Author : Edmund White
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A young man struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality while coming of age in the 1950s.
Author : William Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Amusements
ISBN :
Author : Clifford R. Shaw
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022607496X
The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging), Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or "own story" as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.
Author : Eli Glasman
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780987507013
When non-religious rebel Josh turns up at school, Yossi is asked to look after him, and while Yossi educates Josh on the ancient traditions of their race, Josh does some educating of his own. Through their relationship, Yossi learns to see the laws of Judaism in a very new light. But when he and Josh are caught kissing in the bathhouse, Yossi's life takes on a dramatic new turn, and he can ignore his new reality no longer. The Boy's Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew is full of heart and human blundering, as a family gradually learns to accept the parameters of its faith, and how to work around them.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN :
Author : John George Wood
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316262250
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father's actions. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.
Author : Frank Broughton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Boy's Own (Magazine)
ISBN : 9780956189622
This is a complete facsimile reprint of 'Boy's Own' magazine. The magazine covered music, politcs and football and is a chronicle of the acid house scene.
Author : Genevieve Hudson
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631496301
A “soul-stirring debut,” Boys of Alabama tells the “bewitching” (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Max’s first year in America. “Daring, unusual . . . and startlingly fresh” (Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio), Boys of Alabama announced Genevieve Hudson’s place in the canon of the southern gothic alongside Donna Tartt and Harper Lee. Newly arrived in Alabama, Max falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. Although his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives after being taken in by the football team. But when he meets fishnet-wearing Pan in physics class, they embark on a quixotic, consuming relationship. Writing in “prose that is always imaginative and sensual” (Sarah Neilson, Believer), Hudson offers a complex portrait of masculinity, religion, immigration, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity.
Author : Jim George
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736955186
It’s never too early to give young boys a resource that will help them learn the skills for making right choices in life. A Boy’s Guide to Making Really Good Choices is designed to help boys ages 8-12 learn how to think through their options, realize the possible consequences, and develop good decision-making skills. In this book, Jim George uses helpful stories and illustrations to walk boys through the kinds of choices they are likely to face each day—choices to... listen to their parents do their best in school, sports, and activities select friends with care be kind to siblings and others help out at home and use good manners Through the use of real-life scenarios, Jim George equips boys to build good character—the kind that will stay with them for life and honor God’s standards.
