Download or read book A Guide for Using Charley Skedaddle in the Classroom written by Angela Jones and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When faced with the horrors of war, Charley skedaddles away from the Union Army.
Download or read book Turn Homeward Hannalee written by Patricia Beatty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1984-10-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the closing days of the Civil War, plucky 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia. "A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with a spunky heroine and fine historical detail."--School Library Journal. Author's note. "There are few authors who can consistently manage both to entertain and inform." --Booklist
Download or read book Charley Skedaddle written by Patricia Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Comes with Cannons written by Patricia Beatty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-10-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
Download or read book Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty written by Troll Associates and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Green Glass Sea written by Ellen Klages and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is—and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.
Download or read book Jayhawker written by Patricia Beatty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-10-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
Download or read book Charley Skedaddle written by Patricia Beatty and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.
Download or read book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Download or read book Wait for Me Watch for Me Eula Bee written by Patricia Beatty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart-pounding story of a Texan boy's transformation to a Comanche brave and back again. With Pa off fighting in the Civil War, Lewallen Collier and his little sister are captured in a bloody Comanche raid. Admiring Lewallen's courage, the Indians give him the name Sings His War Song and try to teach him the ways of a young brave. But Lewtie dreams only of escape -- and of the day he can return to rescue little Eula Bee.
Download or read book Sarah and Me and the Lady from the Sea written by Patricia Beatty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1994-09-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcella Abbott can't believe it. Her family is giving up their house in Portland, Oregon, and their comfortable life in the city to live year-round on Washington State's Olympic peninsula when her father's business is ruined. Nahcotta's okay for the summer, but Marcella doesn't much like the peolple who live there. In fact, she thinks they're stupid, oafish, country bumpkins. But three things change her mind forever: a new friend, a beached whale, and the incredibly mysterious "lady from the sea."
Download or read book Lupita Manana written by Patricia Beatty and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for la migra
Download or read book Elly My True Story of the Holocaust written by Elly Berkovits Gross and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp. When they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the left. She never saw her family alive again. Thanks to a series of miracles, Elly survived the Holocaust. Today she is dedicated to keeping alive the stories of those who did not. Elly appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes for her involvement in bringing an important lawsuit against Volkswagen, whose German factory used her and other Jews as slave laborers.
Download or read book Streams to the River River to the Sea written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1986 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
Download or read book Dancing Carl written by Gary Paulsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Carl, Gary Paulsen's first novel, was a ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Notable Children's Trade Book for the Language Arts. In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange dance that is both beautiful and disturbing to watch. It is Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret behind Carl's dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carl's dance becomes a fragile and tentative expression of hope and the healing power of love.
Download or read book A Literature Unit for Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty written by Angela L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bonanza Girl written by Patricia Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a literary study guide with activities designed for group and individual projects. Includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension and discussion questions and cross-curricular activites. Some pages are reproducible for classroom use.
