Download or read book James the Rock s Boys written by Thalia Wiggins and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In James the Rock's Boys, James McNair's cousin Greg has won Trinidad Community's "My Dreams of Tomorrow Today!" mural contest. James has been forced to help Greg and other volunteers paint the mural and clean up the park. James wishes he could get the same respect and attention Greg is getting. Maybe someday when he's a famous basketball player it will happen. But right now, the losing contestant and his friends are using graffiti to show who should have won. James decides Rock's Boys are going to pay back the Crush 'Em Boys with some graffiti of their own. This leads to war, and to Greg's mural being destroyed. Will James choose to help Greg get revenge? Or will he surprise everyone and change his future in the process? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
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Download or read book The Boy who Found the King written by Raymond Macdonald Alden and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chief Storyteller of the kingdom had just died, and it was no simple matter to choose his successor. A contest would be held, a Tournament of Stories, to determine the best storyteller and the new Chief Storyteller. This is a collection of the stories told at the tournament.
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Download or read book Sons of War written by Carl J. Barger and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sons of War is the epic tale of a family who immigrated to America from Wurttemberg, Germany in the 1770s. In 1859, their descendants lived on a one-hundred-acre farm in Moniteau County, Missouri. In the early 1860s, the nation was divided by the Civil War and three sons of the family joined the Missouri 26th Infantry. Their triumphs and hardships were shared with family and loved ones through letters from the battlefields of a war-torn nation. Sons of War gives insight into what it was like to be a pioneer – their struggles, their successes and failures, their abiding religious convictions – and their dedication in fighting for what they believed.
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