Children Of The Benares

Author : Deborah Heiligman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250187550

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Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman Pdf

From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Amanda West Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0889955077

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September 17 by Amanda West Lewis Pdf

A fictionalized account of the sinking of the luxury liner the City of Benares, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War II as it secretly transported ninety British children to Canada.

Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0586208232

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Children of the Benares by Ralph Barker Pdf

Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049897849

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Children of the Benares by Ralph Barker Pdf

Author : Susan Hood
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481468848

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Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood Pdf

“This page-turning true-life adventure is filled with rich and riveting details and a timeless understanding of the things that matter most.”—Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus “Brilliantly told in verse, readers will love Ken Sparks.” —Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor winner “Lyrical, terrifying, and even at times funny. A richly detailed account of a little-known event in World War II.” —Kirkus Reviews “Middle grade Titanic fans, here’s your next read.” —BCCB “An edge-of-your seat survival tale.” —School Library Journal (starred review) A Junior Library Guild Selection The 2019 Golden Kite Middle Grade Fiction Award Winner A 2019 ALSC Notable Children’s Book The 2019–2020 Lectio Book Award Winner The 2020–2021 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award List The 2020 Oklahoma Library Association’s Children’s Sequoyah Book Award Winner The Connecticut Book Award Winner In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II. With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he’s one of the lucky ones—one of ninety boys and girls to ship out aboard the SS City of Benares to safety in Canada. Life aboard the luxury ship is grand—nine-course meals, new friends, and a life far from the bombs, rations, and his stepmum’s glare. And after five days at sea, the ship’s officers announce that they’re out of danger. They’re wrong. Late that night, an explosion hurls Ken from his bunk. They’ve been hit. Torpedoed! The Benares is sinking fast. Terrified, Ken scrambles aboard Lifeboat 12 with five other boys. Will they get away? Will they survive? Award-winning author Susan Hood brings this little-known World War II story to life in a riveting novel of courage, hope, and compassion. Based on true events and real people, Lifeboat 12 is about believing in one another, knowing that only by banding together will we have any chance to survive.

Author : Jenny Huberman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813566504

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Ambivalent Encounters by Jenny Huberman Pdf

Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful. Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction. It examines the role of gender in mediating experiences of social change—girls are praised by locals for participating constructively in the informal tourist economy while boys are accused of deviant behavior. Huberman is interested equally in the children’s and adults’ perspectives; her own experiences as a western visitor and researcher provide an intriguing entry into her interpretations.

Author : Amanda Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1552443264

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September 17 by Amanda Lewis Pdf

Presents a fictionalized account of the sinking of the City of Benares, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War II as it secretly transported ninety British children to Canada.

Author : Atul Kochhar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781472917409

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Benares by Atul Kochhar Pdf

At Benares the superior service and setting are the height of luxury, but it is the sublime food that truly sets the restaurant apart. Atul Kochhar's unique, world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book of recipes from his Michelin-starred kitchen. 80 signature dishes reflect the excellent food ethos that Atul has created using the best of British produce with his modern Indian style. Every aromatic desire is explored on a journey to the heart of Benares, revealing exotic fusions and dazzling flavours. Across starters, mains, desserts, sides and accompaniments, each heavenly taste is a tribute to this master's work. This is not the same Atul as seen on TV – it's the Atul who has conquered the Michelin world with his expert gastronomy. Benares is the epicurean artefact the fine-dining room deserves. This is a benchmark work: a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly Michelin spirit in your home. With excellent photography by Mike Cooper.

Author : Tom Nagorski
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472124050

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Miracles on the Water by Tom Nagorski Pdf

On September 17, 1940, the SS City of Benares was sailing in the North Atlantic with more than four hundred people on board, including ninety children on their way to Canada to escape the blitz. They were considered lucky - leaving WWII behind and heading for peace, quiet and security...At a little after ten o'clock that night, a German submarine torpedoed the Benares. The ship sank in half an hour, in a gale that sent several of her lifeboats pitching to the cold sea. The passengers were more than six hundred miles from land, three hundred miles from the nearest rescue vessel; none of them had a reasonable hope of survival. But in the wake of tragedy and horror, the City of Benares would also prove herself a mother of miracles. Exceptional feats of courage and endurance took shape in the hours and days that followed the attack, the children in particular exhibiting what one naval officer later called 'courage beyond praise'. Based on firsthand accounts from the child survivors and other passengers, including the author's great-uncle, "Miracles on the Water" is a vivid retelling of one of the greatest hidden wartime dramas.

Author : Aatish Taseer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374715755

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The Twice-Born by Aatish Taseer Pdf

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition. Known as the twice-born—first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation—the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to renounce India—and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded by cries of “Victory to Mother India!” and an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence. From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new.

Author : Lisa Shearin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101208571

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Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Shearin Pdf

Raine Benares is a Sorceress Seeker of average ability until she comes into possession of an amulet that amplifies her powers-and her enemies.

Author : Diana L. Eck
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307832955

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Banaras by Diana L. Eck Pdf

The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study, Diana Eck shows how the city over the centuries has become a lens through which the Hindu vision of the world is precisely focused. She reveals the spiritual and historical resonance of this holy place where great sages such as the Buddha and Shankara were taught, where ashrams, palaces, and universities were built, where God has been imagined and imagined in a thousand ways. She describes the rites of its temples, the busy life of its riverfront, and the exuberance of its festivals. She tells how people travel from all over India to Banāras for the privilege of dying a good death here, for they believe that on the banks of the River Ganges where “the atmosphere of devotion is improbable in its strength,” it is possible to be released from the earthly round forever. In her account of the sacred history, geography, and art of the city, its elaborate and thriving rituals, its myths and literature, and its importance to pilgrims and seekers, Diana Eck uses her wealth of scholarship to make the Hindu tradition come powerfully alive so that we come to understand the meaning of this sacred city to the millions of believers who have been coming here for over 2,500 years.

Author : James Heneghan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Friendship Juvenile fiction
ISBN : 0374384533

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Wish Me Luck by James Heneghan Pdf

While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.

Author : Julie Summers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847377340

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When the Children Came Home by Julie Summers Pdf

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of children evacuated during WWII and the families they left behind On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper bgan to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children, pregnant women and schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were evacuated privately; the largest mass evacuation of children in British history. Some children went abroad, others were sent to institutions, but the majority were billeted with foster families. Some were away for weeks or months, others for years. Homecoming was not always easy and a few described it as more difficult than going away in the first place. In When the Children Came Home Julie Summers tells us what happened when these children returned to their families. She looks at the different waves of British evacuation during WWII and explores how they coped both in the immediate aftermath of the war, and in later life. For some it was a wonderful experience that enriched their whole lives, for others it cast a long shadow, for a few it changed things for ever. Using interviews, written accounts and memoirs, When the Children Came Homeweaves together a collection of personal stories to create a warm and compelling portrait of wartime Britain from the children's perspective.

Author : Edwin Greaves
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)
ISBN : 8120616944

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Kashi the City Illustrious Or Benares by Edwin Greaves Pdf

Useful For Visitors To Benares And Those Who Reside Those For Short Duration.