Download or read book June Bug on a String written by Rose Wilson and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book June Bug on a String written by Rose Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Marie would love to have a fudgesicle from the ice cream truck. However, she knows momma cannot afford the quarter to purchase one. How does June Bug help her view the large world around her while enjoying a frozen treat?
Download or read book Junebug written by Wilson Edward Reed, PhD and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of Wilson Edward Reed, PhD’s experience growing up Black in the South during the 1950’s and 60’s, Junebug is a middle-grade novel that shows how to move beyond hardships, like those many faced while living under Jim Crow. Full of humor and heartache, Junebug depicts a young person’s journey to find self-worth despite American society’s onslaught of negative messaging determined to define one’s identity and future—the kind that can come from any side. The story follows Junebug’s exploits with his friends, the loss of his mother, and his struggles with racial discrimination, before he sets his sights beyond Mississippi. After taking the 2,600 mile bus journey to Seattle, Junebug is encouraged by his three aunts to earn a college degree, all while his spiritual and emotional growth is on display. Like the Sankofa bird, Junebug is able to make peace with his past and use that knowledge to move forward as he takes responsibility for his mistakes and forgives those who hurt him. Junebug shows how familial support and community involvement can help motivated individuals rise above anger and discrimination and discover the life of their dreams.
Download or read book Wildflowers and Train Whistles written by Lillian Frazer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sissy Crone, a coal camp kid, brings to life the faded past of her hometown, Minden, West Virginia, through a collection of stories told firsthand of heartache and loss, balanced by glorious triumphs. Sissy brings us along as a companion through her early years in a childhood that could never exist in a modern world. Wildflowers and Train Whistles is a book about an ordinary family that survives extraordinary challenges as a coal camp family living in hardscrabble times of the 1950s. She and her six siblings color a dark, damp coal camp town with humorous antics and daring adventures to bring excitement to the hills near the New River Gorge.
Download or read book Branch Water Children written by Orva Lee McCarson Warren and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born amid the exciting roaring '20s, Orva Lee's childhood was far from charmed, and being the sixth of ten children of humble parentage made for some harsh times growing up during the depression years of the 1930s. But in this endearing tale, Branch Water Children, the author, Orva Lee McCarson Warren, describes those turbulent times through a wondrous perspective-though the eyes of an innocent child. You'll come to know the whole McCarson Clan: her forefathers who came from Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and England; her five brothers and four sisters; and the ones in between who fought in the American Civil War. As you read Branch Water Children, Orva Lee will take you back to your own childhood; to a time when simplicity and innocence, trust and unconditional love surrounded you as sure as the mountains surrounded the valley Orva Lee grew up as a child. You'll enjoy this wonderful story of survival of a family bound together by a proud heritage, a loving concern for one another, a fear and respect of God, an awareness and love of nature, simple living, and sheer hard work.
Download or read book Daily Warm Ups Reading Grade 5 written by Sarah Kartchner Clark and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing.
Download or read book Historic Tales of Sylva and Jackson County written by Jim Buchanan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before the coming of the four-lane, Jackson County was an insular community defined by geography - wedged in between the Great Smokies and Blue Ridge escarpment, bisected by thousands of miles of streams. The people who settled the area tended to be tough as pine knots but also tended to be salt-of-the-earth. This book offers tales of a time of transition in the area, when arguments over whether someone should opt to have an electric wire run to their home weren't far separated from quibbling over Internet service providers. Inside are tales from logging camps, fields, gardens and lonesome game trails and stories of challenges faced with the unique sense of mountain humor. Local columnist Jim Buchanan tells tales of bear hunts, cool springs and creatures great and small."--Back cover
Download or read book Indiana Summer written by Linda L. Graham and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Linda sets off to school for the first time, she is eager to learn to read actual words--not just repeat children’s stories from memory. Right away, however, she is confronted by ridicule. Growing up in Indiana during the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, Linda searches for approval and acceptance by classmates, teachers, and family members. Feeling isolated and often rejected, she turns to the magic and beauty of nature and animals, finding momentary companionship. In the compelling and often humorous memoir, Indiana Summer, Linda makes a discovery, but only after moving two thousand miles from rural Indiana, to the West Coast. Following the ordeal of a critical, endangering incident, she comes to a realization that changes her life.
Download or read book Outdoors USA written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outdoors U S A Yearbook of Agriculture 1967 written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yearbook of Agriculture written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone written by Janice N. Harrington and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington's manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living a hardscrabble life in the rural South more than sixty years ago. Set on the cusp of the Civil Rights era, the poems chronicle a way of life that has long since vanished."--Elizabeth Spires, from the foreword Janice N. Harrington is an award-winning children's book author and a nationally recognized storyteller. She works as a librarian in Champaign, Illinois.
