Download or read book Is the Land of the Free Still the Home of the Brave written by James W. Muller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home of the Brave written by Katherine Applegate and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter – cold and unkind. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means "family" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country. Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book Snow Storm in August written by Jefferson Morley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and threatened his owner, respected socialite Anna Thornton. Despite no blood being shed, Bowen was eventually arrested and tried for attempted murder by district attorney Francis Scott Key, but not before news of the incident spread like wildfire. Within days Washington’s first race riot exploded as whites, fearing a slave rebellion, attacked the property of free blacks. One of their victims was gregarious former slave and successful restaurateur Beverly Snow, who became the target of the mob’s rage. With Snow-Storm in August, Jefferson Morley delivers readers into an unknown chapter in history with an absorbing account of this uniquely American battle for justice.
Download or read book High School Songs written by Sara Boyer Callinan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invisible Front written by Yochi Dreazen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic. Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark's career took them to bases around the world. When Kevin and Jeff die within nine months of each other—Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq—Mark and Carol are astonished by the drastically different responses their sons’ deaths receive from the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero, Kevin’s death is met with silence, evidence of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different battles, Mark and Carol commit themselves to transforming the institution that is the cornerstone of their lives. The Invisible Front is the story of how one family tries to set aside their grief and find purpose in almost unimaginable loss. The Grahams work to change how the Army treats those with PTSD and to erase the stigma that prevents suicidal troops from getting the help they need before making the darkest of choices. Their fight offers a window into the military’s institutional shortcomings and its resistance to change – failures that have allowed more than 3,000 troops to take their own lives since 2001. Yochi Dreazen, an award-winning journalist who has covered the military since 2003, has been granted remarkable access to the Graham family and tells their story in the full context of two of America’s longest wars. Dreazen places Mark and Carol’s personal journey, which begins when they fall in love in college and continues through the end of Mark's thirty-four year career in the Army, against the backdrop of the military’s ongoing suicide spike, which shows no signs of slowing. With great sympathy and profound insight, The Invisible Front details America's problematic treatment of the troops who return from war far different than when they'd left and uses the Graham family’s work as a new way of understanding the human cost of war and its lingering effects off the battlefield.
Download or read book Home of the Brave written by Allen Say and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dreamlike sequences, a man symbolically confronts the trauma of his family’s incarceration in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. This infamous event is made emotionally clear through his meeting a group of children all with strange name tags pinned to their coats. The man feels the helplessness of the children. Finally, desperately he releases the name tags like birds into the air to find their way home with the hope for a time when Americans will be seen as one people—not judged, mistrusted, or segregated because of their individual heritage. Sixty years after thousands of Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned, the cogent prose and haunting paintings of renowned author and illustrator Allen Say remind readers of a dark chapter in America’s history.
Download or read book Kuru or the Zombies written by Yaubus Redford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kuru, or, the Zombies" is a heart-rending novel of total terror. When a group of reporters go to an island of zombies, created by the mad cultist Doctor Ghibourkei, there is mayhem, terror, and destruction. Only a small handful of people will live, and the rest...will die. A hair-raising chiller by the self-proclaimed "King of Ghouls".
Download or read book Jim Crow s Vagaries or Black flights of fancy containing a choice collection of nigger melodies To which is added the erratic life of Jim Crow written by Jim CROW and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Poems of American History written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Poems of American History" is filled with hundreds of poems written from the within, on the spot, and those written long afterward. This book contains poems of ancient and historical relevance. It describes events that led to the discovery of America before the breakout of the First World War in 1914.
Download or read book Soldiers and Sailors Patriotic Songs and Hymns Selected by F Moore from the Lyrics of Loyalty and Songs of the Soldiers written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patriotic Songs Symbols written by Melissa Hart and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2002 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encourage patriotism with lessons and activities that allow students to create their own patriotic songs, pledges and symbols.
Download or read book Catalogue of Paintings Engravings and Photographs written by Wildes Perkins Walker and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War of 1812 written by Karen Clemens Warrick and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers may know that the events of the War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem that later became the national anthem. However, they may not be familiar with the reasons behind the war, its outcomes, and its legacy. Enhanced by excerpts from primary sources and images, this book will discuss the circumstances that led to the war, the people who fought it, the deciding battles, the aftermath, and how it has shaped the nation we know today.
Download or read book Study Buddy written by Avisid and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, it is a fact that sunlight provides food for plants and animals. What is also true is that new thoughts and ideas are generated every day. This book is a result of many hours of ideas designed to enable the reader to think creatively and achieve his or her academic goals. Its focus is to educate. Studying, as its main theme, is universal. Readers may view this book as a compendium of educational material for cross-curricular learning. Whether you favor mathematics, trivia, geography, semantics, or science, there is something here for you. The book is divided into sections, which makes it easier for readers to locate information. Some of the sections include: ?Culture ?Global Connection ?Social Studies ?Technology ?The United States In addition, it features clear and useful examples, opportunities for review and practice, and information for parents to assist their children with homework and other related learning experiences.
Download or read book The Book of the Navy Comprising a General History of the American Marine written by John Frost and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Download or read book The Progressive Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools written by Salem Town and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
