Muckers

Author : Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307982386
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muckers written by Sandra Neil Wallace and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former ESPN sportscaster Sandra Neil Wallace makes her young adult debut with a historical fiction novel that School Library Journal recommends to fans of Friday Night Lights in a starred review. Felix “Red” O’Sullivan’s world is crumbling around him: the mine that employs most of town is on the brink of closing, threatening to shutter the entire town and his high school with it. But Red’s got his own burdens to bear: his older brother, Bobby, died in the war, and he’s been struggling to follow in his footsteps ever since. That means assuming Bobby’s old position as quarterback and leading the last-ever Muckers team to the championship. But the only way for the hardscrabble Muckers to win State is to go undefeated and tackle their biggest rival, Phoenix United, which would be something of a miracle. Luckily, miracles can happen all the time on the field.

Author : William Osborne Dapping
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565362X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muckers written by William Osborne Dapping and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dapping’s life in a gang of rowdy boys. Simultaneously a polished work of social reform literature and a rejoinder to the era’s alarming exposes of the "dangerous classes," The Muckers stands as an important reform era primary document. The thinly disguised autobiographical narrative is told in the slangy, profane voice of the gang’s leader, Spike, who describes life through the eyes of the young boys who thronged the city’s streets, hawking newspapers, playing baseball, shooting craps, pilfering beer, and tormenting any and all adult authorities. These muckers are dirty and insubordinate, and prefer to steal rather than to work, but they also possess a high-spirited zest for life and mischief, a wily intelligence, and a sturdy code of honor that help them exploit the good intentions of social reformers and survive in a darkly violent and hypocritical world. Historian Woody Register’s introduction explores the book’s documentary value as a social history of 1890s tenement life; as a literary work that challenged the conventions of writing about children and the poor; and as a window through which to observe the remarkable story of the author’s transformation from slum mucker to Harvard man. Destined to become a classic of Progressive Era literature, The Muckers reads with the lively cadence of a novel, told in the voice of an unforgettable narrator of wit, grit, and heart.

Author : Bill Thornborough
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481784242
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muckers written by Bill Thornborough and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about two ladies who decided to start a small business and the adventures they encountered along the way.

Author : Chris Maries
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493139029
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mucker Revolt written by Chris Maries and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a thousand years, the Frame and its machine empire had ruled the people of Inalsol. A small group of Muckers struggled for survival in a semi arctic mountainous district known as Garvamore. In other places the Divines, a dehumanised elite, treat Muckers as slaves. Only in Garvamore can Muckers have any semblance of freedom. A small group fight for the survival and future of the human race of Inalsol, building their strength in secret until discovered by the Frame. The Frame will destroy them and all hope for the people unless they defeat the technologically superior Frame in battle against all odds.

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mucker written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1921 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burroughs calls up successful motifs from earlier works and recombines them in a roller-coaster fashion. The work starts as a social critique of the inner city, Chicago, but quickly moves to sea. A lost city of Japanese samurai can be found on a tiny Pacific island, and this serves as the action-filled turf of Billy Byrne, a Chicago street thug. He experiences a mutiny among pirates, encounters a lost race of Samurai head-hunter degenerates, must compete with another man for the love of beautiful Barbara, and travels to Mexico where Burroughs combines social history and the traditional Western.

Author : John A. Barnes
Publisher : Amacom Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814474556
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John F. Kennedy on Leadership written by John A. Barnes and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's business leaders have much in common with President Kennedy. They face monumental decisions in unpredictable times; their actions have implications far beyond their own organizations; and they are judged mercilessly and incessantly by both their constituents and the media. Professionals, then, would do well to study the leadership traits that made Kennedy one of the most respected, beloved, and influential world leaders in modern history. John F. Kennedy on Leadership analyzes what made Kennedy, both before and during his Presidency, a unique and dominant force who would serve as the standard by which future leaders would be judged. Readers will learn the value of: * Planning and decision making: Consult widely, then act. * Crisis management: Don't let events manage you. * Building a team: Find your own "Bobby." * Independence: Don't follow the crowd. * Mistakes: Learn from them and move on. This timely (and timeless) book will be of interest to anyone involved in leadership.

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Total Pages : 1312 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 1472 pages
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Total Pages : 948 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: