River On The Rocks

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153353
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rock and the River written by Kekla Magoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as he becomes involved with the Black Panthers in 1968 Chicago. The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam, it’s not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And then it happens: Sam finds something that changes everything forever. Sam has always had faith in his father, but when he finds literature about the Black Panthers under Stick’s bed, he’s not sure who to believe: his father or his best friend. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Panthers with Stick, but soon he’s involved in something far more serious—and more dangerous—than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?

Author : Herman Schneider
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486782018
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocks, Rivers and the Changing Earth written by Herman Schneider and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated introduction to geology offers young readers insights into everyday signs of our constantly changing environment. Fascinating subjects include rivers of ice, the rise of volcanoes, and the formation of precious stones.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The River and the Rocks written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708460
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annals of the Former World written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

Author : W. E. R. Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891852534
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tale of the Elk written by W. E. R. Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vanessa McGrady
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781503903685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Needs River written by Vanessa McGrady and published by Little A. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After two years of waiting to adopt--slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair--a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady. Her sweet baby, Grace, was a dream come true. Then Vanessa made a highly uncommon gesture: when Grace's biological parents became homeless, Vanessa invited them to stay. Without a blueprint for navigating the practical basics of an open adoption or any discussion of expectations or boundaries, the unusual living arrangement became a bottomless well of conflicting emotions and increasingly difficult decisions complicated by missed opportunities, regret, social chaos, and broken hearts"--

Author : Marie Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999438534
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seaworthy written by Marie Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647223X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A River Runs through It and Other Stories written by Norman MacLean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442445475
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Downriver written by Will Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Author : MARION. CLARK
Publisher : Windmill Books
ISBN 13 : 9781508199052
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Croc on the Rock written by MARION. CLARK and published by Windmill Books. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing is hard! No one understands that more than the giant croc who sits on his rock. He chases away any other animal that comes near, aiming to have the river all to himself. But having it all is a lonely thing, and soon the croc realizes that the river is only fun when it's shared with others. This rhyming book about sharing is sure to resonate with young readers.