Download or read book The Stone Thrower written by Jael Ealey Richardson and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’s legendary past in football. At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father — former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey — for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his fortieth high school reunion. Knowing very little about her father’s past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her father’s move from the projects of Portsmouth, Ohio to Canada’s professional football league in the early 1970s. At the railroad tracks where her father first learned to throw with stones, Jael begins an unexpected journey into her family’s past. In this engaging father-daughter memoir, Richardson records some of her father’s never-before told stories: his relationship with his absentee father, memories of his high school and college football victories – including a winning record that remains unbroken to this day – and his up-and-down relationship with the woman he would one day marry. As Richardson begins unravelling the story of her father’s life, she begins to compare her own childhood growing up in Canada, with her father’s US civil rights era upbringing. Along the way, she also discovers the real reason – despite his athletic accomplishments – her father was never drafted into the National Football League. The Stone Thrower is a moving story about race and destiny written by a daughter looking for answers about her own black history. Using insightful interviews, archival records and her personal reflections, Richardson’s journey to learn about her father’s past leads her to her own important discoveries about herself, and what it really means to be black in Canada.
Download or read book June Bug written by Chris Fabry and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of War Room comes a Christy Award finalist, now a Lifetime original movie called Child of Grace. “I believed everything my daddy told me until I walked into Wal-Mart and saw my picture on a little poster . . .” For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Wal-Mart. One morning, as she walks past the greeter at the front of the store, her eyes are drawn to the pictures of missing children, where she is shocked to see herself. This discovery begins a quest for the truth about her father, the mother he rarely speaks about, and ultimately herself. But when her father’s past catches up with them, forces beyond his control draw them back to Dogwood, West Virginia, down a winding path that will change their lives forever.
Download or read book Flemish Fries written by Mark Leysen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weapons of mass destruction, Nazi occupation, deprivation, assassination, God, immigration, assimilation, the American Dream, infidelity, success, failure and redemption are just some of the ingredients sprinkled into FLEMISH FRIES - a novel of one family's journey from Antwerp, Belgium to America. Intrigued by the promise of year-around sunshine, the Vos family immigrates to California after surviving the dark days of World War II. Assimilation is the new challenge, and Willem, the youngest son, is told by his father to learn English in three months or else. Hugo, the eldest at sixteen, is ordered to find a job immediately. Heartbreaking, heartwarming, and equally comical, FLEMISH FRIES turns a sharp eye towards Americanization, which brings diametrically different results to each family member. Late in life, Willem returns to Antwerp for a three week visit to the city of his birth. He is sixty and it has been forty years since his last visit, and now he must face a crucial life altering decision.
Download or read book The Unicorn Glade written by Willa Dawn Cotton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Life was good for Baby Gin. Growing up in the rural South, she was the apple of her daddy's eye and was coddled and spoiled by a loving housekeeper and an elder brother who thought she could do no wrong. And she was in love. Baby Gin lived for the summers when she knew Cary Ellington would come to stay with his grandfather. She had grand designs for marrying him when she was all grown up. Of course, she took for granted that Cary would see things the same way. It never occurred to her that a ten-year age difference would be of consequence to him. But we all know what they say about a woman scorned. The Unicorn Glade is a coming-of-age story of a girl's quest for understanding of the world around her, especially when she realizes that she can't always get what she wants. It is a journey of self discovery and self realization, of finding her way out of darkness and learning to see beauty in the world even when things do not feel so beautiful. Written in a style evocative of the South, the book is peopled by a host of quirky characters who live in and around the small town of Indianola, Mississippi. The author's smooth, soothing, sometimes rambling prose brings to mind hot summer nights and warm gentle breezes, and will have you reaching for a cool mint julep by the end of the first page. A light-hearted, humorous, and often irreverent book, it is filled with anecdotes and old Southern expressions, with a heaping helping of gossip served on the side.
Download or read book That Melvin Bray written by Margaret McBride and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt story about friendship, hope, and forgiveness: two childhood friends, Maggie and Lizzy, seek self-discovery and personal healing. They ultimately find inspiration after searching to reveal the reasons for Maggie’s lifelong tendencies toward self-denial as the “great pretender.” A courageous book which stirs the soul, this novel demonstrates that the written word is far from silent. This journey of healing undoubtedly leaves a lasting impression, as it not only provides divine inspiration to accept life’s disappointments but also recognition of the compelling power of forgiveness. After all, if the heart truly forgives, there is nothing to forget. ENDORSEMENTS: “Like brisk winds over calm waters—this story stirs the heart to find forgiveness and the soul to heal. Where the sacred and profane converge, Margaret McBride embraces divine inspiration!” —Katrina Arnim, consultant “Great feel-good book! The folksy language and loveable characters drew me in as I anticipated the meaning of the hints sprinkled along the way. The end was fantastic—filled with surprising ‘ah-ha’ moments and shocking twists.” —Kim Stiles, author of Motivation for Mom series “Although That Melvin Bray is a novel that unravels a mystery, it is also a story about friendship as growing old together is also the ability of staying “young together.” A friend is often a mirror of ourselves—this novel is a marvelous reflection of a very comfortable, trusting friendship.” —NY Times bestselling author G.B. Giorgio “That Melvin Bray filled my heart with joy, laughter, humility, reverence, and rage. Margaret McBride has combined all those emotions to create an unforgettable memory for every reader to share.” —Maureen Mayberry, landscape artist
