Seventeen-year-old Angie, who lives with her family in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.
Donkeys by the hundreds! Twelve-year-old Chico Filippo, whose own donkeys were confiscated years before by the German army, can t stay away from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, thousands of supply mules and donkeys are processed and sent onto the fierce mountain fighting in the Apennines. One of the handlers introduces Chico to a small courageous animal the boy names Sergeant Donkey. Drawn into friendship and then into unexpected danger, Chico must demonstrate his own simple courage. More than an animal or war story, this short book has a depth of truth about people of different ages and nationalities who still share a common love of the land and of human dignity. Age 8-up
Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of English in institutions of higher education in the United States. Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this discipline and many of the key individuals involved in its development. Drawing on archival and oral evidence, this history offers a comprehensive and systematic investigation of scholarly journals, the editors who directed them, and the authors who contributed to them, demonstrating the influence that publications and participants have had in the emergence of rhetoric and composition as an independent field of study. Goggin considers the complex struggles in which scholars and teachers engaged to stake ground and to construct a professional and disciplinary identity. She identifies major debates and controversies that ignited as the discipline emerged and analyzes how the editors and contributors to the major scholarly journals helped to shape, and in turn were shaped by, the field of rhetoric and composition. She also coins a new term--discipliniographer--to describe those who write the field through authoring and authorizing work, thus creating the social and political contexts in which the discipline emerged. The research presented here demonstrates clearly how disciplines are social products, born of political struggles for both intellectual and material spaces.
When Retta moves with her family to California, she is delighted when her boyfriend Dallas gets a summer job there to be near her, but she soon discovers that true love has other obstacles to surmount.
This captivating little book will please both child and adult as it combines rhymed verse with original, hand-drawn illustrations to evoke a gleeful primer on the world's premier marathon and its many careers. Inspired by the humanitarian and historical impact of the New York City Marathon, the Seussical verse and pen-and-ink drawings mark this as an unprecedented treatment of professional sport; parents may read it aloud to children, teenagers may reference it for career ideas, and anyone at all can take it as a tiny little tour through the sights and sounds of a famous event in New York City. Many readers will recognize favorite marathon moments and historical grace-notes, but they will also giggle at the cartoons and appreciate the highlighting of the unsung "un-running" careers, from engineer to musician, that fortify the city's greatest November party, an apolitical convention in the season of politics, and an exemplar of productive international relationships. The New York City Marathon, founded by Fred Lebow and today shaped by the technical brilliance of race director Alan Steinfeld, is orchestrated by the New York Road Runners, the largest running organization in the world. Its website is www.nyrrc.org. Visit, and enjoy!
Reframing the scholarship on women and material culture, this three-volume set explores how women from widely different times and places made meaning-and formed identities-through the materials they created and consumed. The volumes focus respectively on the fiber arts, consumption and collecting, and the production of material objects.
DId you ever wonder what a typical day was like for a paranormal sensitive? Here are some examples. It isn't easy, but it can be afterlife affirming, interesting, and rewarding when you can help people and help spirits to cross over to the other side. It's not like the movies. Most spirits are not inherently evil but rather confused, scared, and sad. Anyone can tap into their sixth sense if you really listen to your intuition. Yes, sometimes it can be turned on and off at will when necessary. Talk aloud to your Angels and Spirit Guides, loved ones that have passed, and the Being of Light (God) for daily assistance and see the remarkable change in the smoothness of your life path. Come into my world.
High school junior Retta Caldwell finds her life suddenly complicated two strong and troubling forces, a new highway that threatens to destroy her family's land and the arrival of an enigmatic and secretive boy for whom she feels an overwhelming attractio
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