The Yellow Bus Boys
Author: Ron Shaw
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781623290573
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The Canyon Kids
Author: Shimon Camiel
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006-08
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0595401864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1930-40's adventure, tells us about a Jewish boy, coming-of-age. As World War II breaks out, the neighborhood kids spend much of their time in the nearby canyons which offer a perfect hideout: a place for adventures, and mischief. Stanton and his "canyon kids" played war and learned about life. Their parents were busy working for the war effort, giving the kids lots of unsupervised time. The Canyon Kids share their stories of adventure, initiation rites, mischief, troublemaking, first dates and just having fun. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty.
The Boy in the Yellow Dress
Author: Victor Marsh
Publisher: Clouds of Magellan
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1742984096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerth in the 1950s. After being caught wearing his mother's yellow dress, young Victor had to hide any tendency towards gender inappropriate behaviour. But his interest in dancing and theatre (and mooning over Rudolph Nureyev on the telly) were bound to make the facade collapse at some point. Emerging sexuality and the sense of not being 'at home' in his body, let alone the world, ran alongside a search for meaning that brought him eventually to a spiritual awakening under the young guru Maharaji...Part family tragedy, part existential comedy, The Boy in the Yellow Dress is a warts-and-all account of exile and the subsequent journey homewards that is less about finding a respectable place in the world than an intimate connection with the ultimate source of being. If ever a memoir captured the Zeitgeist, it's this one... Wise, funny, surprising at every turn... More than a portrait of growing up gay, it chronicles the wild search for meaning of an entire generation.Amanda Lohrey (2012 Patrick White Award Winner)
The Yellow Bus
Author: Loren Long
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 1250368030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for fans of Love and Hello, Lighthouse, The Yellow Bus from #1 New York Times bestselling Loren Long is a tender and hopeful new classic about a forgotten school bus that finds happiness and purpose in the most unexpected places--and in the journey along the way. There is a bright yellow bus who spends her days driving. She loves carrying children from one important place to another. Every morning they climb in... Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, giggle, giggle-patter. And they fill her with joy. As time passes, things change. The Yellow Bus gets a new driver, a new route, and new passengers, young and old. Until one day the driving stops for good, and the Yellow Bus is left on her own. And yet, no matter where she is, the Yellow Bus still finds joy and discovery in the world around her. With stirring black-and-white artwork and powerful pops of color, The Yellow Bus is a poignant reflection on the many new beginnings life has to offer.
All-American
Author: John R. Tunis
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1453221115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a sports rivalry nearly turns deadly, Ronald Perry finds himself caught between what he knows and what he knows is right The long-standing tension between the Academy and the High School often becomes heated, especially when the two schools face each other on the football field. But when Ronald Perry, the star of the Academy team, nearly kills Meyer Goldman, a boy playing for the High School, in a dangerously hard tackle, Ronny is horrified. He swears he’ll never play football again. Back in school, Ronny is even more shocked by the attitude of his Academy friends and teammates, who tell him not to be so hard on himself—because Goldman is Jewish. Unable to ignore the remorse he feels, Ronny decides to transfer to the High School. But when his new classmates dismiss him as a snob, he realizes that he’ll have to work hard to break down this old rivalry.
Boys' Life
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1978-09
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Hey, Dad
Author: Sean Nguyen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1453565981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHey, Dad! is an incredible novel of a single father of three kids. His wife left him with three young kids. He stayed single to raise his kids. He also tried to find the other child he fathered when he was in high school at age fifteen. A few years later, he met a rich woman. At first, her family didn ́t agree with her decision to marry a single father of three kids. Her parents thought that he married her for money, but she truly loved him and he truly loved her. They married and had two sets of twins. He also found his other child after seventeen years. His three sons graduated from high school. His older son joined in military. His other two sons went to college. His life was going so good with a happy life as he had wished for. A few years later, his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. She passed away and left him with two sets of twins. His older son went to Iraq. His son ended up missing in Iraq. His life became a miserable. He lost his wife, and his son could die in Iraq.
A Little Boy And His Trains
Author: Dr. Gene (Dandy) Crumbley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2005-05-17
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 1477177434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book,“A Little Boy and His Trains“, came about because of a little boy and his love of trains and anything that had to do with trains. The book is an “almost true” story beginning with his very first train book which happened to be the famous little blue tank engine. Each page tells a story about a train toy that Craig had and played with, and train shows, train exhibits, or train rides which Craig and Dandy did together. One of the rides was an exciting trip to Plains, GA,the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. A color picture on each page shows exactly what that story is about, except on a couple of pages where permission to use a picture was not granted. This story really had it's beginning when Craig was visiting his grandfather whom he calls Dandy. They were on the porch and Craig was playing with one of his toy trains when a train horn sounded far off in the distance, and he wanted to "go find that train. So they hopped in the car and started out to find that train. After some time of riding up and down different roads, they finally saw the train, and then chased it, and beat it back to the town from where they started. In between the "first train book" and "chasing the train" are stories that children of any age will find very interesting and delightful. Parents and Grandparents will enjoy reading these stories to their children and grandchildren, and older children will enjoy putting themselves in Craig's shoes as they follow his adventures with the trains. This story is a true story except for one part, which makes it an "almost true"story. It is up to the reader to guess which part that is!
California Boy
Author: Leo Craton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1481721860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalifornia Boy is a collection of funny stories about growing up in California during the 40s and 50s. They relate the adventures, odd happenings and unusual events of a youngster in a squirrely and transient family. We moved from town to town and school to school, 14 in all. I was suspended from grammar school because of the Holy Ghost, sank in a canoe in the Newport Beach bay and went on a clamming safari along the West Coast with a young family. These and other humorous and upbeat vignettes describe how life was at that time. Come with me on a fun filled trip down memory lane when there were no TVs, when Rock & Roll ruled, and Ike was at the top of his game. Growing up with a constantly changing cast of characters and whimsical happenings of a past era is an easy read and will make you smile, laugh out loud and remember the good old days.
Jennie's Boy
Author: Wayne Johnston
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: 2023-02-07
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1586423622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who raised him A book to be relished by lovers of such works as The Glass Castle, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and Angela's Ashes Everything readers love about consummate storyteller and beloved bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston's work is on full display in Jennie’s Boy: incredible characters, brilliant language, and a deep sense of place. Wayne Johnston’s family — his mother, father, and three brothers — were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie was from: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road. Everyone knew him as “Jennie’s boy,” and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne’s sickly, skinny condition — he had to spend much of his time in a bed on wheels that was moved from room to room. While his brothers went off to school, Wayne passed his days with his witty, eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, whose son Leonard had died at the age of seven and whose photo stood alongside a statue of the Blessed Virgin. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which Newfoundlanders are known. By that wit, and by their love for each other — so often expressed in the most unloving ways — he, and they, survived.
