Author : William Durbin
Publisher : 케이론교육
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780439445641
A young man tells the story of climbing into the cage and being lowered back down into the mine and how hard life was.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : 케이론교육
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780439445641
A young man tells the story of climbing into the cage and being lowered back down into the mine and how hard life was.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781517910464
In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 044041184X
In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school to become a voyageur for the North West Company, so his family can survive the winter. It's hard for Pierre as the youngest in the brigade. From the treacherous waters and cruel teasing to his aching and bloodied hands, Pierre is miserable. Still he has no choice but to endure the trip to Grand Portage and back.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439153065
Desperate to survive during the Dust Bowl, C. J. Jackson and his family leave the panhandle of Oklahoma and head west to California, where they hope to make a better life for themselves.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452931259
For fifteen-year-old Matti Ojala and his family, Finnish immigrants in Minnesota in 1900, starting a new life in America is both a hardship and an opportunity. After a tragic mining accident kills their beloved uncle, the family turns away from the iron mines to pursue the dream of owning a homestead in the wilderness. This means constant hard work and new challenges for the entire family. But will it also allow Matti, the in-between child, the chance to escape from his older brother’s shadow and gain the approval of his father, which he so desperately desires?
Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545628229
A companion to Newbery Honor winning author Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty. This is the dramatic, heart-wrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Meet Maxwell Kane, the brooding giant-of-a-boy who escaped from his basement hiding place and faced the real world in FREAK THE MIGHTY.Still grieving over the loss of his best friend, Kevin, Max finds himself defending a young, solitary girl cruelly nicknamed "Worm" because she loves to read so much.When Max gets blamed for a horrific crime, he and Worm are forced to run for their lives. They flee across America -- hunted by the police, and pursued by the mysterious man known as the Undertaker. The only way they can survive is to confront Worm's darkest and most revealing secret. And that means facing something more frightening than death itself.
Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780439445764
A fictionalized account of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France, told through the journal entries of a seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia.
Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780545398886
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439188944
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.
