When Youth was Mine
Title | When Youth was Mine PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremiah Murphy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Kerry (Ireland) |
ISBN | 9780947548889 |
I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Title | I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine PDF eBook |
Author | David Chura |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010-03-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0807000655 |
Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a 2007 survey by the Campaign for Youth. Since 1992, every state except Nebraska has passed laws making it easier to prosecute youth under eighteen as adults, and most states have legalized harsher sentences for juveniles. David Chura taught high school in a New York county penitentiary for ten years and saw these young people—and the effects of our laws on them—up close. Here he introduces us to the real kids behind the hysteria: vibrant, animated kids full of humor and passion; kids who were born into families broken up and beaten down by drugs, gang violence, AIDS, poverty, and abuse. He also introduces us to wardens, correctional officers, family members, and doctors, and shows how everyone in this world is a child of disappointment. We meet Wade, who carries a stack of photos of his HIV-positive mother in his pocket to take out and share with pride. Khalil has spent all fifteen years of his life in foster care, group homes, juvenile detention, and mental hospitals, yet has channeled his inner demons into poetry. There’s Anna, a hard-nosed one-time teenage drug baroness who serves as a tutor to students and older women alike; Dominic, a father of two who only reads in jail, and only the Harry Potter books; and Eddyberto, a bright student and self-taught artist whose wildly creative drawings are confiscated and used to accuse him of being a potential terrorist and threat to national security. Then there’s O’Shay, a big, burly, snarling Bronx-Irish classroom officer with a surprising protective side for the underdog, and Ms. Wharton, a hallway officer with a spiky demeanor but a soft spot for animals. In language that carries both the grit of the street and the expansiveness of poetry, Chura breaks down the divisions we so easily erect between us and them, the keepers and the kept—and shows how, ultimately, we as individuals and as a society have failed these young people.
The Gold Mine Effect
Title | The Gold Mine Effect PDF eBook |
Author | Rasmus Ankersen |
Publisher | Icon Books Ltd |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 184831423X |
'A great read and a fascinating insight into performance.' Sir Clive Woodward We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question. Why have the best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are the leading female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed in producing so many world-class sprinters? Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone - or any business, organisation or team - can defy the many misconceptions of high performance and learn to build their own gold mine of real talent.
If You Could Be Mine
Title | If You Could Be Mine PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Farizan |
Publisher | Algonquin Young Readers |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013-08-20 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1616203102 |
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult One of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA Novels A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title A Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2013 A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2013 This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their Lives Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed. So they carry on in secret until Nasrin’s parents suddenly announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution: homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. Sahar will never be able to love Nasrin in the body she wants to be loved in without risking their lives, but is saving their love worth sacrificing her true self?
That's Mine!
Title | That's Mine! PDF eBook |
Author | Sumana Seeboruth |
Publisher | Barefoot Books |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2022-02-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1646863534 |
When one toddler in a childcare setting takes all the toy animals for herself, she discovers that monopolizing all the toys can be a bit lonely. Will offering one of the animals to another child help bridge the gap? In this gentle exploration of early friendship, toddlers will recognize the tension between wanting everything to be “mine!” and the desire to connect with other children.
Child of Mine
Title | Child of Mine PDF eBook |
Author | Beverly Lewis |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 144126454X |
From Bestselling Authors David & Beverly Lewis Flight instructor Jack Livingston has been raising his eight-year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident that took her parents' lives. When he travels, Natalie is tenderly cared for by her Amish nanny, Laura Mast, who loves the little girl as her own. Eight excruciating years ago, Kelly Maines's baby was kidnapped. Determined to find her child, Kelly has tirelessly pursued every lead to its bitter end. And now, with the clock ticking, one last clue from a private investigator ignites a tiny flame of hope: Just a few miles away lives a young girl who matches the profile. Can this be, at long last, Kelly's beloved daughter?
Mine!
Title | Mine! PDF eBook |
Author | Shutta Crum |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 037586346X |
A young child does not want to share his toys with his baby sibling, but an encounter with the family dog teaches everyone the importance of sharing. On board pages.