Jake Jones has got the best left foot in his school. But Jake's dad is football-mad, and insists on standing at the sidelines causing havoc - until one day Mr Jones is given the red card.
Indiana Brown's parents are explorers who have just returned from trekking in the Amazon jungle - and insist on trying out their survival techniques at their son's school fete.
When Zoe and Zach Fourleaf's parents win the lottery, they can't wait to splash the cash. But Mr and Mrs Fourleaf have some pretty odd ideas about what's cool and soon it's millionaire mayhem. 6 yrs+
Amy Hitchin loves her parents' restaurant, Hitchin's Kitchen, where they make 'unusual' food to say the least. But when her parents swap places with the school dinner ladies for a week, Amy finds out just how embarrassing snail porridge can be.
Jessica Bell has always been proud of her popster mum, but now that her mum's getting older, it's all getting just the teeniest bit embarrassing - until Jess steps in to the rescue.
Bella Boffinbrain's headmaster is a real pain. He also happens to be her dad! When he sets up a school litter patrol team, Belinda's had enough. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known today for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretation of the current national park. Here, Teresa S. Moyer and Paul A. Shackel tell the behind-the-scenes story of how this event was chosen and preserved for commemoration, providing lessons for federal, state, local, and non-profit organizations who continually struggle over the dilemma about which past to present to the public. Professional and non-professional audiences alike will benefit from their important insights into how federal agencies interpret the past, and in turn shape public memory.
This study of collective American memory exposes the historical phenomenon of self-directed American imperialism, still frequently ignored or denied in the United States. Over the course of the 250 years of its history, this has taken the form of African American slavery, thwarted black motherhood, same-race slavery (both white and African American) as well as the extermination of indigenous American peoples. On the literary level, the study helps to broaden, or even modify, the present perspective on the oeuvres of four major American writers, i. e., William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy, by pointing to the intertwining of their themes, motifs, and techniques of writing to form an intricate pattern of the intertextualized collective memory of the American nation.
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