Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this fourth installment of a series about a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner is finally adjusting to his new life at Hendricks School as Lee Grant. While the Grants belong to the highest class of society called the Barons, Luke avoids snobbish affectations and befriends his classmates, who are also illegal thirds. When the real Lee Grant's younger brother arrives at the school, along with his fierce body guard, Luke worries that Smits will expose him to the government. However, Smits has come to enlist Luke's help in discovering how his older brother really died, suspecting that he was murdered. The intrigue and danger grow more acute when both boys are called "home" and Luke discovers that the Grants have plans for him that could turn out to be fatal.
Among the Barons
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this fourth installment of a series about a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner is finally adjusting to his new life at Hendricks School as Lee Grant. While the Grants belong to the highest class of society called the Barons, Luke avoids snobbish affectations and befriends his classmates, who are also illegal thirds. When the real Lee Grant's younger brother arrives at the school, along with his fierce body guard, Luke worries that Smits will expose him to the government. However, Smits has come to enlist Luke's help in discovering how his older brother really died, suspecting that he was murdered. The intrigue and danger grow more acute when both boys are called "home" and Luke discovers that the Grants have plans for him that could turn out to be fatal.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this fourth installment of a series about a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner is finally adjusting to his new life at Hendricks School as Lee Grant. While the Grants belong to the highest class of society called the Barons, Luke avoids snobbish affectations and befriends his classmates, who are also illegal thirds. When the real Lee Grant's younger brother arrives at the school, along with his fierce body guard, Luke worries that Smits will expose him to the government. However, Smits has come to enlist Luke's help in discovering how his older brother really died, suspecting that he was murdered. The intrigue and danger grow more acute when both boys are called "home" and Luke discovers that the Grants have plans for him that could turn out to be fatal.
Willie's Boys
Author: John Klima
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470485221
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball's endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder who hit 660 career homeruns, collected 3,283 hits, knocked in 1,903 runs, won 12 Gold Glove Awards and appeared in 24 All-Star games. But before Mays was the "Say Hey Kid", he was just a boy. Willie's Boys is the story of his remarkable 1948 rookie season with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, who took a risk on a raw but gifted 16-year-old and gave him the experience, confidence, and connections to escape Birmingham's segregation, navigate baseball's institutional racism, and sign with the New York Giants. Willie's Boys offers a character-rich narrative of the apprenticeship Mays had at the hands of a diverse group of savvy veterans who taught him the ways of the game and the world. Sheds new light on the virtually unknown beginnings of a baseball great, not available in other books Captures the first incredible steps of a baseball superstar in his first season with the Negro League's Birmingham Black Barons Introduces the veteran group of Negro League players, including Piper Davis, who gave Mays an incredible apprenticeship season Illuminates the Negro League's last days, drawing on in-depth research and interviews with remaining players Explores the heated rivalry between Mays's Black Barons and Buck O'Neil's Kansas City Monarchs , culminating in the last Negro League World Series Breaks new historical ground on what led the New York Giants to acquire Mays, and why he didn't sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, or Boston Red Sox Packed with stories and insights, Willie's Boys takes you inside an important part of baseball history and the development of one of the all-time greats ever to play the game.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470485221
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball's endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder who hit 660 career homeruns, collected 3,283 hits, knocked in 1,903 runs, won 12 Gold Glove Awards and appeared in 24 All-Star games. But before Mays was the "Say Hey Kid", he was just a boy. Willie's Boys is the story of his remarkable 1948 rookie season with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, who took a risk on a raw but gifted 16-year-old and gave him the experience, confidence, and connections to escape Birmingham's segregation, navigate baseball's institutional racism, and sign with the New York Giants. Willie's Boys offers a character-rich narrative of the apprenticeship Mays had at the hands of a diverse group of savvy veterans who taught him the ways of the game and the world. Sheds new light on the virtually unknown beginnings of a baseball great, not available in other books Captures the first incredible steps of a baseball superstar in his first season with the Negro League's Birmingham Black Barons Introduces the veteran group of Negro League players, including Piper Davis, who gave Mays an incredible apprenticeship season Illuminates the Negro League's last days, drawing on in-depth research and interviews with remaining players Explores the heated rivalry between Mays's Black Barons and Buck O'Neil's Kansas City Monarchs , culminating in the last Negro League World Series Breaks new historical ground on what led the New York Giants to acquire Mays, and why he didn't sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, or Boston Red Sox Packed with stories and insights, Willie's Boys takes you inside an important part of baseball history and the development of one of the all-time greats ever to play the game.
The House of Commons
Author: R. G. Thorne
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780436521010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 3610
Book Description
The House of Commons volumes, part of the History of Parliament series, are a major academic project describing the House's members, constituencies and activities covering the period 1386-1832. Consists of biographies of every person who sat as a member of the House during the period concerned; descriptions of each election during the period in each constituency; and an introductory survey, pulling together and analysing the information given in the biographies and constituency histories.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780436521010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 3610
Book Description
The House of Commons volumes, part of the History of Parliament series, are a major academic project describing the House's members, constituencies and activities covering the period 1386-1832. Consists of biographies of every person who sat as a member of the House during the period concerned; descriptions of each election during the period in each constituency; and an introductory survey, pulling together and analysing the information given in the biographies and constituency histories.
Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage
Author:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907
Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 3144
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 3144
Book Description
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Author: Bernard Burke
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference
Author: Samuel Maunder
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Etymological Compendium
Author: William Pulleyn
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The New State of England, Under Our Present Monarch K. William III ... The Third Edition, with Great Improvements
Author: Guy Miège
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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