Joseph's Big Ride

Joseph's Big Ride PDF Author: Terry Farish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554518081
Category : Bicycles
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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"A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship"--Publisher.

Joseph's Big Ride

Joseph's Big Ride PDF Author: Terry Farish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554518081
Category : Bicycles
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Book Description
"A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship"--Publisher.

Joseph's Big Ride

Joseph's Big Ride PDF Author: Terry Farish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554518050
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship. Joseph wants only one thing: to ride a bike. In the refugee camp where he lives, Joseph helps one of the older boys fix his bike, but he's too small to ride it. Joseph and his mother travel to America, where everything is strange and new. One day, he spots a red bike that seems just right for him! It belongs to a girl with a whoosh of curly hair. When Whoosh crashes her bike, Joseph offers to fix it. His big chance has finally come, except that Joseph doesn't know how to ride! He crashes a few times, picks himself up, and tries again, until suddenly, with a shout of triumph, he's riding the bike. Inspired by the author's interviews with refugee children from Sudan, this gentle story evokes the experience of a new immigrant. Vibrantly colorful paintings bring a warm and humorous portrait of friendship and diversity to life.

A Feast for Joseph

A Feast for Joseph PDF Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1773064398
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Joseph misses sharing meals with lots of people like he did back in the refugee camp, so when the neighbors finally come over, it’s a feast! A companion book to Joseph’s Big Ride, described in Kirkus as “a joyful, upbeat tale.” When Joseph and Mama lived in a refugee camp in East Africa, everyone cooked and ate together. And Joseph could always hear someone playing the awal. It’s much too quiet and lonely in his new home. Though Whoosh, the girl who lives upstairs, is friendly, Joseph misses having more people around, especially his grandmother, who still lives across the ocean. So he invites his relatives in the city to come for dinner, then he invites his teacher, then Whoosh and her mami — but everyone is too busy. Ever hopeful, Joseph picks the last greens from the garden. At least he and Mama will be ready to cook if someone comes. The next night Whoosh and her mami appear at the door with a big cake, and Whoosh and Joseph cook up a feast. A touching story about adjusting to a new home and the pleasure of cooking and sharing food with friends. Key Text Features glossary translations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Beautiful Blackbird

Beautiful Blackbird PDF Author: Ashley Bryan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665960272
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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With vibrant cut-paper collages, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner presents an adaptation of a folktale from Zimbabwe that celebrates the importance of appreciating one's own inner beauty. Full color.

Luis Paints the World

Luis Paints the World PDF Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1512406686
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Luis wishes Nico wasn't leaving for the Army. To show Nico he doesn't need to go, Luis begins a mural on the alleyway wall. Their house, the river, the Parque de las Ardillas—it's the world, all right there. Won't Nico miss Mami's sweet flan? What about their baseball games in the street? But as Luis awaits his brother's return from duty, his own world expands as well, through swooping paint and the help of their bustling Dominican neighborhood.

Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings

Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings PDF Author: Francie Latour
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1773060422
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow — the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt’s home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce’s paintings — the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the water, heroes who fought for and won the country’s independence. Through Haiti’s colors, the girl comes to understand this place her family calls home. And when the moment finally comes to have her own portrait painted for the first time, she begins to see herself in a new way, tracing her own history and identity through her aunt’s brush. Includes an author’s note and a glossary.

A Helluva Ride: How a Father-son Family Business Overcame Crisis to Achieve the American Dream

A Helluva Ride: How a Father-son Family Business Overcame Crisis to Achieve the American Dream PDF Author:
Publisher: Legacy of Smiles LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A highly entertaining memoir and business book specifically designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs, family business members, and general readers to help find their passion and achieve their career goals.

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke PDF Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374279127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

Pure Red

Pure Red PDF Author: Danielle Joseph
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 073873084X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Orange is for energy, pink means love, and I, Cassia Bernard, do solemnly swear to find pure red—my passion—this summer. I’m giving basketball a chance. But what I really want to score this summer is Graham—a.k.a. Cutebutt. But when Dad agrees to mentor Graham with his art project, all of Cutebutt’s attention is on him—leaving me feeling colorless.

The Good Braider

The Good Braider PDF Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Amazon Children's Publishing
ISBN: 9781484430668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions