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For his 15th birthday in 1805, Noah Blake's parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which he recorded the various activities on his father's farm. This reprint of the actual book provides today's readers with a charming rarity--a view of bygone days through the eyes of a young boy. Eric Sloane has taken the notebook with its brief comments and expanded the daily entries with explanatory narrative and 72 of his own delightful drawings. Verbal...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Set against a backdrop of early twentieth-century Africa, an Africa that no longer exists, beryl Markham, a gifted and lyrical storyteller, eloquently describes her extraordinary life as a pioneer aviator, a breeder of race horses, and a child growing up in a sparsely populated area of British east Africa. Illustrating this awe-inspiring life story expands our appreciation of the marvelous adventure that was her life.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deserved
Paula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers. Borrowed Finery, her first book in nearly a decade, is an astonishing memoir of her highly unusual beginnings.
Born in the twenties to nomadic, bohemian parents, Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage,...
7) My childhood
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
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My Childhood is an autobiographical work by Maxim Gorky.
8) Growing up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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This Pulitzer Prize-winner is "the saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depresson years and World War II that has ever been written."—Harrison Salisbury.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A warmly charming autobiographical remembrance of the author's life with his Eastern Cherokee Hill country grandparents. Written by the author of Outlaw Josey Wales this is his touching account of 1930s depression-era life and a moving description of the lessons he learned from his grandparents.
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English
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"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and his mother's ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view--dialogue,...
12) Silk parachute
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English
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A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES- IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES
The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"Recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history"--Provided by publisher.
19) Night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family... the death of his innocence... and the death of his God.
"When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience of the world." The whole of the president's eloquent tribute will appear as a foreword to this memorial edition of Night....
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