Gam Gam, Darkness, Miss Hennepin County, and their unlikely owner. Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the freezing nights of a brutal winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined. Brood by Jackie Polzin is a darkly funny, deeply moving and startling original debut novel of motherhood and grief, full of sorrow, joy and unrelenting hope. Perfect for fans of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout.

Author : William Kuhn
Publisher : Montgomery Street Press
ISBN 13 : 0998917060
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie Stories: Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis written by William Kuhn and published by Montgomery Street Press. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to meet and talk to people who knew Jackie Kennedy Onassis well? Each of these eight people gave me a surprising look into what it was like to live and work in Jackie's world. 1 Nancy Tuckerman was Jackie's friend from boarding school and also her lifelong assistant. 2 Jackie was wary around Nan Talese, one of the most important people in publishing. Jackie was also envious of Nan. 3 Distantly related to her by marriage, Louis Auchincloss gave Jackie a hard time when she wanted to slip out of the spotlight. 4 Sarah Giles was an editor at Vanity Fair. She worked with Jackie in her apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue on a book that got them both into trouble. 5 Ruth Ansel knew Jackie via man about town and major photographer Peter Beard. When Jackie had a rare chance to acquire an authorized biography of Audrey Hepburn, Jackie confessed to Ruth why she couldn't do it. 6 Rosamond Bernier gave sold-out lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was married to The New York Times'sart critic. Their wedding was at Philip Johnson's famous glass house in Connecticut. Nevertheless, Philip Johnson later proved treacherous both to Rosamond Bernier and to Jackie. 7 Francis Mason advised Jackie when she wanted to switch jobs. The story of how she ignored his advice and managed to remain friends with him is testimony to a high-spirited talent that the two of them shared. 8 Edith Welch and her husband went to India with Jackie. Jackie didn't always behave well on these trips, nor did Edith's husband.

Author : Julia A. Royston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781689180115
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie's Gift written by Julia A. Royston and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child may not sing or have a musical gift, but everyone has been given a gift. Help a child discover, develop and display that gift today.

Author : Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689841026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie's Bat written by Marybeth Lorbiecki and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator Brian Pinkney and award-winning author Marybeth Lorbiecki comes a carefully crafted picture book how Jackie Robinson broke through professional baseball’s color barrier. A young white batboy treats Jackie Robinson differently than the other, white, members of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers—and so does everyone else. But eventually Jackie’s patience and talent wear down the racist attitudes of those around them and earn their respect. A backmatter section provides additional information on Jackie’s life.

Author : Jay Mulvaney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312321871
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diana and Jackie written by Jay Mulvaney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has seen only a few women so magical, so evanescent, that they captured the spirit and imagination of their times. Diana, Princess of Wales and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were two of these rare creatures. They were the most famous women of the twentieth century ~ admired, respected, even adored at times; rebuked, mocked and reviled at others. Separated by nationality and a generation apart, they led two surprisingly similar lives. Both were the daughters of acrimonious divorce. Both wed men twelve years their senior, men who needed "trophy brides" to advance their careers. Both married into powerful and domineering families, who tried, unsuccessfully, to tame their willful independence. Both inherited power through marriage and both rebelled within their official roles, forever crushing the archetype. And both revolutionized dynasties. And yet in many ways they were completely different: Jackie lived her life with an English "stiff upper lip" ~ never complaining, never explaining in the face of immense public curiosity. Diana lived her life with an American "quivering lower lip" ~ with televised tell-alls, exposing her family drama to a world eager for every detail. These two lives have been well documented but never before compared. And never before examined in the context of their times. Jay Mulvaney, author of Kennedy Weddings and Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot, probes the lives of these two twentieth century icons and discovers: The nature of their personalities forged from the cradle by their relationships with their fathers, Black Jack Bouvier and Johnny Spencer. ·Their early years, and their early relationships with men. ·Their marriages, and the truth behind the lies, the betrayals and the arrangements. ·Their greatest achievements: motherhood. ·Their prickly relationships with their august mothers-in-law, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth II · Their lives as single women, working mothers. · Their roles as icons and archetypes. Graced with never before seen photographs from many private collections, and painstakingly researched, 0Diana and Jackie presents these two remarkable and unique women as they have never been seen before.

Author : Scott Simon
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470242841
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball written by Scott Simon and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk." --Chicago Tribune "Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extended essay." --The Washington Post Book World "Scott Simon tells a compelling story of risk and sacrifice, profound ugliness and profound grace, defiance and almost unimaginable courage. This is a meticulously researched, insightful, beautifully written book, one that should be read, reread, and remembered." --Laura Hillenbrand, author of the New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and American history. Thanks to Jackie Robinson, a barrier that had once been believed to be permanent was shattered--paving the way for scores of African Americans who wanted nothing more than to be granted the same rights as any other human being. In this book, renowned broadcaster Scott Simon reveals how Robinson's heroism brought the country face-to-face with the question of racial equality. From his days in the army to his ascent to the major leagues, Robinson battled bigotry at every turn. Simon deftly traces the journey of the rookie who became Rookie of the Year, recalling the taunts and threats, the stolen bases and the slides to home plate, the trials and triumphs. Robinson's number, 42, has been retired by every club in major league baseball--in homage to the man who had to hang his first Brooklyn Dodgers uniform on a hook rather than in a locker.