[PDF] Freedoms Tree eBook

Author : Kenneth Lippincott
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149085813X

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Have you ever desired to escape and live simply? Have you ever fantasized about moving to a small town? Having spent half of my forty-three year career as a high school principal and volunteer pastor in small towns and counties with less than five thousand people, I learned that bliss was superficial. No matter how positive, people resisted change, especially with a newcomer serving as the agent of change. Kinfolk mattered more than issues. To survive, newcomers walked a fine line and had to learn who controlled and who was related to whom. Relationships mattered more than issues. Good versus evil became obvious. In Freedom's Tree, Rock Creek Valley resembled Canaanite cities with heavily fortified bulwarks. Interstate highway construction had decimated the economy and school reorganization altered valley culture. Perceived as invaders, newcomers arrived in Rock Creek at God's direction, while a murderer escaped detection and residents presumed another's guilt.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824818234

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This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard to distinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changing world.

Author : Rebecca Caudill
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1504025172

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A Newbery Honor Book: During the Revolutionary War, a courageous pioneer girl fights for freedom When thirteen-year-old Stephanie Venable moves with her family from North Carolina to a four-hundred-acre homestead in Kentucky, she knows they’re in for a great adventure. The family sells whatever belongings they can’t fit in their covered wagon, and begin the long journey west. But Stephanie has brought something special with her, an apple seed from their tree back home, just as her grandmother did when she moved from France to America. In Kentucky, the Venables must fell trees, build a cabin, and prepare the land for crops. Being a pioneer is a lot of work, but it’s also very exciting: Stephanie and her family must grow, catch, or hunt everything they need to eat and survive. With the Revolutionary War also moving west, the family faces threats from British sympathizers and American rebels. Will freedom take root in America, like Stephanie’s young apple tree, or will the Venable family succumb to the hardships of frontier life?

Author : Susan VanHecke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1580895514

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Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historians as the "beginning of the end of slavery in America." One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared "contraband of war" and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. These "contrabands" made a home for themselves, building the first African American community in the country. In 1863, they bore witness to one of the first readings of the Emancipation Proclamation in the South—beneath the sheltering branches of the tree now known as Emancipation Oak.

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805086744

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Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.

Author : James Watson
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 9780141300320

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Sixteen-year-old Will from Newcastle arrives in Spain in 1936, when the country is engulfed by Civil War. He is fiercely Republican, but he finds his allies are disorganized, ill-equipped and untrained, but he is inspired by their courage and optimism, qualities which will help him in the months of fighting that lie ahead. Reissued.

Author : Kenneth Lippincott
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1490858121

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Have you ever desired to escape and live simply? Have you ever fantasized about moving to a small town? Having spent half of my forty-three year career as a high school principal and volunteer pastor in small towns and counties with less than five thousand people, I learned that bliss was superficial. No matter how positive, people resisted change, especially with a newcomer serving as the agent of change. Kinfolk mattered more than issues. To survive, newcomers walked a fine line and had to learn who controlled and who was related to whom. Relationships mattered more than issues. Good versus evil became obvious. In Freedom’s Tree, Rock Creek Valley resembled Canaanite cities with heavily fortified bulwarks. Interstate highway construction had decimated the economy and school reorganization altered valley culture. Perceived as invaders, newcomers arrived in Rock Creek at God’s direction, while a murderer escaped detection and residents presumed another’s guilt.

Author : Takashi Kobayashi
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1944937641

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Treedom is an exploration of Japan's most well-known treehouse builder Takashi Kobayashi. Takahashi, who has been featured in the New York Times and on Animal Planet's Treehouse Masters, as well as many television programs, newspapers, and magazines in Japan, examines being an outcast in a rigid society of rules and conformity and finding salvation in the trees. Treedom, filled with photography, poetry, and Takashi's personal accounts of treehouse building, describes how treehouse living is not just a lifestyle but a philosophy.