The Pushcart War

Author : Jean Merrill
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590179369

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The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill Pdf

"The best book about politics ever written for children." —The Washington Post 50th Anniversary Edition, now in paperback DO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE PUSHCART WAR? THE REAL HISTORY? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim, defeated a mighty foe. Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn’t have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn’t stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the police, and they marched right up to the grilles of those giant trucks and dared them to drive down their streets. Today, thanks to the ingenuity of the pushcart peddlers, the streets belong to the people—and to the pushcarts. The Pushcart War was first published more than fifty years ago. It has inspired generations of children and been adapted for television, radio, and the stage around the world. It was included on School Library Journal’s list of One Hundred Books That Shaped the Twentieth Century, and its assertion that a committed group of men and women can prevail against a powerful force is as relevant in the twenty-first century as it was in 1964.

Author : Jean Merrill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618759255

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The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill Pdf

Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with help from his good friend Kate MacKinstrey. By the time he reaches the eighth grade, Rufus makes more than a gallon--he makes a million This fun, breezy story set in 1960s Cleveland, Ohio contains many real-life mathematical problems which the characters must solve to succeed in their budding business. Includes black-and-white illustrations by Jan Palmer. This edition includes an exclusive author interview and reader's guide with book summary and discussion questions.

Author : Ruth Stiles Gannett
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486492834

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My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett Pdf

A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780007390700

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The Rescuers (Collins Modern Classics) by Margery Sharp Pdf

Bianca and Bernard, agents for The Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice, rescue prisoners and outwit villains in this enchanting story, made world-famous by the Walt Disney film.

Author : Ayse Papatya Bucak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324002987

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The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories by Ayse Papatya Bucak Pdf

A debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize–winning author. In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.

Author : Richard Siken
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556594779

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War of the Foxes by Richard Siken Pdf

Best-selling poet and painter Richard Siken uses strong, bold strokes to reveal a world abstract, concrete, and exquisitely complex.

Author : Jean Merrill
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590178201

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The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill Pdf

50th Anniversary Edition Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? it’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim defeated a mighty foe. Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn’t have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn’t stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the police, and they marched right up to the grilles of those giant trucks and dared them to drive down their streets. Today, thanks to the ingenuity of the pushcart peddlers, the streets belong to the people—and to the pushcarts. The Pushcart War was first published fifty years ago. It has inspired generations of children and been adapted for television, radio, and the stage around the world. It was included on School Library Journal’s list of “One Hundred Books That Shaped the Twentieth Century,” and its assertion that a committed group of men and women can prevail against a powerful force is as relevant in the twenty-first century as it was in 1964.

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475905

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A Child's War by Mike Brown Pdf

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter. Children all over Britain were deeply affected by the war: many were separated from their parents by evacuation or bereavement; all had to 'make do and mend' with clothes and toys; and some even died while contributing to the war effort at home. In this moving and often amusing account, Mike Brown describes what life was like on the Home Front during the war from a child's point of view. His fully illustrated narrative includes details of evacuation, rationing, coping with gas masks and air raids, entertainment and the important - and often dangerous - roles of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. This photographic history pays tribute to the generation of girls and boys who grew up under the shadow of the Second World War.

Author : Attilio Petruccioli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UVA:X030356571

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After Amnesia by Attilio Petruccioli Pdf

The book is constituted in four chapters, each of which addresses a specific aspect of the the physical realities of the Islamic city. The first chapter introduces issues that pertain to the dialectic relationship between buildings, cities, and civilizations and highlights the typological processes involved. The second chapter involves a typological analysis of the Islamic houses which formed the structure of many cities including Fez, Mostar, Aleppo, and Algiers--among others. Chapter 3 addresses the physical aspects of the building tissue in the Islamic city and the dialectic relations between the building tissue and the larger contextual fabric. In chapter 4, the city is analytically described as an urban organism; it also involves methods of interpretation while at the same time concluding with the fact that Islamic cities have unique character, especially in terms of its spontaneity and intentionality.

Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481409131

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When the Tripods Came by John Christopher Pdf

Experience the beginning of the Tripods’ reign in this prequel to the classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. When it comes to alien invasions, bad things come in threes. Three landings: one in England, one in Russia, and one in the United States. Three long legs, crushing everything in their paths, with three metallic arms, snacking out to embrace—and then discard—their helpless victims. Three evil beings, called Tripods, which will change life on Earth forever.

Author : Jean Merrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073304515

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˜Theœ Pushcart War by Jean Merrill Pdf

Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021517968

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A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos Pdf

A collection of short stories by John Dos Passos, including both fiction and nonfiction pieces. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Kloss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937865789

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The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss Pdf

It's the skull-fucking you didn't know you needed. -Liberty Hardy, Book Riot THE CULT CLASSIC RETURNS WITH A NEW DEFINITIVE EDITION Robert Kloss's The Alligators of Abraham is a fever dream built from the fly strewn corpses of armies, the megalomania of generals, the madness of widows, the fires of mourning, the fury of the poor, the indifference of the wealthy, and the ravenous hissing of those alligators who have ever plagued the shores of our national nightmares. The Alligators of Abraham is a Civil War epic unlike any other. A novel as lyrical as it is precise in its depiction of the struggle to maintain dignity. -Adam Braver, author November 22, 1963 Robert Kloss's words gnaw into the collective dark underbelly unconsciousness of the 19th century which, in many ways, we've never entirely gotten over in America. -Rebecca Brown, author of American Romances

Author : L. Annette Binder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781526616746

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The Vanishing Sky by L. Annette Binder Pdf

"In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right. He is thin, almost ghostly, and behaving very strangely. Etta strives to protect him from the Nazi rule, even as her husband, Josef, becomes more nationalistic and impervious to Max's condition. Meanwhile, miles away, her younger son Georg has taken his fate into his own hands, deserting his young class of battle-bound soldiers to set off on a long and perilous journey home. The Vanishing Sky is a World War II novel as seen through a German lens, a story of the irreparable damage of war on the home front, and one family's participation-involuntary, unseen, or direct-in a dangerous regime. Drawing inspiration from her own father's time in the Hitler Youth, L. Annette Binder has crafted a spellbinding novel about the daring choices we make for country and for family"--

Author : Jean Merrill
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590178720

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The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars by Jean Merrill Pdf

What is your favorite thing to do in the whole world? Whatever it is, odds are that you don’t like doing it as much as the elephant in this book enjoys smashing small cars. He’ll smash any small car that drives down his road. He smashes yellow cars, he smashes blue cars, he smashes red cars, all the while singing a special car-smashing song. Then one day a man comes to town and opens a small-car store right on the elephant’s road. You can probably guess what the elephant does next, but the real fun starts when the man turns the tables on the elephant—and his plan is a smashing success. Jean Merrill’s story of gleeful destruction, revenge, and conciliation is accompanied by Ronni Solbert’s colorful crayon drawings. Rarely has property damage looked so adorable.