Author: D. A-Gravill
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477249672
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 59
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Little Boy and Mr Scary Snake is the story of a child who has to do the right thing in order to face his fears. Little Boy, the protagonist, ends up doing the bravest thing he has ever had to do. Faced with adversity of every kind, he manages to extricate himself from his unfortunate predicament. It is the story of a child s rite of passage. During the course of the story, Little Boy must endure fear, ridicule, and the disbelief of well-meaning adults in his life. These kindly and well-intentioned grown-ups are easily identifi ed by their evocative names. Throughout the story from the moment he recognizes the difference between right and wrong in Mr Scary Snake s behaviour, to his disbelief when faced with the reality of the self-absorbed world of the adults who fail to understand his fears Little Boy goes through momentous thinking processes. When his cries about Mr Scary Snake fall on deaf ears, Little Boy becomes afraid of not being believed. His frustration almost overshadows his palpable fear of Mr Scary Snake. It is Little Boy s determination, internal values, morality, courage, resilience, sense of justice, and fi nally trust, which helps him to overcome and conquer his fears.
Author: D. A-Gravill
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The story "Little Boy and Mr Scary Snake" was written by Aurora Mizutani and originally published in 2012-2013, under the pen name D. A-Gravill. The story "Little Boy and Mr Scary Snake" follows a child who faces his fears and learns to do the right thing. Little Boy, the main character, demonstrates immense bravery in the face of adversity. Throughout the story, Little Boy encounters fear, ridicule, and disbelief from well-meaning adults in his life, who are identifiable by their descriptive names. The story depicts a coming-of-age journey for the child. As the story unfolds, Little Boy confronts difficult situations and undergoes significant thought processes. He experiences frustration and fear of not being believed when he tries to express his concerns about Mr Scary Snake to adults who fail to understand him. Little Boy's determination, values, courage, resilience, sense of justice, and finally trust enable him to overcome his fears and prevail. "Little Boy & Mr Scary Snake" was written to help children better understand the world around them. Through an engaging narrative, the book encourages children to participate and empathize with the character of Little Boy. The story also provides an opportunity for children to improve their communication skills and learn new words through context. The book is designed to help adults better understand children's feelings and behaviours and to promote emotional well-being. By addressing the topic of single-parent families, the book aims to help children relate and empathize with the main character and his surroundings. Overall, "Little Boy & Mr Scary Snake" aims to empower children to express their emotions and overcome adversity, with the help of individual counselling, group therapy, and support for parents and schools.
Author: Aurora Mizutani
Publisher: Aurora Mizutani
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Aurora Mizutani has written a book that questions everything we have ever thought about. “An African Abroad” is the memoir of one of Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala's children. Olabisi Ajala was a renowned journalist, traveller, and actor. The book briefly recollects the lifelong achievements of the author's father and highlights his interactions with his young daughter. “An African Abroad" is a collection of anecdotes that speaks to the reader about international adventures, friendships, relationships, trials, and tribulations. The first-person account addresses complex subjects, including teenage escapades, parental trauma, and redemption through political and historical self-re-education. The book invites the reader to adopt a realistic perspective (instead of burying their heads in the sand). It reveals her theory about the deep-rooted and biggest secret in the entertainment industry and shines a light on the prevailing darkness surrounding child exploitation and grooming. This fictionalised journal is written in a cynical yet uplifting instructive manner, where the narrator undergoes a state of censure to achieve her goal of contemplation, self-analysis and ultimately autonomy from socially imposed scruples. Spread into eleven chapters, “An African Abroad” transports the reader on a journey that depicts the narrator's character and growth.
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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 143494784X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Thomas S. Hawley, M.D.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in one of the premier fighting regiments of the Union Army. This collection of letters is important for two reasons: They detail his four and a half year career in the army through firsthand accounts of the various campaigns and his numerous duties, and they chronicle his interactions with captured Confederate soldiers, his encounters with pro-Southern and pro-Northern civilians in areas occupied by the Union Army, his experiences with freed slaves and numerous other daily events in the war. Notable among the letters is his record of the early Civil War in Missouri, the Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle of Tupelo and the Battle of Nashville.
Author: Mary Nell Farmer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499060068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A young doe nudges her small fawn toward tall reeds that line the creek banks. She has been feeding on sweet clovers thru the early morning hours. Soon, she and other night creatures will return to the woods. There, they will remain until darkness returns once more.
Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1429915323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Following The Haunted Air, New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve. In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. They've been on the outs, but this is his dad, so he heads south. In the hospital he meets Anya, one of his father's neighbors. She's a weird old duck who seems to know an awful lot about his father, and even a lot about Jack. Jack's arrival does not go unnoticed. A young woman named Semelee, who has strange talents and lives in an isolated area of the Everglades with a group of misshapen men, feels his presence. She senses that he's "special," like her. Anya takes Jack back to Dad's senior community, Gateways South, which borders on the Everglades. Florida is going through an unusual drought. There's a ban on watering; everything is brown and wilting, but Anya's lawn is a deep green. Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents-killed by birds, spiders, and snakes during the past year? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades . . . lights from another place, another reality. If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, secrets he must uncover. Secrets . . . Jack has plenty of his own, and along the way he learns that even his father has secrets. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Jason L. Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited nominations from more than 300 magazines, literary journals, and small presses and narrowed the selection to 19 authors. The stories, written by Midwestern writers or focusing on the Midwest, demonstrate that the quality of fiction from and about the heart of the country rivals that of any other region. Guest editor John McNally introduces the anthology, which features short fiction by Charles Baxter, Dan Chaon, Christopher Mohar, Rebecca Makkai, Lee Martin, and others.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this material has not been widely available since the 1950s. Lafcadio Hearn's America collects Hearn's stories of vagabonds, river people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan, and these editorials reflect on the problems and possibilities of American life as the country entered its greatest century. Hearn's work, which reflects an America that is less "melting pot" than a varied, spicy, and often exotic gumbo, provide essential background for the study of America's first steps away from its agrarian beginnings.
