Author : Ken Mink
Publisher : Ken Mink
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The incredible story of a man who was unfairly kicked out of college in 1956 and fulfills a dream by returning to college basketball at age 73, setting several world records in the process.
Author : Ken Mink
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Ken Mink
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781461000884
This is the story of a young Eastern Kentucky boy who achieved his dream of becoming a college basketball player, only to see his dream unfairly snatched away from him. But 53 years later he managed to revive his dream and return to the college basketball court at age 73, becoming the oldest college basketball player in history. This book tells the incredible route he followed – including several medical setbacks that threatened to squash his dream – and the impact his feat had on millions of people
Author : Ken Mink
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2011-09-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781466234543
This is the story of the characters and circumstances surrounding the wildest college football game ever played: Georgia Tech's 222-0 victory over little Cumberland University on Oct. 7, 1916, in Atlanta. Cumberland dropped football after a disastrous 1915 season in which it was outscored by an aggregate 276-0 in five games. But Cumberland beat the Georgia Tech baseball team 22-0 by illegally using a half dozen professional players. Coach John Heisman, who coached the Tech baseball and football teams, discovered that Cumberland had not formally cancelled its contract to play Tech in football in 1916. Heisman, looking for revenge, insisted the game be played or Cumberland would have to pay Tech a $3,000 forfeit fee (a huge sum at the time). Cumberland wanted to avoid the costly forfeiture fee so it told the school's young sports team's managers, George Allen, to somehow come up with a team to play Tech. Allen's adventures in putting together a bunch of misfits and finding a coach result in some hilarious moments. The game itself also included numerous humorous situations.
Author : Greg Neri
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African American boys
ISBN :
Three moves is all it takes to challenge the outcome of the game... In Marcus' world, battles are fought every day - on the street, at home and in school. Angered by his sister's death, his father's absence, and pushed to the brink by a bullying classmate, Marcus fights back with his fists. One punch from expulsion, Marcus encounters CM, an unlikely chess master who challenges him to fight his battles on the chess board. But Marcus has some hard lessons to learn before he can accept CM's help to regain control of his life.
Author : Jorge Argueta
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780892391813
Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador,reate a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind theirpartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.
Author : Ken Mochizuki
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : 9780780776388
A Japanese American boy learns about heroism from his father and uncle, who served in the U.S. Army.
Author : Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 9781600603341
Amazing, your face. Amazing. Whatever we feel-whether happy or sad, excited or wishful, proud or lonely-our faces mirror our emotions. In this contemporary yet timeless collection, sixteen evocative poems are brought to life in diverse and detailed faces that reveal the universal feelings we all share. Girls and boys, women and men invite us to experience their world, understand their lives, and find the connections that bring us together. Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers these insightful works from an impressive array of authors, including Joseph Bruchac, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Nikki Grimes, Pat Mora, Carole Boston Weatherford, Janet S. Wong, Jane Yolen, and more. Glowing illustrations created by Chris Soentpiet infuse the verses with atmosphere and exquisite settings. Readers of all ages will want to feast their eyes on these captivating poems and pictures again and again.
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1861
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9781600609008
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
