Author: Janet Taylor Lisle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481479768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Louise and her husband Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a 17th century Indian tribe.
The Crying Rocks
Author: Janet Taylor Lisle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481479768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Louise and her husband Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a 17th century Indian tribe.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481479768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Louise and her husband Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a 17th century Indian tribe.
The Crying Rocks
Author: Janet Taylor Lisle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481479776
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girl’s discovery of her startling past—and her search to understand her complicated present. Joelle’s height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. It’s no secret that she’s adopted, but where is she from? Aunt Mary Louise says she came from Chicago on a freight train, but the story doesn’t sit right with Joelle. There’s something more. She feels it. Carlos, the quiet boy in Joelle’s Spanish class, sees it. When he tells her that she looks like a girl in the town library’s old mural of Narragansett Indians, Joelle can’t help sneaking a look. She’s surprised by a flicker of recognition. And when Carlos tells her about the Crying Rocks, where the ghosts of Narragansett children are said to cry for their lost mothers, Joelle knows she must visit them. When they finally set out through the forest, neither she nor Carlos anticipates the power of the ancient place, or the revelations to be found there—about the pasts they’ve both buried, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in Joelle’s family.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481479776
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girl’s discovery of her startling past—and her search to understand her complicated present. Joelle’s height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. It’s no secret that she’s adopted, but where is she from? Aunt Mary Louise says she came from Chicago on a freight train, but the story doesn’t sit right with Joelle. There’s something more. She feels it. Carlos, the quiet boy in Joelle’s Spanish class, sees it. When he tells her that she looks like a girl in the town library’s old mural of Narragansett Indians, Joelle can’t help sneaking a look. She’s surprised by a flicker of recognition. And when Carlos tells her about the Crying Rocks, where the ghosts of Narragansett children are said to cry for their lost mothers, Joelle knows she must visit them. When they finally set out through the forest, neither she nor Carlos anticipates the power of the ancient place, or the revelations to be found there—about the pasts they’ve both buried, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in Joelle’s family.
Rocks Will Cry
Author: Scott Downing
Publisher: Wingdon Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
In this imaginative retelling of the Easter story, Abbi, an Easter bunny, hears the tale of the death and resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of a rock named Nate. Drawing inspiration from Jesus' words in Luke 19:40, Rocks Will Cry, describes the gospel account of Easter as if the rocks really were the ones telling the story. This is a perfect, short story, to read either alone or as a family and think about the events of the Christian holiday in a new way. Framed in the backdrop of an excited bunny delivering Easter joy, Rocks Will Cry also provides the perfect Easter craft/decoration to do with your kids to continue thinking about, enjoying and remembering the story far after you finish the book.
Publisher: Wingdon Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
In this imaginative retelling of the Easter story, Abbi, an Easter bunny, hears the tale of the death and resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of a rock named Nate. Drawing inspiration from Jesus' words in Luke 19:40, Rocks Will Cry, describes the gospel account of Easter as if the rocks really were the ones telling the story. This is a perfect, short story, to read either alone or as a family and think about the events of the Christian holiday in a new way. Framed in the backdrop of an excited bunny delivering Easter joy, Rocks Will Cry also provides the perfect Easter craft/decoration to do with your kids to continue thinking about, enjoying and remembering the story far after you finish the book.
Spirit of the New England Tribes
Author: William S. Simmons
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512603171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research with living Indians.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512603171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research with living Indians.
The Rock Cried Out
Author: Ellen Douglas
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 161703603X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This story of the modern South, of love denied and love fulfilled, is a powerful account of the potential for violence that underlies this country's passionate history. Ellen Douglas, a native of Mississippi and a prize-winning novelist of rare distinction, reveals the turbulent changes that rocked the South in the sixties and continue to this day. No event is predictable in this powerful novel. A young man who has spent several years in the North returns to his native Mississippi seeking rural peace. But solitude is not to be his, for soon he is caught up again in a traumatic event that happened seven years before in 1964--the death in an auto accident of the beautiful young cousin whom he loved. As the story unfolds, the people who were involved in that senseless tragedy reveal their part in it, and as they do, the reader becomes intensely involved not only in their lives but in what it means to be black or white in the modern South.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 161703603X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This story of the modern South, of love denied and love fulfilled, is a powerful account of the potential for violence that underlies this country's passionate history. Ellen Douglas, a native of Mississippi and a prize-winning novelist of rare distinction, reveals the turbulent changes that rocked the South in the sixties and continue to this day. No event is predictable in this powerful novel. A young man who has spent several years in the North returns to his native Mississippi seeking rural peace. But solitude is not to be his, for soon he is caught up again in a traumatic event that happened seven years before in 1964--the death in an auto accident of the beautiful young cousin whom he loved. As the story unfolds, the people who were involved in that senseless tragedy reveal their part in it, and as they do, the reader becomes intensely involved not only in their lives but in what it means to be black or white in the modern South.
Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity
Author: Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity
Author: Worcester Historical Society (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Cry of the Rocks
Author: Pixie Emslie
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1622125037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The mystique of mining has always fascinated people. Cry of the Rocks is a novel about the issues and dangers of deep rock mining. It describes life at Nkuti, a modern deep-rock platinum mine in post-apartheid South Africa, and takes the reader into the depths of the earth, to the grueling work-face as well as to the harsh reality of life above ground. But Cry of the Rocks is also a thriller, which includes kidnapping, a murder and an international conspiracy. With its modern multi-racial mix of characters, the story probes deeply into the lives of the people of Nkuti, where a mysterious man threatens the miners into sabotaging the mine while also carrying out two kidnappings. Then a series of rock bursts trap dozens of miners below ground. Can the miners be saved? The novel gives good insight into mining, as shift upon shift of thousands of hard men descend into the bowels of the earth to pick and blast their way through tons of rock in conditions of heat, humidity, lack of air and light.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1622125037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The mystique of mining has always fascinated people. Cry of the Rocks is a novel about the issues and dangers of deep rock mining. It describes life at Nkuti, a modern deep-rock platinum mine in post-apartheid South Africa, and takes the reader into the depths of the earth, to the grueling work-face as well as to the harsh reality of life above ground. But Cry of the Rocks is also a thriller, which includes kidnapping, a murder and an international conspiracy. With its modern multi-racial mix of characters, the story probes deeply into the lives of the people of Nkuti, where a mysterious man threatens the miners into sabotaging the mine while also carrying out two kidnappings. Then a series of rock bursts trap dozens of miners below ground. Can the miners be saved? The novel gives good insight into mining, as shift upon shift of thousands of hard men descend into the bowels of the earth to pick and blast their way through tons of rock in conditions of heat, humidity, lack of air and light.
How I Talk to Horses
Author: Margo Ragland Reid
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457555301
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Fourteen years ago I bought Missy. She was incredible, had a bad attitude and she hated me. I immediately decided, buying Missy was the stupidest thing I’d ever done, until she talked to me. Missy first talked when she really wanted something, tried to get it herself and failed. In frustration, she turned to me and asked me to get it for her. When she asked, she said it clearly, in complete sentences. She was surprised that I understood and got it for her. I was amazed that she asked so clearly. I’ve paid attention ever since. Now, Missy talks all the time. Once I got more horses, I realized, they all talk. If we don’t notice, horses give up and don’t try to talk to us anymore. We can learn how horses think, processes information and talk. I reject the term, “Breaking Horses”. I don’t want broken horses, so I don’t break them. I want spirited, intelligent, engaged horses. Breaking horses makes them anxious and reactive. Its archaic thinking, like controlling a wife was in the 50’s. This book explains…. How I talk to horses. How anyone can, if you learn how horses think and speak. How to earn your respected position in their herd, as their Leader. How to fi x incorrect or ill behavior, by telling them, “Wrong answer. Find a better answer.” How to show your horse what you want, have them trust you, become brave, and try. How to become confident and share that confidence with your horse, without arrogance. How to interpret what your horse is saying, by what your horse is showing you. How to help an abused horse overcome PTSD, learn to trust and feel safe with you. How to turn a reactive brain off, turn their thinking brain on, so they can respond and not react. How to read your horse’s ears, because ears say as much as their eyes say. How to approach a horse, who sees you with one eye, ask them for two eyes, and why it matters. How a horse’s brain is different than a human’s and what that means while you work with them. ………………………………………..............……………...”May your Horse ‘want to’ be with you”
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457555301
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Fourteen years ago I bought Missy. She was incredible, had a bad attitude and she hated me. I immediately decided, buying Missy was the stupidest thing I’d ever done, until she talked to me. Missy first talked when she really wanted something, tried to get it herself and failed. In frustration, she turned to me and asked me to get it for her. When she asked, she said it clearly, in complete sentences. She was surprised that I understood and got it for her. I was amazed that she asked so clearly. I’ve paid attention ever since. Now, Missy talks all the time. Once I got more horses, I realized, they all talk. If we don’t notice, horses give up and don’t try to talk to us anymore. We can learn how horses think, processes information and talk. I reject the term, “Breaking Horses”. I don’t want broken horses, so I don’t break them. I want spirited, intelligent, engaged horses. Breaking horses makes them anxious and reactive. Its archaic thinking, like controlling a wife was in the 50’s. This book explains…. How I talk to horses. How anyone can, if you learn how horses think and speak. How to earn your respected position in their herd, as their Leader. How to fi x incorrect or ill behavior, by telling them, “Wrong answer. Find a better answer.” How to show your horse what you want, have them trust you, become brave, and try. How to become confident and share that confidence with your horse, without arrogance. How to interpret what your horse is saying, by what your horse is showing you. How to help an abused horse overcome PTSD, learn to trust and feel safe with you. How to turn a reactive brain off, turn their thinking brain on, so they can respond and not react. How to read your horse’s ears, because ears say as much as their eyes say. How to approach a horse, who sees you with one eye, ask them for two eyes, and why it matters. How a horse’s brain is different than a human’s and what that means while you work with them. ………………………………………..............……………...”May your Horse ‘want to’ be with you”