Author :
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592650583
Evoking memories of childhood and nostalgia, family traditions, village life, green fields and bubbling streams, home is forever associated with the individual. This collection of essays provides an outstanding overview to the motif of home in Chinese literature and culture.
Author : Hope Lim
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536226785
When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Author : Darrell Burrow
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780615851068
The Hometown Sluggers tells the story of a young boy, Riley, who loves baseball so much that he assembles his own team from everyday kids. Each friend that Riley recruits is unique in his or her own way. Some are drummers. Some are ballerinas. Some have lots of friends, and others don't have any friends at all. But Riley finds a way to bring them all together where they can belong as the Sluggers. Soon the Sluggers are taking on the Skunks for their first big game; one that the town may be talking about for years to come.
Author : Keanon Lowe
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250807646
The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon’s journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.
Author : Ken Tate
Publisher : Annie's
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781882138432
Remember when hometowns were a great place to be a kid? Take a stroll down those sidewalks again, and relive the warm memories with this collection of essays and photographs from the pages of Good old days magazine.
Author : Russell Griesmer
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category :
ISBN : 147955880X
Experience small-town life and American history with this nearly wordless picture book.
Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307826473
In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.
Author : Erin Napier
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316463833
From the nationally beloved co-host of the #1 hit show Home Town comes the quintessential celebration of home. Imagine a house's early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, its paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The house dreams of a family who will love it again...and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls. In this modern classic, Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s warm and comforting paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.
Author : Rhett McLaughlin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984822136
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Stranger Things meets the South. Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful—I loved it!”—Felicia Day From the authors of Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning . . . It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a history of putting unruly youths back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the suspicious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade. At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told: that the students’ strange demises were all just tragic accidents, the unfortunate consequence of succumbing to vices like Marlboro Lights and Nirvana. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry—and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment—Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents. Eager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school graduate Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest imaginations—one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core. Praise for The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek “The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek is like your best friend from high school—kind of weird and a little twisted, but no matter how much trouble they caused, they always made you laugh. You don’t have to be a GMM fan to realize . . . The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, Will It Awesome Book? F@*# yeah!”—Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy “Most people don’t read books, let alone write them. That puts Rhett and Link in the top 1% of smart people in the world. Read this book.”—Rachel Bloom, co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend “It’s scary, it’s fun, and it’s one hell of a carnival ride.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Colleen Rowan Kosinski
Publisher : Two Lions
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781542007207
