Author: M. D. Spenser Publisher: ISBN: 9781576573372 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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Growing up in Bearhead Holler, Amy Fay Jones had always been poor. There was a sketchy myth in her family about a long-lost fourtune, but the only person who insisted the story was true was Amy's senile grandmother.
Author: M. D. Spenser Publisher: ISBN: 9781576573365 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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Jill has an incredible ability to morph into anyone she wants to be. That talent soon becomes a mtter of critical importance for Jill.
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442441003 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 525
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An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
Author: Davy Crockett Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803263253 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 276
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Even as a pup, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunts, and his electioneering. His reputation as a b'ar hunter (he killed 105 in one season) sent him to Congress, and he was voted in and out as the price of cotton (and his relations with the Jacksonians) rose and fell. In 1834, when this autobiography appeared, Davy Crockett was already a folk hero with an eye on the White House. But a year later he would lose his seat in Congress and turn toward Texas and, ultimately, the Alamo.
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061749877 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 372
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Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.
Author: M. D. Spenser Publisher: ISBN: 9781576573341 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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Melvin and the science class take a tour of a new milk factory built on the banks of the Elkhorn River in Nebraska where he and a friend collect a sample of lagoon water which contains the deadly biological warfare agent anthrax.
Author: James Elkins Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135963568 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 343
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With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to possess: the affinity between the meanings of paintings and jigsaw-puzzles; the contemporary interest in ambiguity and 'levels of meaning'; and the penchant many have to interpret pictures by finding images hidden within them. Elkins explores a wide variety of examples, from the figures hidden in Renaissance paintings to Salvador Dali's paranoiac meditations on Millet's Angelus, from Persian miniature paintings to jigsaw-puzzles. He also examines some of the most vexed works in history, including Watteau's "meaningless" paintings, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, and Leonardo's Last Supper.
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Author: M. D. Spenser
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