Download or read book Why Did Grandpa Cry written by Cathy Werling and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's never easy to stand up to your peers, even if it is the right thing to do. We all have the choice to stand by or stand up. Even though he faced bullies and threats, high school student Ken Reinhardt stood up for Elizabeth Eckford and the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend the all-white Arkansas school in 1957. Over four decades later, his granddaughter tried to make sense of why Ken cried whenever he talked about that time in his life. She soon discovered, not only what caused Grandpa's tears, but also a new found purpose in her own life. Why Did Grandpa Cry? is Ken's story, the first in a series of children's books telling the stories of the amazing Unsung Heroes featured at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes in Fort Scott, Kansas. By championing these Unsung Heroes, the Center helps students, educators and communities discover their own power and responsibility to effect positive change in the world. Cathy Werling, the author, is a retired elementary educator. Her passion for helping students develop positive character traits and seek out worthy role models led to her part time work at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes. Through her series of books about these humble heroes, Cathy hopes to inspire elementary children to truly be those people who make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Download or read book When Grandpa s Fairy Flew Away written by Melchora Damian Bilgera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Kyle, the major spectator of his 64 year old grandpa's forbidden love affair, is an eight years old boy, who is 2/3 white and 1/3 Filipino, raised in a multicultural setting where the Dot.com world reigns supreme. As he marvels the tranformation of his "Lolo"{ a Filipino term for grandfather}, from a bored, grouchy, old man to a "young Brad Pitt who is madly in love", Sean kyle hold hands with him while both face life's challenges with their songs, smiles, tears, laughters, anguish,and more songs! They cope safely by focusing on their flowering plants, their loving dogs, their love for books ,on their favorite games, music, and their endless discussions about the wonders and beauty of the Philippines. His grandpa's vibrant demeanor and lively responses to all life's eventualities drive Sean kyle to wonder and become more investigative. In the process he discovers that his grandpa and the other woman he dearly calls "Palangga" belong to another world unknown and unexposed by facebook, google or yahoo... a beautiful, ancient world where love is expressed not thru phone calls emails or texts but thru well written letters, flowers and serenades..a world of two teenagers in love who first met in Pangasinan, Philippines some four decades back. Sean's inquisitive and perceptive mind works vigorously to gather more data about them ...how they met 42 years later... His grandpa who has no inkling about Sean Kyle's discoveries, have dealt with Sean's questions regarding life's issues such as discrimination, sex, sex predators, mental and physical illnesses, credit card misuse and abuse, government corruption etc..with his unique, interactive way. His Lolo's examples and words of wisdom have a strong impact on Sean who has sharpened his critical thinking skills in the process. Sean realizes the dominant role of values, religion, and culture in people's behavior and ways of thinking thus affecting all aspects of their lives at times. When values, culture and religion attempt to create disaster on his grandpa's lovelife, Sean kyle shows fierce defiance and huge anger. Will culture be a blessing in this story or will it be a curse?! Only the readers could tell.
Download or read book Why Did Grandpa Die written by Barbara Shook Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goodbye Grandpa written by Jelleke Rijken and published by Clavis. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoughtful adults can use this simple book with its heartfelt text and solemn, cartoon animals to explain death to young children." - Kirkus Reviews Bear and Grandpa are going fishing today. But why is Grandpa sleeping in the grass? What is going on? "Grandpa is dead," Elephant says softly to his friend Bear. Bear starts to cry. Will he ever see Grandpa again? Chicken and Elephant comfort their friend and explain to him that Grandpa will be with him forever. They say goodbye to him in a beautiful way. A sensitive and honest story about loss, grief and friendship. For children ages 4 and up.
Download or read book The Christian Union written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whispers in the Cries written by Matthew Ewald and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How deep are you willing to go to unlock the mystery? ------------------------ A young hotshot journalist's life unravels in a web of mystery and horror when he is called back to a home and family he hasn't seen in over a decade. He returns home after the mysterious death of his grandfather, a WWII vet who has seen, first hand, the horrors of life and man. From the beaches of Normandy to the bitter cold of Bastogne; he was a respected hero and man of great strength both physically and mentally. A man who was confined to an asylum in the last weeks of his life; where he spoke of demonic entities, faceless spirits who tormented him relentlessly, and images depicting a black shadowed poltergeist in a top hat and grin. A "sniveling whelp," as he would once say, confined to an asylum where he carved and drew strange markings upon the floor, the ceiling, the walls; stories and tales told all leading to a nameless vessel. A ghost ship that has drank the most ancient of blood. Tasted the most ancient of flesh. A vessel that has now...awoken. Now hunted by the shadowed entity of his grandfather's past and its dark brethren of phantom wraiths, macabre menace, and demonic beasts, Randy Conroy must survive the nightmare his grandfather could not. "A first class ghost story....intensely visual!" Mister Lobo, (nationally syndicated horror host) "Matthew Ewald's love of horror is matched only by his love of mystery--the tale unfolds like a descriptive Film Noir in which the mysteries grab us long before we realize we are actually down a terrifying path into the horror genre..." -- Michele Specht (Corporal Simone Cole -- Clive Barker's "Jericho") "Take yourself into the hollowed bowels of the Queen Mary...then drown in Ewald's brutal and haunting prose." -- Wayne Allen Sallee (Five time Bram Stoker Award Nominee and author of "The Holy Terror," "With Wounds Still Wet," "Fiends By Torchlight," and the upcoming "Proactive Contrition")
Download or read book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Download or read book Words We Call Home written by Linda Svendsen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words We Call Home is a commemorative anthology celebrating more than twenty-five years of achievement for the UBC Creative Writing department -- the oldest writing program in Canada. The more than sixty poets, dramatists, and fiction writers included provide just a sample of the energy and vision the department has fostered over the years. From Earle Birney's pioneering efforts in 1946, to the birth of the department in 1965, to the present day, the programme has created a place for aspiring, talented writers.
Download or read book Mr Gabe written by Hershel Marise and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, I pray, expresses that the suffering a child endures because of a traumatic childhood does not have to be the determining factor in deciding the outcome of our lives. The kind of life trauma a child or anyone goes through should not, in any way, determine their ability to overcome these traumas and have a productive adult life. It is my belief that with a great Creator, God, and his divine intervention in our lives, we, as his children, will be carried through life’s traumatic experiences. It is my belief that I and all of humankind were created for a great purpose. The writing of this book, or its purpose, is not to gather sympathy, but the opposite, to explain that an individual does not have to allow their childhood or economic environment to set the standard for the rest of their lives. In my childhood, I attempted to subconsciously close myself off, mentally or emotionally, from what was occurring. This denial allowed me a way of surviving through early life. I called out to God, the great Creator, for help and guidance many times. Without the help and the great love of God, these traumas would probably have killed me from the shock. From an early age and throughout my adult life, I’ve had to find ways to deal with my traumatic past. With God and a drifter named Mr. Gabe who showed up at all the right times like a guardian angel who seemed to know a lot about the same God my grandmother talked about, I did survive throughout these traumas and have lived a relatively good life and achieved challenges that could only have been possible with God’s love.
Download or read book Fresh Off the Boat written by Eddie Huang and published by One World. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People “Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way, from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese, but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good: skate punks, dealers, hip-hop junkies, and sneaker freaks. This is the story of a Chinese-American kid in a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac blazing his way through America’s deviant subcultures, trying to find himself, ten thousand miles from his legacy and anchored only by his conflicted love for his family and his passion for food. Funny, moving, and stylistically inventive, Fresh Off the Boat is more than a radical reimagining of the immigrant memoir—it’s the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his destiny in the margins. Praise for Fresh Off the Boat “Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.”—New York Times Book Review “Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here. He does everything with style.”—Anthony Bourdain “Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest.”—Chicago Tribune “Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.”—Interview “Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won’t look or sound like anything that’s come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight.”—Bookforum
Download or read book Loving Edie written by Meredith May and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Honey Bus comes a wild and emotional memoir of family and self-discovery, featuring a lovable golden retriever named Edie Meredith May had a difficult childhood, with a mother who was physically present but emotionally absent. She learned early on to fend for herself, and never had to care for anyone else. When she and her wife, Jenn, adopt Edie, a sweet golden retriever puppy with saucer brown eyes and buttery white fur, Edie wins their hearts immediately. But it isn’t long after Edie joins the family that the problems begin. Edie is an unusually anxious dog. She cowers around most people and the slightest noise sends her into a frenzy. Edie’s fears become so intense that Meredith and Jenn can’t leave the house. Is this normal puppy behavior or something more? Meredith grows determined to fix Edie, but what will she do if Edie can’t be fixed? In this poignant and heartfelt memoir, Meredith shares her unforgettable journey with Edie, and the lessons about selflessness and unconditional love that she learns along the way. From treating Edie with CBD gummies to visiting a dog medium, Meredith shows just how far she is willing to go to save her dog. But maybe Edie is secretly the one doing the saving—if Meredith will only open her heart.
Download or read book The Crying Sea written by Paddy Cummins and published by Paddy Cummins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Olive Grove written by Deborah Rohan and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moghrabis have lived in Palestine for centuries. Near the end of the First World War, Ottoman soldier Kamal Moghrabi is imprisoned by his Turkish masters. Reunited with his family after being freed by British soldiers, he marries his childhood friend Haniya. But their happiness is short-lived as their homeland is ravaged by violence between the local Arab population and Jewish immigrants fleeing Europe. Any hope of an independent Palestine is shattered and the Moghrabis are forced to flee their home with its cherished olive groves. Based on a true story, this family saga is a universal depiction of Palestinian life and culture with a warm and engaging love story at its heart. 'Beautifully written ... insights behind the Palestinian conflict are gained in reading this heart-wrenching yet endearing tale of one family's journey.' -- Polly Bacca, former special assistant to President Bill Clinton
Download or read book Frank Leslie s Pleasant Hours written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gift from Grandpa written by Kirby J. Gallagher and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of his life was not faithful nor could it be called spiritual, that is, until he started to see the fallacy of his old beliefsbeliefs about everything he knewor thought he knew about his world. Words of wisdom began to emerge in unusual ways and from a most unlikely source. David Duncan lived three years longer than doctors predicted, but the cancer had suddenly overtaken his body, and he urgently needed to fulfill a promise, made several years before, to his ten-year-old grandson, Ryan. Gold stars, root beer, rainbow trout, and their own special handshake forged an unbreakable bond, but only David knew that his grandson was a Crystal child. David shared the same gift and made a promise to unveil its secrets to the boy, and pass on the legacy. Now, nestled beside his grandpas hospital bed, unaware of what he is about to hear and the gift he is about to receive, young Ryan eagerly awaits the story of his grandfathers quest for meaning, purpose, understanding of himself and this world, and his gift. Will David live to fulfill his promise? Passing the Torch to his Crystal Grandson.
Download or read book Where Did Grandpa Go written by Sara Parvinian M.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are curious and attentive to their surroundings. They observe and have questions even though they may not ask! The subject of death of a loved one like grandparents should not be a taboo or a hidden event with mysterious disappearance of the person! Children need to know as much as they can absorb and not more. This book might be a conversation starter to be used in similar situations. It is written and illustrated by a pediatrician with special interest in child development and behavior. All the proceeds of this book will be used to fund Grasp Foundation and its goals! (graspfoundation.org). The foundations website will be available soon, and the e-mail address is [email protected].
