The Ambassador Of Nowhere Texas

Author : Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250234115
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas written by Kimberly Willis Holt and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly Willis Holt's The Ambassador of Nowhere, Texas is a stunning post-9/11 companion to the National Book Award-winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter Rylee is at a crossroads—her best friend Twig has started pushing her away just as Joe, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Joe and learns that Joe’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost thirty years later. This beautiful middle grade novel is a tribute to friendships—old and new—and explores the challenges of rebuilding what may seem lost or destroyed. Christy Ottaviano Books

Author : Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429957859
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book When Zachary Beaver Came to Town written by Kimberly Willis Holt and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Winner The red words painted on the trailer caused quite a buzz around town and before an hour was up, half of Antler was standing in line with two dollars clutched in hand to see the fattest boy in the world. Toby Wilson is having the toughest summer of his life. It's the summer his mother leaves for good; the summer his best friend's brother returns from Vietnam in a coffin. And the summer that Zachary Beaver, the fattest boy in the world, arrives in their sleepy Texas town. While it's a summer filled with heartache of every kind, it's also a summer of new friendships gained and old friendships renewed. And it's Zachary Beaver who turns the town of Antler upside down and leaves everyone, especially Toby, changed forever. With understated elegance, Kimberly Willis Holt tells a compelling coming-of-age story about a thirteen-year-old boy struggling to find himself in an imperfect world. At turns passionate and humorous, this extraordinary novel deals sensitively and candidly with obesity, war, and the true power of friendship. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is the winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher : Christy Ottaviano Books
ISBN 13 : 0316326283
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Hurricane Girls written by Kimberly Willis Holt and published by Christy Ottaviano Books. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ "The girls’ slowly deepening understanding of themselves gives this book its heart. Like their rebuilt city, this friendship cannot reconstitute as an exact replica of what they had before…. [an] appealing and sensitive novel." —The Horn Book, starred review A coming-of-age middle grade novel about three best friends born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina who must confront storms of their own 12 years later, from a National Book Award winning author. Born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Greer, Joya Mia, and Kiki are seventh graders and the best of friends. After an accident leaves Greer's little sister paralyzed, Greer is forever changed by the experience and blames herself. Kiki and Joya Mia will do anything to help Greer let go of this emotional burden, and a plan is hatched to compete in a triathlon. Each girl will participate: Kiki will swim, Joya Mia will cycle, and Greer, if they can persuade her, will run—something she once loved to do. Set on the Westbank of New Orleans, this contemporary coming-of-age novel is a journey of growth, healing, and difficult transitions as the girls navigate their many life challenges: family trauma, body insecurity, and the conflict between ambition and responsibility. It's a powerful and enlightening exploration of how to surmount personal tragedy through friendship and forgiveness. "A tender and triumphant story about friendship and family, in a proud and resilient city."―Deborah Wiles, author of the National Book Award finalists Each Little Bird That Sings and Revolution

Author : Chandler Belden Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students, and Families written by Chandler Belden Beach and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sinclair Jayne
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1951786505
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Baby for the Texas Cowboy written by Sinclair Jayne and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither one of them had any intention of settling down… Tinsley Underhill left everything behind five years ago and hasn’t looked back. She loves life on the road following the American Extreme Bull Rider’s tour representing sponsor Four Wolves Whiskey. She rocks sales and pouring shots, and the bull riders are a sexy perk. She exults in the flirting and the chase, but when she lets her favorite champion catch her for a steamy fling, she knows they both have one foot out the door. Bull rider Anders Wolf is on top of more than just the leaderboard. Life is good. Women are better, especially the intriguing and gorgeous Tinsley. The fireworks are more explosive than he imagined, but even the best mind- and body-blowing pleasure must end. No way he’ll be roped early…then Tinsley casually announces she’s pregnant. Anders intends to do the right thing, but Tinsley’s plans don’t include him, marriage or happy ever after on his Texas ranch. Anders has never backed down from a challenge, and he’s not about to start now.

Author : Josef Opatrný
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book U.S. Expansionism and Cuban Annexationism in the 1850s written by Josef Opatrný and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josef Opatrný
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Historical Pre-conditions of the Origin of the Cuban Nation written by Josef Opatrný and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the highlights of annexationism in the 1850s when Cuban Annexationists found strong support from some American groups after the Texas annexation and the Mexican-American war. It explores the significance of annexationism in three areas: as representing one step beyond the early Creole reformism; as introducing into the political climate the acceptability of armed struggle; and as adding to the sense of a separate Cuban community and identity, not least with the debates it engendered, especially that between the essentially European cultural nationalism of Saco, and Cisneros Betancourt's logic of economic integration with the US and hence protection by its growing power.

Author : Kevin Boyle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393356078
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Shattering: America in the 1960s written by Kevin Boyle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social violence, and the blowback of a “silent majority” shredded the American fabric. Covering the late 1950s through the early 1970s, The Shattering focuses on the period’s fierce conflicts over race, sex, and war. The civil rights movement develops from the grassroots activism of Montgomery and the sit-ins, through the violence of Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the frustrations of King’s Chicago campaign, a rising Black nationalism, and the Nixon-era politics of busing and the Supreme Court. The Vietnam war unfolds as Cold War policy, high-stakes politics buffeted by powerful popular movements, and searing in-country experience. Americans’ challenges to government regulation of sexuality yield landmark decisions on privacy rights, gay rights, contraception, and abortion. Kevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Often they are everyday people like Elizabeth Eckford, enduring a hostile crowd outside her newly integrated high school in Little Rock, or Estelle Griswold, welcoming her arrest for dispensing birth control information in a Connecticut town. Political leaders also emerge in revealing detail: we track Richard Nixon’s inheritances from Eisenhower and his debt to George Wallace, who forged a message of racism mixed with blue-collar grievance that Nixon imported into Republicanism. The Shattering illuminates currents that still run through our politics. It is a history for our times.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Malnutrition and Federal Food Service Programs, Hearings.... written by United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: