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Author: Tom Bodett
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Published: 2006-10-10
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0553494937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young boy living in the Final Frontier of rugged Alaska struggles to find his place in the world, in a story of his adolescence, from age 13 to 16, told through a collection of fifteen related stories about his life, relationships, family, and future dreams. Reprint.
Author: Nigel Richardson
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Published: 2008-02-12
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0375846557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair was born with huge, strange hands. He was also born with a secret. The only time he ever told someone his secret, it got him into big trouble. So he won’t be telling anyone ever again—or so he thinks. In this suspenseful and magical debut novel, Graham finds his life suddenly, thrillingly complicated—and his secret harder and harder to conceal.
Author: Tim Tharp
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-12-24
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307486818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a small Oklahoma town, one star linebacker must decide what kind of man he wants to be--both on and off the field. Welcome to Kennisaw--where Friday night high school football ranks right up there with God and country, and sometimes even comes in first. This year, the Kennisaw Knights are going for their fifth straight undefeated season, and if they succeed, they'll be more than the best high school team in the eastern Oklahoma hill country--they'll be legends. But the Knights' legacy is a heavy weight to carry for Hampton, linebacker and star of the team. On the field, he's so in control you'd think he was able to stop time. But his life off the field is a different story. His father walked out on him and his mom years ago, and now his mom has a new boyfriend every week. He's drawn to a smart, quirky girl at school--the type a star athlete just isn't supposed to associate with. And meanwhile, his best friend and teammate Blaine--the true friend who first introduced Hampton to football back when he had nothing else--is becoming uncomfortably competitive, and he's demanding Hampton's loyalty even as Hampton thinks he's going too far. This unforgettable novel is the story of a boy whose choices will decide the kind of man he becomes, and raises powerful questions about sportsmanship, loyalty, and the deceptiveness of legends.
Author: Karl Kroeber
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780803227576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIshi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era?Ishi, the last Yahi. After decades of concealment from genocidal attacks on his people in California, Ishi (ca. 1860?1916) came out of hiding in 1911 and lived the last five years of his life in the University of California Anthropological Museum in San Francisco. ø Contributors to this volume illuminate Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A. L. Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his enduring and evolving legacy for the twenty-first century. Ishi in Three Centuries features recent analytic translations of Ishi?s stories, new information on his language, craft skills, and his personal life in San Francisco, with reminiscences of those who knew him and A. L. Kroeber. Multiple sides of the repatriation controversy are showcased and given equal weight. Especially valuable are discussions by Native American writers and artists, including Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, and Frank Tuttle, of how Ishi continues to inspire the creative imagination of American Indians.
Author: Victoria McKernan
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0307545660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear. Within months, the Endurance, trapped and crushed by ice, sank. And even Perce, the youngest member of the stranded crew, knew there was no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own. Victoria McKernan deftly weaves the hard-to-fathom facts of this famous voyage into an epic, edge-of-your-seat survival novel.
Author: Sharon Grover
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0838911072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAudiobooks not only present excellent opportunities to engage the attention of young people but also advance literacy. Learn how the format can support national learning standards and literacy skills in the K-12 curricula.
Author: Tom Bodett
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780553287578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Alaskan author's radio show is the basis for his observations of the characters who live in the place where the land ends and the sea begins.
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Bodett
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2000-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780756905460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn their father's absence, 13-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
