A Childhood
Title | A Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Crews |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2022-03-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0143135333 |
“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way. Interweaving his own memories including his bout with polio and a fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, with the tales of relatives and friends, he re-creates a childhood of tenderness and violence, comedy and tragedy.
Scenes from a Childhood
Title | Scenes from a Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Fosse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | FICTION |
ISBN | 9781910695531 |
A haunting collection from one of Norway's most celebrated writers.
Who Gets a Childhood?
Title | Who Gets a Childhood? PDF eBook |
Author | William S. Bush |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820337196 |
Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, the author tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth, while denying those protections to blacks, Latinos, and poor whites. On the forefront of both progressive and "get tough" reform campaigns, Texas has led national policy shifts in the treatment of delinquent youth to a surprising degree. Changes in the legal system have included the development of courts devoted exclusively to young offenders, the expanded legal application of psychological expertise, and the rise of the children's rights movement. At the same time, broader cultural ideas about adolescence have also changed. Yet the author demonstrates that as the notion of the teenager gained currency after World War II, white, middle-class teen criminals were increasingly depicted as suffering from curable emotional disorders even as the rate of incarceration rose sharply for black, Latino, and poor teens. He argues that despite the struggles of reformers, child advocates, parents, and youths themselves to make juvenile justice live up to its ideal of offering young people a second chance, the story of twentieth-century juvenile justice in large part boils down to the exclusion of poor and nonwhite youth from modern categories of childhood and adolescence.
A Child of Books
Title | A Child of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Jeffers |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763690775 |
A young reader introduces a boy to the many imaginative worlds that books bring to life.
Childhood's End
Title | Childhood's End PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
Publisher | RosettaBooks |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2012-11-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0795324979 |
In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems. Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems. “Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times
All Around Me
Title | All Around Me PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Hughes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2019-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781406390308 |
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A Child Through Time
Title | A Child Through Time PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Wilkinson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1465472495 |
An original look at history that profiles 30 children from different eras so that children of today can discover the lives of the cave people, Romans, Vikings, and beyond through the eyes of someone their own age. History books often focus on adults, but what was the past like for children? A Child Through Time is historically accurate and thoroughly researched, and brings the children of history to life-from the earliest civilizations to the Cold War, even imagining a child of the future. Packed with facts and including a specially commissioned illustration of each profiled child, this book examines the clothes children wore, the food they ate, the games they played, and the historic moments they witnessed-all through their own eyes. Maps, timelines, and collections of objects, as well as a perspective on the often ignored topic of family life through the ages, give wider historical background and present a unique side to history. Covering key curriculum topics in a new light, A Child Through Time is a perfect and visually stunning learning tool for children ages 7 and up.