Boy About Town

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780099558552

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Boy about Town by Tony Fletcher Pdf

The author of highly acclaimed Keith Moon and Smiths biographies now tells his own story of a life in love with music, pre- and post-punk London, via a Top 50 countdown I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock star. But while all around, voices were starting to break, acne beginning to appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby flesh and innate scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle to my name. I was the runt of the class and rarely allowed to forget it. I had no father at home to help me out, and could hardly talk to my mum. So I took solace in The Jam. As a boy, Tony Fletcher frequently felt out of place, yet somehow he secured a ringside seat for one of the most creative periods in British cultural history. This is the story of his formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of London, told via a Top 50 countdown: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects that became national success stories; the style culture of punks, mods, and skinheads and the tribal violence that enveloped them; life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household; weekends on the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and the teenage boy's unending obsession with losing his virginity. Featuring a vibrant cast of supporting characters from school friends to rock stars, and built up from notebooks, diaries, interviews, letters, and issues of his now legendary fanzine Jamming!, this is an evocative, bittersweet, amusing, and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.

Author : Lat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : UOM:39015014965043

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Town Boy by Lat Pdf

As Mat progresses through his teens, he explores the bustling city, develops friendships, nurtures a growing interest in art and music, and goes on a date with "the hottest girl in Ipoh."

Author : Dorothy Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Young adult fiction
ISBN : 0671533010

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New Boy in Town by Dorothy Francis Pdf

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752321098

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A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells

Author : Jan Michael
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547223100

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City Boy by Jan Michael Pdf

Set in contemporary Malawi, this compelling and thought-provoking novel follows the progress of a young orphaned boy from grief and loss to a new sense of himself, his family, and of home.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : New York Harper 1890.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Amusements
ISBN : UOM:39015019102105

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A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells Pdf

Describes the typical adventures of a mid-nineteenth-century boy from his third to eleventh years.

Author : Robert McCammon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453231562

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Boy's Life by Robert McCammon Pdf

An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He’s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon’s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the stranger’s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can’t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he’ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” Boy’s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today’s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788075838339

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A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated Edition) by William Dean Howells Pdf

In this series, William Dean Howells delightfully describes the early years of his life, in the "Boy's Town” of Ohio, the state where he was born and raised. These stories remain as a vivid autobiographical records and colorful images of a life in the mid-nineteenth century American town. Extract: "If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else.” William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504021982

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Boom Town Boy by Lois Lenski Pdf

A boy and his grandpa hope to strike oil in drought-ridden Oklahoma It’s hot in Oklahoma. There’s no wind, the wells are dry, and the ground is dead. Orvie’s family is doing everything they can to keep their farm going. If they miss a payment on the mortgage, the bank will take their home away, and they’ll have nowhere else to go. Farming is tough, honest work, and it’s no way to get rich. For years, Orvie’s grandfather has sworn that there’s oil under their land, and as soon as it starts bubbling up, they’ll have more money than they know what to do with. But when the oil boom sweeps across Oklahoma, Orvie will find there are some problems that money can’t solve. This rich portrait of life during the Oklahoma oil boom provides a lovingly detailed look at a forgotten time in history.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788026848943

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THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER: A Boy's Town Story (Illustrated) by William Dean Howells Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER: A Boy's Town Story (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Flight of Pony Baker is a novel for children which tells the story of a young boy named Pony Baker who, throughout the book, attempts to run away from his home where he lives with his mother, father, and five sisters. The setting of the story is "fifty years ago" in the Boy's Town of Ohio, the state where Howells was born and raised. Pony lives in the Boy's Town with his mother, father, and five sisters, whom his mother always wants him to play with. Pony's mother is very overprotective of Pony, which makes her a bad mother when it comes to having fun. Pony's father has done some things that have given Pony the right to run away as well. An older boy named Jim Leonard suggests that Pony go with the Indians and that the Indians would like him and then adopt him into their tribe. Extract: "If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else." William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright.

Author : Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062686220

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The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock Pdf

A Newbery Honor Book * Booklist Editors’ Choice * BookPage Best Books * Chicago Public Library Best Fiction * Horn Book Fanfare * Kirkus Reviews Best Books * Publishers Weekly Best Books * Wall Street Journal Best of the Year * An ALA Notable Book A young outcast is swept up into a thrilling and perilous medieval treasure hunt in this award-winning literary page-turner by acclaimed bestselling author Catherine Gilbert Murdock. The Book of Boy was awarded a Newbery Honor. “A treat from start to finish.”—Wall Street Journal Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked by others in his town—until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy’s climbing and jumping abilities, Secondus engages Boy as his servant, pulling him into an action-packed and suspenseful expedition across Europe to gather seven precious relics of Saint Peter. Boy quickly realizes this journey is not an innocent one. They are stealing the relics and accumulating dangerous enemies in the process. But Boy is determined to see this pilgrimage through until the end—for what if St. Peter has the power to make him the same as the other boys? This epic and engrossing quest story by Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock is for fans of Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale and Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and for readers of all ages. Features a map and black-and-white art by Ian Schoenherr throughout.

Author : Elana K. Arnold
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062445841

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A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold Pdf

The first book in a funny, heartfelt, and irresistible young middle grade series starring an unforgettable young boy on the autism spectrum. For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises—some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat’s mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he’s got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet. "This sweet and thoughtful novel chronicles Bat’s experiences and challenges at school with friends and teachers and at home with his sister and divorced parents. Approachable for younger or reluctant readers while still delivering a powerful and thoughtful story" (from the review by Brightly, which named A Boy Called Bat a best book of the year). Elana K. Arnold's Bat trilogy is a proven winner in the home and classroom—kids love these short illustrated young middle grade books. The trilogy is A Boy Called Bat, Bat and the Waiting Game, and Bat and the End of Everything.

Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Hachette Children's Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1444005278

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Terror Town by Marcus Sedgwick Pdf

In the fifth laugh-out-loud adventure from BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-shortlisted Marcus Sedgwick and Pete Williamson, Elf Girl and Raven Boy head to Terror Town to save the world from the Goblin King.

Author : Hugh MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
ISBN : 1897009739

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Trapper Boy by Hugh MacDonald Pdf

Set in a 1920s coal-mining town, Trapper Boy is the story of 13-year-old JW Donaldson, a good student with a bright future. As school ended for the year in 1926, JW was looking forward to summer. Sure, he would have chores – feeding the horse and milking the goat, tending the garden, that kind of thing – but he would also have lots of time for fishing, building his cabin and reading. Lots of reading.But there is something worrying his parents. His father works in the mine, and there is a lot of talk around town about the mines. JW doesn’t know the details – Adults had a lot to worry about, and he was in no hurry to become one.Slowly, JW’s parents reveal the truth: his father’s hours at the mine have been reduced and they face difficult decisions to try to make ends meet. One such decision will have a previously unimagined impact on the young man’s life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:30000111757781

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The Literary News by Anonim Pdf