Rons Big Mission

Author : Rose Blue
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525478493
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ron's Big Mission written by Rose Blue and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron's obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage—it is a young man's first courageous mission. Here is an inspiring story, based on Ron McNair's life, of how a little boy, future scientist, and Challenger astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.

Author : Helaine Becker
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1250137527
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 written by Helaine Becker and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of stars in the sky, the number of dishes and spoons she washed in the kitchen sink. Boundless, curious, and excited by calculations, young Katherine longed to know as much as she could about math, about the universe. From Katherine's early beginnings as a gifted student to her heroic accomplishments as a prominent mathematician at NASA, this is the story of a ground-breaking American icon who not only calculated the course of moon landings but, in turn, saved lives. A Christy Ottaviano Book

Author : Jill Robinson
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1627530053
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jasper's Story written by Jill Robinson and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Jasper, a moon bear, lived a miserable existence, held captive in a cage by bear farmers in rural China. The farmers extracted the bile from Jasper's body and sold it to be used in traditional medicines. It's a horrific practice and conducted on thousands of moon bears each year. But now Jasper has the chance to be free and live a life away from pain and torture. In 2000, Animals Asia, an animal welfare organization, rescued Jasper and other captive moon bears, taking them to its Moon Bear Rescue Centre. Here veterinarians attended to the bears' wounds, hoping to give them some chance of a peaceful existence in the animal sanctuary. But after so many years of abuse Jasper's wounds, both physical and mental, are extensive. Can Jasper mend his body and mind and finally enjoy the life he was meant to live?

Author : Mini Grey
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375987029
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog written by Mini Grey and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THAT SQUARE-JAWED CAN-DO action toy, Traction Man, is back in another hilarious adventure. The little boy, Traction Man, and his brave pet, Scrubbing Brush, are inseparable—until the boy’s father throws the “unhygenic” Scrubbing Brush in the trash and replaces it with a “real” toy, the battery-operated TurboDog. It bleeps, speaks, and squeaks—but is not very smart. So Traction Man, wearing his airtight Astro-suit and armed with a bottle of SuperStrong Germo, enters the trash bin and rescues Scrubbing Brush from the Evil Bin Things (pizza crusts, spaghetti, and potato peels with eyes and mouths that hiss “Stay with us”). The Battle of the Bin is not to be missed—nor is the ignominious demise of TurboDog! With this satisfying sequel, Mini Grey has scored another smashing victory for imaginative play.

Author : Ron Hall
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0785219854
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workin' Our Way Home written by Ron Hall and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared devotion to Debbie led them to work toward fulfilling her vision: to ease the pain associated with poverty, homelessness, and inequality. Workin’ Our Way Home describes the ten years Ron and Denver lived together after Miss Debbie’s death. Written in both Ron’s and Denver’s unique voices, their inspiring (and often hilarious) adventures include: Their sometimes-bizarre life together in the Murchison Mansion Denver accidentally almost burning the house down—twice The challenges involved with making a movie Two visits to the White House Traveling the country to raise awareness about homelessness And much more! With both wit and wisdom, these pages reveal God’s plan lived out through these men and those closest to them, including their passion to fulfill Debbie’s dream of mitigating the suffering and humiliation associated with homelessness and inequality. Denver said it best: “Whether we is rich or whether we is poor, or somethin' in between, this earth ain’t no final restin' place. So in a way, we is all homeless—ever last one of us—just workin our way home.”

Author : H. Michael Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615441511
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Spirit of Ronald E. McNair Astronaut written by H. Michael Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emma Harrison
Publisher : Volo
ISBN 13 : 9780786847174
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cheetah Girls, The: Supa-Star Scrapbook written by Emma Harrison and published by Volo. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the jungle! Fans of The Cheetah Girls will love learning more about their world in this full-color scrapbook. Find out what Galleria, Chanel, Aqua, and Dorinda think about everything, from stardom to secret crushes. The book features full-color photos from the movie, and includes plenty of tips on being a teen diva from the hottest girl band in Manhattan.

Author : Michael J. Crow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947035102
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rez Boy Inc. written by Michael J. Crow and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the Rez didn't offer a lot of hope to Aidan Wells, a young Sioux man. Dealing drugs seemed like a reasonable option. But all reason goes out of Aidan's life when four of his friends die from a heroin overdose caused by Aidan's uncut stash. Full of guilt, and bitter at the years he will now spend in prison, Aidan feels irredeemable. But not to his cellblock neighbor, Dave, a born-again Christian. Dave's friendship begins to pierce the fog of shame that surrounds Aidan, as he teaches the young man about forgiveness through Jesus Christ. Through his reading of the Bible and growing understanding of God's love, Aidan finds the redemption he so desperately seeks and touches the lives of others in ways he could never have imagined before his acceptance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Based on a true story. Published by Word Out Books, an imprint of Winding Hall Publishers.

Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Author : Jael Ealey Richardson
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554987539
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone Thrower written by Jael Ealey Richardson and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, he became an incredible quarterback. But despite his unbeaten record in high school and university, he would never play professional football in the United States. Chuck Ealey grew up poor in a racially segregated community that was divided from the rest of town by a set of train tracks, but his mother assured him that he wouldn’t stay in Portsmouth forever. Education was the way out, and a football scholarship was the way to pay for that education. So despite the racist taunts he faced at all the games he played in high school, Chuck maintained a remarkable level of dedication and determination. And when discrimination followed him to university and beyond, Chuck Ealey remained undefeated. This inspirational story is told by Chuck Ealey’s daughter, author and educator Jael Richardson, with striking and powerful illustrations by award-winning illustrator Matt James.