Freedom S Child

Author : Jax Miller
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804186810

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Freedom's Child by Jax Miller Pdf

Freedom Oliver has plenty of secrets. She lives in a small Oregon town and keeps mostly to herself. Her few friends and neighbors know she works at the local biker bar; they know she gets arrested for public drunkenness almost every night; they know she’s brash, funny, and fearless. What they don’t know is that Freedom Oliver is a fake name. They don’t know that she was arrested for killing her husband, a cop, twenty years ago. They don’t know she put her two kids up for adoption. They don’t know that she’s now in witness protection, regretting ever making a deal with the Feds, and missing her children with a heartache so strong it makes her ill. Then, she learns that her daughter has gone missing, possibly kidnapped. Determined to find out what happened, Freedom slips free of her handlers, gets on a motorcycle, and heads for Kentucky, where her daughter was raised. As she ventures out on her own, no longer protected by the government, her troubled past comes roaring back at her: her husband’s vengeful, sadistic family; her brief, terrifying stint in prison; and the family she chose to adopt her kids who are keeping dangerous secrets. Written with a ferocious wit and a breakneck pace, Freedom’s Child is a thrilling, emotional portrait of a woman who risks everything to make amends for a past that haunts her still.

Author : Ellen S. Levine
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698118706

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Freedom's Children by Ellen S. Levine Pdf

In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom. "Thrilling...Nothing short of wonderful."-The New York Times Awards: ( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ( A Booklist Editors' Choice

Author : Colin A. Palmer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781469611693

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Freedom's Children by Colin A. Palmer Pdf

Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

Author : Richardo Keens-Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1550373722

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Freedom Child of the Sea by Richardo Keens-Douglas Pdf

Tells the story of the Freedom Child, a symbol of hope and love, who was born from the pain and suffering of captured Africans on their way to become slaves in the Americas.

Author : Carrie Allen McCray
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140282521

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Freedom's Child by Carrie Allen McCray Pdf

Tells the life story of the author's mother, the illegitimate daughter of a Confederate general from Virginia and a former slave, who became a leader in the founding of the NAACP.

Author : Mary Niall Mitchell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814796337

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Raising Freedom's Child by Mary Niall Mitchell Pdf

This work examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. The author analyzes multiple views of the African American child to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition.

Author : Walter Polovchak,Kevin Klose
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001357716

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Freedom's Child by Walter Polovchak,Kevin Klose Pdf

Decision not to return to Ukraine with parents at the age of twelve.

Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Equality
ISBN : UOM:49015002217371

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I Am Freedom's Child by Bill Martin Pdf

We are all different and we all like each other.

Author : Marc Levy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007396078

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The Children of Freedom by Marc Levy Pdf

A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist

Author : Velma Maia Thomas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0609604813

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Freedom's Children by Velma Maia Thomas Pdf

This sequel to 1998's award-winning Lest We Forget chronicles the jubilation and despair of newly freed slaves turned loose, as Frederick Douglass put it, "to the wrath of our infuriated masters." Without land, money or education, former slaves had to fend for themselves in the hostile environment of a vanquished South. Covering the period from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to the start of the Great Migration, Freedom's Children tells the stories of courageous African-Americans who struggled to construct schools and establish businesses while trying to reunite families scattered by slavery. Even the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau could do little to provide real help. So they learned to make their own opportunities, often in other parts of the country. Extraordinary interactive elements bring the lives of these American heroes into chilling focus. Readers can examine the "Freedman's Third Reader" used to teach former slaves to read, open a change pouch and touch "script" money paid to sharecroppers for use in the company store, peruse an account book from the Freedman's Bank, and much more. Freedom's Children is an unforgettable reading -- and interactive -- experience.

Author : Allison Varnes
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524771492

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Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes Pdf

Celebrate the freedom to read with this timely, empowering middle-grade debut in the spirit of The View from Saturday or Frindle. When twelve-year-old June Harper's parents discover what they deem an inappropriate library book, they take strict parenting to a whole new level. And everything June loves about Dogwood Middle School unravels: librarian Ms. Bradshaw is suspended, an author appearance is canceled, the library is gutted, and all books on the premises must have administrative approval. But June can't give up books . . . and she realizes she doesn't have to when she spies a Little Free Library on her walk to school. As the rules become stricter at school and at home, June keeps turning the pages of the banned books that continue to appear in the little library. It's a delicious secret . . . and one she can't keep to herself. June starts a banned book library of her own in an abandoned locker at school. The risks grow alongside her library's popularity, and a movement begins at Dogwood Middle--a movement that, if exposed, could destroy her. But if it's powerful enough, maybe it can save Ms. Bradshaw and all that she represents: the freedom to read. Equal parts fun and empowering, this novel explores censorship, freedom of speech, and activism. For any kid who doesn't believe one person can effect change...and for all the kids who already know they can!

Author : Chandralekha Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788184759662

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Freedom's Child by Chandralekha Mehta Pdf

Freedom was then a far vision, and no one really expected to see a free India in his or her lifetime. The hundreds and thousands of men, women and teenagers, whose stamina and sacrifices led to our independence, were the real heroes of the Non cooperation movement. For people like them, Anand Bhawan was a symbol of the struggle.' Writing about her growing up years, author Chandralekha Mehta, Pandit Nehru's niece, gives us a peek into the momentous years of the freedom struggle. This was the age of Satyagraha, when the country was awakening to new realities, trying to shape her own destiny and inching her way to freedom, all brought about by the vision of one man Mahatma Gandhi. The author and her family, the Nehrus in Allahabad, were prominent participants in the extraordinary and historical events of the time.

Author : Helen Wilkinson,Geoff Mulgan
Publisher : Demos
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781898309277

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Freedom's Children by Helen Wilkinson,Geoff Mulgan Pdf

Author : Lauren Sandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781451626964

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One and Only by Lauren Sandler Pdf

The author discusses the pros and cons of being an only child.

Author : John A. Robertson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400821204

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Children of Choice by John A. Robertson Pdf

Cloning, genetic screening, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilization, Norplant, RU486--these are the technologies revolutionizing our reproductive landscape. Through the lens of procreative liberty--meaning both the freedom to decide whether or not to have children as well as the freedom to control one's reproductive capacity--John Robertson, a leading legal bioethicist, analyzes the ethical, legal, and social controversies surrounding each major technology and opens up a multitude of fascinating questions: Do frozen embryos have the right to be born? Should parents be allowed to select offspring traits? May a government force welfare recipients to take contraceptives? Robertson's arguments examine the broad range of consequences of each reproductive technology and offers a timely, multifaceted analysis of the competing interests at stake for patients, couples, doctors, policymakers, lawyers, and ethicists.