[PDF] The Last Mans Reward eBook

Author : David Patneaude
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807543721

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1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library 1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington) 1999 Utah Children's Book Award Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000, their lives seem to narrow and intensify. The boys devise a "last man" contest—the winner gets the Mays card, and the losers get zip. Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death reason for winning the card—and his own very special terrors aobut the abandoned mine where the boys have hidden it for safekeeping. Just how far is Albert willing to go to be the last man?

Author : David Patneaude
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780780789579

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In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Andrew asks the gruff P.E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper.

Author : Elaine Lewinnek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199769222

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"Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership. They imagined homes as small businesses, homes that were simultaneously a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space that workers hoped to control. Leapfrogging out of town along with Chicago's assembly-line factories, Chicago's early suburbs were remarkably diverse. These suburbs were marketed with the elusive promise that homeownership might offer some bulwark against the vicissitudes of industrial capitalism, that homes might be "better than a bank for a poor man, " in the words of one evocative advertisement, and "the working man's reward." This promise evolved into what Lewinnek terms "the mortgages of whiteness:" the hope that property values might increase if that property could be kept white. Suburbs also developed through nineteenth-century notions of the gendered respectability of domesticity, early ideas about city planning and land economics, as well as an evolving twentieth-century discourse about the racial attributes of property values. Because Chicago presented itself as a paradigmatic American city and because numerous Chicago-based experts eventually instituted national real-estate programs, Chicago's early growth affected the growth of twentieth-century America. Framed by two working-class riots against suburbanization in 1872 and 1919, spurred from both above and below, this work shows how Chicagoans helped form America's urban sprawl and examines the roots of America's suburbanization, synthesizing the new suburban history into the diversity of America's suburbs"--

Author : Thomas Beer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368375229

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