I Am Scout

Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466867529

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I Am Scout by Charles J. Shields Pdf

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing to give interviews or talk about the novel that made her a household name. Lee's life is as rich as her fiction, from her girlhood as a rebellious tomboy to her days at the University of Alabama and early years as a struggling writer in New York City. Charles J. Shields is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, which he has adapted here for younger readers.What emerges in this riveting portrait is the story of an unconventional, high-spirited woman who drew on her love of writing and her Southern home to create a book that continues to speak to new generations of readers. Anyone who has enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird will appreciate this glimpse into the life of its fascinating author. I Am Scout is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Susan Verde
Publisher : Abrams Appleseed
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419742396

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I Am One by Susan Verde Pdf

Discover the power of activism in this board book companion to New York Times bestsellers I Am Human and I Am Love One seed to start a garden, one note to start a melody, one brick to start breaking down walls: Every movement and moment of change starts with purpose, with intention, with one. With me. With you. From the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind I Am Yoga, I Am Peace, I Am Human, and I Am Love comes a powerful call to action, encouraging each reader to raise their voice, extend a hand, and take that one first step to start something beautiful and move toward a better world.

Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062368683

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Pdf

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429900911

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Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields Pdf

The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird—the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters—Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout—and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. At the center of Shields's lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights as well: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City. Drawing on six hundred interviews and much new information, Mockingbird is the first book ever written about Harper Lee. Highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart, this is an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.

Author : Mary McDonagh Murphy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062011718

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Scout, Atticus, & Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy Pdf

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, filmmaker Mary Murphy has interviewed prominent figures—including Oprah, Anna Quindlen, and Tom Brokaw—on how the book has impacted their lives. These interviews are compiled in Scout, Atticus, and Boo, the perfect companion to one of the most important American books of the 20th Century. Scout, Atticus, and Boo will also feature a foreword from acclaimed writer Wally Lamb.

Author : Urban Scout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621069729

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Rewild Or Die by Urban Scout Pdf

Rewild or Die is a collection of essays written by Urban Scout exploring the philosophy of the emerging rewilding renaissance, in which civilized humans are thought to be "domesticated" through thousands of years of sedentary, agrarian life. This way of life is believed to be the root of all environmental destruction and social injustice. Rewilding is the process of un-doing this domestication, and restoring healthy, biologically diverse communities. Using thoughtful, humorously cynical and at times angry prose, Urban Scout explores how the ideology of civilization clashes with the wild and wild peoples, and how thinking, feeling and most importantly living wild is the only way to reach true sustainability.

Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062409874

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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." — New York Times A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—“Scout”—returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can only be guided by one’s own conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic.

Author : Marja Mills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698163836

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The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills Pdf

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has lived with her sister, Alice, for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a long conversation—and a great friendship. In 2004, with the Lees’ blessing, Mills moved into the house next door to the sisters. She spent the next eighteen months there, sharing coffee at McDonalds and trips to the Laundromat with Nelle, feeding the ducks and going out for catfish supper with the sisters, and exploring all over lower Alabama with the Lees’ inner circle of friends. Nelle shared her love of history, literature, and the Southern way of life with Mills, as well as her keen sense of how journalism should be practiced. As the sisters decided to let Mills tell their story, Nelle helped make sure she was getting the story—and the South—right. Alice, the keeper of the Lee family history, shared the stories of their family. The Mockingbird Next Door is the story of Mills’s friendship with the Lee sisters. It is a testament to the great intelligence, sharp wit, and tremendous storytelling power of these two women, especially that of Nelle. Mills was given a rare opportunity to know Nelle Harper Lee, to be part of the Lees’ life in Alabama, and to hear them reflect on their upbringing, their corner of the Deep South, how To Kill a Mockingbird affected their lives, and why Nelle Harper Lee chose to never write another novel.

Author : Ken Silverstein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781588363565

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The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein Pdf

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments—building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion—were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed. In The Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates in brilliant detail the months of David’s improbable nuclear quest. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. (Ironically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was his number one source of information.) Scavenging antiques stores and junkyards for old-fashioned smoke detectors and gas lanterns—both of which contain small amounts of radioactive material—and following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town’s forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. An outrageous account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris that sits comfortably on the shelf next to such offbeat science books as Driving Mr. Albert and stories of grand capers like Catch Me If You Can, The Radioactive Boy Scout is a real-life adventure with the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.

Author : Julie Nye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976776219

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Scout by Julie Nye Pdf

Author : Ellen Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1407106015

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Scout by Ellen Miles Pdf

Even after Charles and Lizzie Peterson finally have their own puppy, they still foster other dogs and help them find perfect homes. Scout is a gorgeous German shepherd puppy and there are two families are already lined up to adopt her. But when both families end up backing out at the last minute, the Petersons step in once again to save the day. Scout clearly has the skills to be a search-and-rescue dog, but can Charles and Lizzie find her a home that will help her reach her full potential?

Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547243948

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First Girl Scout by Ginger Wadsworth Pdf

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts in 2012, a lavishly illustrated account of the fascinating life of the woman who started it all

Author : Felicity Fenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1892061856

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User Not Found by Felicity Fenton Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. Lyric Essay. Prompted by a sequence of discouraging internet encounters, Felicity Fenton attempts to free herself from the tendrils of an online world we know, but struggle to look away from. She evaluates the endless distractions of being tethered to her device and all that comes with it: email, spam, texting, taking pictures, and social media (aka "the walls"). In lyrical prose that swerves into dream-like mirage, hilarious thoughts, social observations, and unwavering sadness, USER NOT FOUND is a powerful essay that is all too relatable.

Author : Barney Scout Mann
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781680513226

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Journeys North by Barney Scout Mann Pdf

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.

Author : David Snook
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787192430

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If I Was Not a Boy Scout by David Snook Pdf

An amusing account of how the author, as a twelve year old boy, took the decision to sever his ties with the local street gang and in his own words. "e;Join the bloody scouts"e;. A decision made by a child on the spur of the moment that was to change his life forever. Funny, sad, certainly provocative in places, but was it the right thing to do? The Author will leave it to you to make up your own mind.