The Story of Opal

The Story of Opal PDF Author: Opal Stanley Whiteley
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ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The Story of Opal

The Story of Opal PDF Author: Opal Stanley Whiteley
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The Diary of Opal Whiteley

The Diary of Opal Whiteley PDF Author: Opal Stanley Whiteley
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Only Opal

Only Opal PDF Author: Opal Whiteley
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 9780698115644
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Born around the turn of the century, Opal Whiteley spent her childhood on the American Western frontier. Through these excerpts from her diary, readers are given a taste of the struggle and despair as well as the faith and joy felt in each moment of her life. An IRA Teacher's Choice Book. 6/97.

The Flower of Stars

The Flower of Stars PDF Author: Opal Stanley Whiteley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Self-published book of poems by a young author whose childhood diary had caused a sensation three years earlier upon its publication in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in spring 1920, and subsequently as a book. Whiteley's childhood record of growing up in the woods in a logging town in Oregon was painstakingly pieced back together from its torn fragments and is still controversial as to its true origins. Shortly after publication, it was claimed that she wrote the diary as an adult, not a child, and it was branded a hoax. She died in a mental hospital in London in 1992 where she had been institutionalized since 1948.

The Te of Piglet

The Te of Piglet PDF Author: Benjamin Hoff
Publisher: Egmont Childrens Books
ISBN: 9781405204279
Category : Piglet (Fictitious character).
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Taoist philosophy explained using examples from A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10]

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10] PDF Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0670084514
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman PDF Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 030783025X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.

Jo's Girls

Jo's Girls PDF Author: Christian McEwen
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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From her classic novel LITTLE WOMEN, Louisa May Alcott's energetic and androgynous character Jo March has inspired generations of tomboys, but eventually Jo submitted to the role of wife and mother. Here an assortment of women writers push the tomboy narrative beyond the boundaries of children's literature to reveal the determined tomboy spirit and the variety of paths taken by real life tomboys as they navigate adolescence and adulthood.

The Tao of Pooh

The Tao of Pooh PDF Author: Benjamin Hoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780416195118
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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In My Blood

In My Blood PDF Author: John Sedgwick
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061745065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 619

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While working on his second novel, John Sedgwick spiraled into a depression so profound that it very nearly resulted in suicide. An author acclaimed for his intimate literary excursions into the rarified, moneyed enclave of Brahmin Boston, he decided to search for the roots of his malaise in the history of his own storied family—one of America's oldest and most notable. Following a bloodline that travels from Theodore Sedgwick, compatriot of George Washington and John Adams, to Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's tragic muse, John Sedgwick's very personal journey of self-discovery became something far greater: a spellbinding study of the evolution of an extraordinary American family.