Author: Ralph Owen MOODY
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Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Author: Ralph Moody
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Mary Emma & Company is a family affair: Mother, 13-year-old Ralph who is the man of the family, and his two brothers and two sisters. Forced by their father's death to leave the home ranch in Colorado, the penniless Moodys move across the continent to Massachusetts to begin a new life. This the humorous, heartwarming account of their private war for independence, a war against poverty and sometimes against well-meaning relatives and friends who occasionally intrude on the family unity. It chronicles the daily defeats and victories in the long struggle to keep the family together in its own home. Ralph, busy with school and his afternoon job at the grocery store, finds a house Mary Emma & Company can afford. Then comes the task of cleaning, painting, and repairing, and desperate midnight battles with the tired old furnace. Much help, and a little hindrance, from neighbors and kin add to the fun and suspense. Mary Emma builds a business for herself; Ralph finds a new source of income and backbreaking labor through a fire and a flood tide; and little by little, with everyone helping, the battle is won. Mary Emma & Company is the true story of a family that stayed together and lived happily despite tremendous obstacles. Ralph Moody brings humor, pathos, and insight to this delightful account of his growing up. Illustrated by Tran Mawicke

Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family?s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1052

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Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)

Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1614

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Author: John Stansfield
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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The diverse peoples, landscapes, and histories of Western North America come alive with these autobiographical excerpts, author profiles, and activities. Focusing on the childhood and young adult experience of 10 of the West's most intriguing writers, each chapter presents engrossing personal narrative, biographical sketches, a resource bibliography, and numerous learning activities. A bonus section features 20 other Western writers for further exploration.

Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.