Water Street

Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307549054
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Street written by Patricia Reilly Giff and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer, like her mother, Nory, to help her sister Annie find love, and to convince her brother, Hughie, to stop fighting for money with his street gang. And of course, she wishes that a girl would move into the empty apartment upstairs so that she can have a new friend close by. But Thomas Neary and his Pop move in upstairs. Thomas who writes about his life in his journal--his father who spends each night at the Tavern down the street, the mother he wishes he had, and the Mallon family downstairs that he desperately wants to be a part of. Thomas, who has a secret that only Bird suspects, and who turns out to be the best friend Bird could ever have.

Author : Crystal Wilkinson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813169101
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Street written by Crystal Wilkinson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of Water Street are hardworking, God-fearing people who live in a seemingly safe and insulated neighborhood within a small Kentucky town: "Water Street is a place where mothers can turn their backs to flip a pancake or cornmeal hoecake on the stove and know our children are safe." But all is not as it seems as the secret lives of neighbors and friends are revealed in interconnected tales of love, loss, truth, and tragedy. In this critically acclaimed short story collection, Crystal Wilkinson peels back the intricate layers that form the fabric of this community and its inhabitants -- revealing emotionally raw, multifaceted tales of race, class, gender, mental illness, and interpersonal relationships. The thirteen succinct stories offer fragmented glimpses of an overarching narrative that emerges, lyrical and fierce. Featuring a new foreword and a new afterword which illuminate Wilkinson's artistic achievement, this captivating work is poised to delight a new generation of readers.

Author : Melissa Strangway
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595635792
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 56 Water Street written by Melissa Strangway and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somethings not right at number 56 Water Street. From the sidewalk in front of the abandoned house, ten-year-old best friends Derek and Ravine watch lights flicker on and off, again and again. When they race home to tell their parents, theyre in for a shock: there is no house at 56 Water Street! The house is invisible to everyone but Derek and Ravine, and the ghost haunting the old place wants to get their attention. Trapped for more than a hundred years, Isabel Roberts needs to solve the mystery of her younger sisters fate before she can truly rest in peace. And shes chosen Derek and Ravine to help her. When the two friends summon the courage to venture inside the house, theyre unprepared for what they find (after all, meeting a ghost face-to-face isnt exactly normal) and for the spine-tingling adventures in store for them. But Derek and Ravine are determined to help Isabel. If they dont, she could be a ghost forever!

Author : Elizabeth O. Dulemba
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492698296
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bird on Water Street written by Elizabeth O. Dulemba and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elizabeth Dulemba seamlessly melds a coming-of-age story to the reality of life in a single-industry town. This is a book that sings." — Betsy Bird, School Library Journal blog A Fuse #8 Production Living in Coppertown is like living on the moon. Everything is bare—there are no trees, no birds, no signs of nature at all. And while Jack loves his town, he hates the dangerous mines that have ruined the land with years of pollution. When the miners go on strike and the mines are forced to close, Jack's life-long wish comes true: the land has the chance to heal. But not everyone in town is happy about the change. Without the mines, Jack's dad is out of work and the family might have to leave Coppertown. Just when new life begins to creep back into town, Jack might lose his friends, his home, and everything he's ever known. Dulemba paints a vivid picture of life in the Appalachia in this beautiful story about a boy looking for new beginnings while struggling to hold on to the things he loves most.

Author : Keith O'Brien
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593318439
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Falls written by Keith O'Brien and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today. “Propulsive...A mighty work of historical journalism...A glorious quotidian thriller about people forced to find and use their inner strength.” —The Boston Globe Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. But in the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly sweet smell of chemicals. In this propulsive work of narrative storytelling, NYT journalist Keith O’Brien uncovers how Gibbs and Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood. The school and playground had been built atop an old canal—Love Canal, it was called—that Hooker Chemical, the city’s largest employer, had quietly filled with twenty thousand tons of toxic waste in the 1940s and 1950s. This waste was now leaching to the surface, causing a public health crisis the likes of which America had never seen before and sparking new and specific fears. Luella Kenny believed the chemicals were making her son sick. O’Brien braids together previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemical’s deeds; the local newspaperman, scientist, and congressional staffer who tried to help; the city and state officials who didn’t; and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference to save their families and their children. They would take their fight all the way to the top, winning support from the EPA, the White House, and even President Jimmy Carter. By the time it was over, they would capture America’s imagination. Sweeping and electrifying, Paradise Falls brings to life a defining story from our past, laying bare the dauntless efforts of a few women who—years before Erin Brockovich took up the mantle— fought to rescue their community and their lives from the effects of corporate pollution and laid foundation for the modern environmental movement as we know it today.

Author : Nick Cutter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476717753
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Troop written by Nick Cutter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING “The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.” —Stephen King Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite—shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry—Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another. Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later—and all-consuming—this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more.

Author : Joseph A. Farina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Water Street written by Joseph A. Farina and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy H. CARTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Widening of Water Street, versus J. M. Wightman written by Timothy H. CARTER and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River St Widening, from Water St to Highway 1, City of Santa Cruz written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New Bedford (Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Documents written by New Bedford (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the reports of the Auditor, City Clerk, Engineering Dept., Fire Dept., Board of Health, Dept. of Parks, Board of Overseers of the Poor, Free Public Library, School Committee, Superintendent of Streets, and Water Board.