Download or read book Jack Always Seeks His Fortune written by Donald Davis and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina, Davis heard stories that most American children never heard--stories that came to America through Scotch-Irish immigrants about Jack, a universal figure who is found in nearly every culture by various names. Davis was a featured storyteller at SEBA last year and at ALA this summer.
Download or read book Jack Fortune written by Sue Purkiss and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows no limits, and when one day he goes a step too far, Aunt Constance decides that she's had enough: from now on, his bachelor uncle can take care of him. Uncle Edmund is in no way prepared for a boy with boundless energy and an impish streak – and anyway, he's off to the Himalayas to search for rare plants! But Aunt Constance is absolutely determined, and Jack's uncle has no choice – he will have to take the boy with him. What follows is a terrific adventure that will see Jack and his uncle – the most unlikely of all expedition teams – sail to India, cross the jungle and reach their mountainous destination, before returning to London to present their findings to the Royal Society. Along the way, Jack will finally come to terms with the great loss that has blighted his childhood years and discover, quite unexpectedly, that he and his late father have much in common.
Download or read book Southern Jack Tales written by Donald Davis and published by august house. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows."
Download or read book Jack in Two Worlds written by William Bernard McCarthy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac
Download or read book Jack s Book written by Barry Gifford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.
Download or read book The Trickster Figure in American Literature written by Winifred Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.
Download or read book A Necessary Fantasy written by Dudley Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a variety of issues through the examination of heroic figures in children's popular literature, comics, film, and television.
Download or read book Tangram Tales written by Dianne de Las Casas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targeted for elementary teachers, drama teachers, and teaching artists, Tangram Tales contains adapted tales from around the world appropriate for grades 2 through 6. Teachers can tell the stories in the classroom as part of a math unit, or have the students use the scripts provided here to perform the stories using tangrams. In the author's tangram story theater process, students are given roles as storytellers, tangram artists, and chorus members to create grade-level story presentations. Other tangram methods, such as individual student tangram tales and student-created tangram tales, are shared as well. The ways in which tangram tales connect language arts and math is demonstrated. The book includes simple black-and-white spot illustrations for each story, showing the tangram figures that depict the story. A reproducible tangram pattern is provided. Grades 2-6
Download or read book Plots Unlimited written by Tom Sawyer and published by Ashleywilde, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a veritable thesaurus of exciting plot twists and story moves that work for any composition of any genre.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 50 Canadian Writers written by Golgotha Press and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 10430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 50 classic Canadian authors with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for. Works Include: An Algonquin Maiden by G. Mercer Adam All Afloat by William Wood Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill The Backwoodsmen by Charles G. D. Roberts Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss The Buccaneer Farmer by Harold Bindloss Canada for Gentlemen by James Seton Cockburn A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen The Canadian Dominion by Oscard Skelton Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus Macmillan Canoe Mates in Canada by St. George Rathborne The Cariboo Trail by Agnes C. Laut Carnac's Folly by Gilbert Parker The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton Crumps The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Louis Keene The Day of Sir John Macdonald by Joseph Pope Dick's Desertion by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway Fathers of Confederation by A. H. U. Colquhoun LaChance Mine Mystery by Susan Carleton Jones A Study in Canadian Politics by J. W. Dafoe Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson Lords of the North by A.C. Laut Brave and Gallant Gentleman by Robert Watson On The Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove The Great Plains by Lawrence J. Burpee The 'Patriotes' of '37 by Alfred D. Decelles The Pacific Coast by Agnes C. Laut Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss The Railway Builders by Oscar D. Skelton Raw Gold by Bertrand W. Sinclair The Red River Colony by Louis Aubrey Wood The Seigneurs of Old Canada:A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro The Silver Maple by Marian Keith Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister The Tribune of Nova Scotia by W. L. Grant White Narcissus by Raymond Knister Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton Wild Youth by Gilbert Parker Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss The Young Crusoe by Barbara Hofland The Yukon Trail by William MacLeod Raine The Harbor Master by Theodore Goodridge Roberts DISCLAIMER: There has been concern about the table of contents (or lack thereof) in the ""50 Classic Books"" Series. Golgotha Press has addressed this problem and readers who download the books as of November 2011 can access a functional table of contents by going to the front of the book and paging forward two pages. Because of the size of this book, the ""active"" feature in the conversion is removed. We are trying resolve this problem, but until then, please follow the steps above. If you still experience the problem, please contact us so we can investigate exactly what is happening. Please note, however, that the table of contents does not become active until you purchase the book--preview mode does not currently support active TOC's. We apologize for any confusion or frustration this has caused.
Download or read book Nickelodeon written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MultiCultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirteen Miles from Suncrest written by Donald Davis and published by august house. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davis, known across the country for his unforgettable tales of growing up Appalachian, inhabits this novel as the journal-keeping Medford McGee, a wide-eyed ten-year-old boy mystified by the rituals of adulthood and the march of technology into rural North Carolina in 1910. The one automobile in Close Creek awes Medford, and the telegraph machine dumbfounds him, The modern world, says Medford, is just about here now.
Download or read book One Night s Mystery written by May Agnes Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multicultural Literature and Response written by Lynn Atkinson Smolen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book emphasizes the critical role of quality multicultural literature and reader response in today's schools and libraries. All students need access to books in which they can see themselves—not just their physical appearance, but their culture and language, as well. Multicultural Literature and Response: Affirming Diverse Voices was written to help teachers and librarians find and use the best multicultural books in the service of reading comprehension and more. Underscoring the necessity of selecting quality literature that authentically, sensitively, and accurately portrays different groups, the book defines multicultural literature and provides a strong argument for its importance in schools and libraries. Expert contributors guide users to multicultural authors and illustrators who portrays U.S. ethnic and cultural groups, and they suggest ways to integrate this literature with writing, fluency development, storytelling, and audiovisuals. Extensive lists of books and websites that feature multicultural literature, as well as of authors, illustrators, and publishers of multicultural literature, make it easy to include such works in programs across the curriculum.
Download or read book Southern Frontier Humor written by Edward J. Piacentino and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Beyond Southern Frontier Humor: Prospects and Possibilities represents the next step in this revival, providing a series of essays with fresh perspectives and contexts. First the book shows the importance of Henry Junius Nott, a writer virtually unknown and forgotten who mined many of the principal subjects, themes, tropes, and character types associated with southern frontier humor, followed by an essay addressing how this humor genre and its ideological impact helped to stimulate a national cultural revolution. Several essays focus on the genre's legacy to the post-Civil War era, exploring intersections between southern frontier humor and southern local color writers--Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Sherwood Bonner. Mark Twain's African American dialect piece "A True Story," though employing some of the conventions of southern frontier humor, is reexamined as a transitional text, showing his shift to broader concerns, particularly in race portraiture. Essays also examine the evolution of the trickster from the Jack Tales to Hooper's Simon Suggs to similar mountebanks in novels of John Kennedy Toole, Mark Childress, and Clyde Edgerton and transnational contexts, the latter exploring parallels between southern frontier humor and the Jamaican Anansi tales. Finally, the genre is situated contextually, using contemporary critical discourses, which are applied to G. W. Harris's Sut Lovingood and to various frontier hunting stories.
