Perfect Once Removed

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080271885X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect, Once Removed written by Phillip Hoose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1956, Phillip Hoose was a gawky, uncoordinated 9-year-old boy just moved to a new town-Speedway, Indiana-and trying to fit into a new school and circle of friends. Baseball was his passion, even though he was terrible at it and constantly shamed by his lack of ability. But he had one thing going for him that his classmates could never have-his second cousin was a pitcher for the New York Yankees. Don Larsen wasn't a star, but he was in the Yankees' rotation. And on October 8, 1956, he pitched perhaps the greatest game that has ever been pitched: a perfect game (27 batters up, 27 out) against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series. It forever changed Phil's life. Perfect, Once Removed, recalls with pitch-perfect clarity the angst and jubilation of Phil Hoose's 9th year. To be published on the 50th anniversary of The Perfect Game, it will be one of the best baseball books of 2006.

Author : S. C. Perkins
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250189039
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Once Removed written by S. C. Perkins and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster uses her skills to solve murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients’ long-dead ancestors, and her job has never been so exciting as when she discovers a daguerreotype photograph and a journal proving Austin, Texas, billionaire Gus Halloran’s great-great-grandfather was murdered back in 1849. What’s more, Lucy is able to tell Gus who was responsible for his ancestor’s death. Partly, at least. Using clues from the journal, Lucy narrows the suspects down to two nineteenth-century Texans, one of whom is the ancestor of present-day U.S. senator Daniel Applewhite. But when Gus publicly outs the senator as the descendant of a murderer—with the accidental help of Lucy herself—and her former co-worker is murdered protecting the daguerreotype, Lucy will find that shaking the branches of some family trees proves them to be more twisted and dangerous than she ever thought possible.

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374306125
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attucks! written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA Notable Book of 2019 NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018 A 2018 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2018 A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction Book of 2018 An ALSC Notable Children's Book of 2019 A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose. By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament—an integration they had forced with their on-court prowess. From native Hoosier and award-winning author Phillip Hoose comes this true story of a team up against impossible odds, making a difference when it mattered most. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312661053
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claudette Colvin written by Phillip Hoose and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.

Author : Suzanne Heintz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781715242398
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Once Removed written by Suzanne Heintz and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete 20 year satirical series, by the hilarious, yet serious, Photographer who documented the imagined "perfect life" for women with a store bought family of mannequins. Travel the world, and come home again with Suzanne's poignant commentary on social expectations for today's successful woman.

Author : Sir John Hawkins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368717987
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History of the Science and Practice of Music written by Sir John Hawkins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : John Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History of the Science and Practice of Music written by John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Curry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578558332
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Once Removed written by Jeffrey Curry and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her youngest now in college, Kate decides to visit her mother when her workaholic husband abandons her for a Columbus Day boys' golf weekend just after having been away for two weeks on business. Her life is now what she saw coming. Their DC area McMansion and her life that used to be so full with family and activities is empty. When a friend shares a Facebook post by Kate's now-single, ex-fiancée who has just finished rehabbing a beach cottage on the North Carolina coast. They joke that since it's just a two-hour's drive from her mother's, he's close enough for a drive-by to see who and what he's become after the 27 years. When a gas-pump "run-in" leads to a coffee shop conversation that results in Kate agreeing to be his weekend guest as friends, the two navigate back through their painful and humorous memories to unearth why things failed and what their realities of today are while dancing through and around interjections from Kate's immediate family, Jason's child and new beach friends.

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 146686706X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moonbird written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind. He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moon—and halfway back! B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey. B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuit—changes caused mostly by human activity—have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall? National Book Award–winning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the world's most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it's too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird. Moonbird is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012. A Common Core Title.

Author : sir John Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General history of the science and practice of music. [With] vol. of portraits written by sir John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: