Download or read book Because You re My Family written by Missy Robertson and published by Freedom Island. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BRAVE Books partnered with Missy Robertson to write "Because You're My Family," a Christian children's book that teaches kids about the importance of family and unconditional love.
Download or read book The Holland Family Saga Part One written by Clever Black and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Luck written by Jane Smiley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America. “Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making.” —USA Today 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.
Download or read book Mildred D Taylor The Logan Family Saga Complete Collection written by Mildred D. Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 10-book complete collection includes all the books in Mildred D. Taylor’s award-winning Logan Family Saga! In this digital package you’ll find: 1. Song of the Trees 2. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 3. Let the Circle Be Unbroken 4. The Gold Cadillac 5. The Friendship 6. Mississippi Bridge 7. The Road to Memphis 8. The Well 9. The Land 10. All the Days Past, All the Days to Come The Logan Family Saga follows the Logans, a tight-knit family who grapple with living in America during the 20th century. We follow this family as they experience prejudice, racism, and the major events that characterize our modern racial history. From the Great Depression to the Civil Rights movement, this gripping series will both educate and capture the hearts of all readers as they read about how Cassie Logan finds her voice in an era characterized by oppression, and the often violent confrontations that bring about change. AWARDS & ACCOLADES FOR THE LOGAN FAMILY SAGA Ms. Taylor’s first book in The Logan Family Saga, Song of the Trees received The Council on Interracial Books Award; her second, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was the winner of the Newbery Medal and a National Book Award finalist. Two other novels about the Logan family followed: Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Gold Cadillac, as well as a prequel, The Land; all three received The Coretta Scott King Award. Ms. Taylor is also author of The Friendship, her fourth Coretta Scott King Award winner; The Well, The Gold Cadillac, and Mississippi Bridge. In 2020, Ms. Taylor released her tenth and final installment of The Logan Family Saga, All the Days Past, All the Days to Come. In 2020 Ms. Taylor also received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Download or read book The Red and the White A Family Saga of the American West written by Andrew R. Graybill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. One of the American West’s bloodiest—and least-known—massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage. At dawn on January 23, 1870, four hundred men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan camp near the Marias River in Montana in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American military forces in U.S. history. Coming to avenge the murder of their father—a former fur-trader named Malcolm Clarke who had been killed four months earlier by their Piegan mother’s cousin—Clarke ’s own two sons joined the cavalry in a slaughter of many of their own relatives. In this groundbreaking work of American history, Andrew R. Graybill places the Marias Massacre within a larger, three-generation saga of the Clarke family, particularly illuminating the complex history of native-white intermarriage in the American Northwest.
Download or read book My Family Saga written by Vera Turner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer days of my ancestors were filled with struggles and hardships that tested their ingenuity, character and perseverance. Humor, love, compassion, loyalty, strong wills, and confidence to make decisions permeated my family lineage. Death of family members caused pain and demanded a resilience that is identified in the 'can do' attitude typical of my family. Migration during the Dust Bowl and Depression are highlighted their strength of character. Failure is not an option. The only way to fail is not to try.
Download or read book Travels with My Family written by Marie-Louise Gay and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue. Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while collecting sand dollars off the coast of Georgia, and mistaking alligators for logs in the middle of Okefenokee Swamp. Travels with My Family is told from the point of view of a long-suffering big brother who must fulfill many roles in this eccentric family: keep little brother out of trouble, humor artist Mom, and discourage Dad from pulling out the road map to search for yet another off-the-beaten-track destination. Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel and have combined their prodigious writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very different travelogue. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
Download or read book Out of Left Field written by Ellen Klages and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out to prove that she's not the only girl who plays baseball. With the help of friendly librarians and some tenacious research skills, Katy discovers the forgotten history of female ball players. Why does no one know about them? Where are they now? And how can one ten-year-old change people’s minds about what girls can do? Set in 1957—the world of Sputnik and Leave It to Beaver, saddle shoes and "Heartbreak Hotel"—Out of Left Field is both a detailed picture of a fascinating historic period and a timelessly inspiring story about standing up for equality at any age.
Download or read book The Island of Free Ice Cream written by Jack Posobiec and published by Freedom Island. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BRAVE Books partnered with Jack Posobiec to write The Island Of Free Ice Cream, a children's book that teaches kids that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Download or read book Paws Off My Cannon written by Brave Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When hyenas hit Mushroom Village, the animals want to ban all weapons. Bongo, however, believes his coconut cannons help the community stay safe and keep the hyenas away. Join Bongo as he explores the dangers and benefits of weapons, then lead your family through a lesson on Second Amendment rights with the activities included in the BRAVE Challenge at the end of the book.
Download or read book The Year My Family Unravelled written by Cynthia Dearborn and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Dearborn is struggling to convince her father, who has vascular dementia, to move into an aged care facility. He won't budge. Further complicating matters is the fact that Cynthia lives in Sydney, and her father in Seattle. Truth be told, it suits her to live halfway around the world from her family. Cynthia's attempts to get her father and stepmother into care, and to protect them from themselves and each other, drive this compelling memoir. But braided in is a deeply moving and surprising backstory about Cynthia's tumultuous childhood and the difficult relationships she had with both parents. The Year My Family Unravelled continues to surprise right to the last page. Despite heavy subject matter - mental decline, illness, abuse, death - this is a memoir of buoyancy and hope. Ultimately, it is a story about redemption, self-worth, and the tangled and often contradictory impulses of love.
Download or read book My Family Compass written by Ann Stone and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ring around the Rosie A pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! As a little girl growing up singing Ring Around the Rosie, little did I know, that this would become our family ballad. My maternal grandpa used to say, One day this family will destroy itself! How could I possibly understand what that meant? But I remember him saying it, all the same. Grandpas prediction now rings true, as our family did destroy itself and fell to the ashes with the final act of our mothers passing. She left a carefully woven Gordian knot through deceptive means in her death wake of such vast proportion and complexity that it may never unravel. The death and passing of a loved one is difficult, even under the best of circumstances. But if the ties that bind left behind unaddressed confusion, misunderstandings, and/or deceit, the pain can run deep and leave a lasting nonnegotiable imprint, limited not to just one member, but the entire family for generations to come.
Download or read book My Father s Paradise written by Ariel Sabar and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.
Download or read book The Sandcastle Girls written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the Armenian Genocide during WWI. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It’s 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. There she meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. After leaving Aleppo and traveling into Egypt to join the British Army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, realizing that he has fallen in love with the wealthy young American. Years later, their American granddaughter, Laura, embarks on a journey back through her family’s history, uncovering a story of love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
Download or read book Family Saga written by Bole Butake and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ouderkerk Family Saga written by Henry John Ouderkirk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Janse Ouderkerk, emigrated from the Netherlands to New York. He married Aariantje in about 1669. They had six children born between 1670 and 1691. Jan died after 1712 in Albany, New York. Descendants lived in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Idaho, Utah, Ontario and elsewhere.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders written by Carl Phelpstead and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source traditions and thematic concerns interact. Including an overview of the history of English translations that shows how they have been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for students of the literary form. A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
