[PDF] Crane Boy eBook

Author : Diana Cohn
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1941026184

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Every year, Kinga and his classmates wait for the black-necked cranes to return to the kingdom of Bhutan. The birds fly south over the highest mountains in the word to winter in the valley where Kinga lives, deep in the Himalayas. The cranes have been visiting the valley since ancient times, but every year, fewer cranes return. Kinga is concerned. "What can he do?," he wonders. He and his classmates approach the monks for permission to create and perform a dance to honor the cranes and to remind the Bhutanese people of their duty to care for them. The monks caution them to first watch the cranes to see how they move and learn from them. The children watch and practice. And practice some more until the big day when they perform before the king of Bhutan. Diana Cohn is an educator and writer with an active commitment to social justice work. She has published six picture books for children. Crane Boy was inspired by two visits to Bhutan and by her interest in how cultural traditions evolve and adapt over time. Youme is an author, illustrator, and community-based artist who has worked internationally in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Her first book Selavi: That is Life won the 2005 Jane Addams Peace Award. Pitch Black: Don't Be Skerd, a graphic novel she co-authored with Anthony Horton, was named one of YALSA's Top Ten Great Graphic Novels in 2009.

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250235847

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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

Author : Allen Say
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054750487X

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There was a story that Mama read to Jiro: Once, in old Japan, a young woodcutter lived alone in a little cottage. One winter day he found a crane struggling in a snare and set it free. When Jiro looks out the window into Mr. Ozu’s garden, he sees a crane and remembers that story. Much like the crane, the legend comes to life—and, suddenly, Jiro finds himself in a world woven between dream and reality. Which is which? Allen Say creates a tale about many things at once: the power of story, the allure of the imagined, and the gossamer line between truth and fantasy. For who among us hasn’t imagined ourselves in our own favorite fairy tale?

Author : Sandy Fussell
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763653462

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Even though he has only one leg, Niya Moto is studying to be a samurai, and his five fellow-students are similarly burdened, but sensei Ki-Yaga, an ancient but legendary warrior, teaches them not only physical skills but mental and spiritual ones as well, so that they are well-equipped to face their most formidable opponents at the annual Samurai Games.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429912707

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The Texas Frontier, 1865 The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he left behind, Geneva Monahan. But Geneva has married in Rusty's long absence and the country is filled with hostiles—not just Indians, but hate-filled Confederates, overbearing Union soldiers, and army renegades. Rusty's youth as a captive of the Comanches returns to haunt him when, in pursuit of Indian raiders, he takes as prisoner Badger Boy, a white child taken from his murdered parents by a Comanche warrior. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Allen Say
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547350481

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As a young Japanese boy recovers from a bad chill, his mother busily folds origami paper into delicate silver cranes in preparation for the boy's very first Christmas.

Author : Nathalia Crane
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1924
Category : American poetry
ISBN :

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A collection of poems written by the author at the age of ten.

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Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1935955195

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Mali Under the Night Sky, a 2011 Skipping Stones honor book, is the true story of Laotian American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. Before the war began, Mali lived an idyllic life in a community where she felt safe and was much loved. But the coming war caused her family to flee to another country and a life that was less than ideal. What did she carry with her? She carried her memories. And they in turn carried her across the world, sharing where she is from and all that she loves with the people she meets. Terry Hong of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program’s BOOK DRAGON, giving context to Youme’s remarkable book, said, “Today, December 7, marks the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, ‘a date which will live in infamy,’… Seven decades later, infamy lives on, stealing childhoods, families, homes, lives. Now as another year comes to a close, we pray for peace … again and again … again and again … [Mali Under the Night Sky] is another hopeful, urgent prayer.” And the Midwest Book Review calls it “a soul-stirring picturebook about the difficulties faced by wartime refugees, and deserves the highest recommendation.” Youme Landowne is an energetic and joyful painter, book artist, and activist who thrives in the context of public art. Youme has lived in and learned from the United States, Kenya, Japan, Laos, Haiti, and Cuba. In all of these places, she has worked with communities and individuals to make art that honors personal and cultural wisdom, creating community murals, illustrating tiny books, and teaching poetry in schools.

Author : Dan Wieral
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2020-09-23
Category :
ISBN :

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Mickey Crane was the hardest street fighter on the neo-Nazi scene. As leader of the National Front Leaders Guard, a bunch of neo-Nazi thugs formed to protect their leader, John Tyndall, from Red Action and other left-wing scumbags, Crane was at the heart of much of the violence that was dished out on blacks and other people from ethnic minorities throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Famous for coining the term Paki bashing, which involved attacking Asians with fists, boots, and baseball bats, Crane would tear into his opponents with such ferocity that even his fellow Nazis viewed him with some trepidation. He is best remembered for his fight with Harry the Dog, a notorious football hooligan, which many not only regard as the most bloody fight of the century, but one which occurred after Harry had turned up at his house with a shotgun threatening to blow his head off for injuries sustained during a previous encounter.

Author : Molly Bang
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 1987-07-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688073336

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Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.