The Corner Boys

Author : Geoffrey Beattie
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780575064324
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corner Boys written by Geoffrey Beattie and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age tale set in Belfast before the cease-fire finds James, a seventeen-year-old Protestant dropout, falling in love with a Catholic girl

Author : Ralph Masciulli
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 141202868X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corner Boys written by Ralph Masciulli and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the 60's in a small Italian neighbourhood. The social dynamics are expressed in their simplicity with emphasis on their unique cultural benefits.

Author : Carole Engle Avriett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621576558
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coffin Corner Boys written by Carole Engle Avriett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gripping…filled with…dramatic escapes, moments of surprising humanity, and acts of bravery." —Publishers Weekly A Story of Adventure, Survival, Loyalty, and Brotherhood Taking off from England on March 16, 1944, young Lt. George Starks and the nine-man crew of his Flying Fortress were assigned to the “coffin corner,” the most exposed position in the bomber formation headed for Germany. They never got there. Shot down over Nazi-occupied France, the airmen bailed out one by one, scattered across the countryside. Miraculously, all ten survived, but as they discarded their parachutes in the farmland of Champagne, their wartime odyssey was only beginning. Alone, with a broken foot and a 20mm shell fragment in his thigh, twenty-year-old Starks set out on an incredible 300-mile trek to Switzerland, making his way with the help of ordinary men and women who often put themselves in great danger on his behalf. Six weeks later, on the verge of giving up, Starks found himself in the hands of a heroic member of the French Resistance—he calls him “the bravest man I’ve ever known”—who got him safely across the heavily guarded border. Similar ordeals awaited the other nine crewmen, who faced injury, betrayal, cap-tivity, hunger, and depression. It was nothing short of miraculous that all ten came home at the end of the war. George Starks emerged from his ordeal with two passions—to stay in touch with his crew whatever the obstacles and to return to France to find and thank the brave souls to whom he owed his life. His enduring loyalty enabled him to do both.

Author : Geoffrey Beattie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corner Boys written by Geoffrey Beattie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Beattie
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780575401945
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corner Boys written by Geoffrey Beattie and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belfast before the ceasefire. A loyalist working-class neighbourhood in industrial decline. James is 17; he walked out of school with few qualifications or prospects. When he has a romance of sorts with a catholic girl, it is no "Romeo and Juliet" but a tragedy of friends deceiving friends.

Author : Robert J. Hunt
Publisher : Flanker Press
ISBN 13 : 9781926881508
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corner Boys written by Robert J. Hunt and published by Flanker Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corner Boys is Robert Hunt's memoir of growing up on the mean streets of St. John's in the 1950s and '60s. Within the working-class neighbourhoods that are central to this tale, trouble seemed to lurk behind every corner, ready to be found by those who were looking for it. This dark yet humorous coming-of-age story follows a young and mischievous boy along the sidewalks and into the backyards of a turbulent--and sometimes violent--city.

Author : Amy June Bates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 153440659X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Umbrella written by Amy June Bates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A subtle, deceptively simple book about inclusion, hospitality, and welcoming the ‘other.’” —Kirkus Reviews “A boundlessly inclusive spirit...This open-ended picture book creates a natural springboard for discussion.” —Booklist “This sweet extended metaphor uses an umbrella to demonstrate how kindness and inclusion work...A lovely addition to any library collection, for classroom use or for sharing at home.” —School Library Journal In the tradition of Alison McGhee’s Someday, beloved illustrator Amy June Bates makes her authorial debut alongside her eleven-year-old daughter with this timely and timeless picture book about acceptance. By the door there is an umbrella. It is big. It is so big that when it starts to rain there is room for everyone underneath. It doesn’t matter if you are tall. Or plaid. Or hairy. It doesn’t matter how many legs you have. Don’t worry that there won’t be enough room under the umbrella. Because there will always be room. Lush illustrations and simple, lyrical text subtly address themes of inclusion and tolerance in this sweet story that accomplished illustrator Amy June Bates cowrote with her daughter, Juniper, while walking to school together in the rain.

Author : David Simon
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307833461
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corner written by David Simon and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.

Author : William Foote Whyte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corner Boys written by William Foote Whyte and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kendra J. Barrett
Publisher : Magination Press
ISBN 13 : 9781433828690
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yes I Can! written by Kendra J. Barrett and published by Magination Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carolyn is in a wheelchair, but she doesn't let that stop her! She can do almost everything the other kids can, even if sometimes she has to do it a little differently"--