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Raiders: A Novel
By William B. McCloskey. 2013
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Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Family stories, General fiction, Sea storiesUnited States history, United States travel and geography
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Twenty years after his greenhorn days in William McCloskey's bestselling novel Highliners, Hank Crawford stands tall as a respected fishing…
captain in Kodiak, Alaska. Set amongst the tumult of the early 1980s, Raiders follows the struggles of the Alaskan fishermen as they regain control of their fishing grounds from the fleets of foreign companies that have been plundering their bays. But such companies aren't deterred and instead contract American boats to catch the fish for them. To keep his family afloat, Hank signs on with a Japanese firm and ends up shunned as a traitor by his peers. But when Hank begins to suspect that his new employers are playing a political game with him as the pawn, he must confront the possibility that to find redemption, he may have to sacrifice all he has. UnratedGood night, Missouri (Good night our world series)
By Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper, Joe Veno. 2013
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Alphabet, number and picture books, Multi-cultural fiction, Gentle fictionGeneral non-fiction, United States travel and geography, United States history
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Introduces well-known features of Missouri, including The St. Louis Arch, The Kansas City Aquarium, the Mark Twain home in Hannibal,…
the Lake of the Ozarks, the Ozark Mountains, and Silver Dollar City. For preschool-grade 2Dog of discovery: a Newfoundland's adventures with Lewis and Clark
By Laurence Pringle. 2002
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Alphabet, number and picture booksHistory, Animals and wildlife, United States history
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An account of the Meriwether Lewis and William Clark expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1803-1806 that features the exploits…
of Lewis's large Newfoundland, Seaman. Relying on journals of expedition members and some "informed guesses," Pringle tells how Seaman earned his keep as hunter, retriever, and guard dog. For grades 4-7. 2002My hands sing the blues: Romare Bearden's childhood journey
By Jeanne Walker Harvey. 2011
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Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Alphabet, number and picture booksSocial issues, Music, Arts and entertainment, United States travel and geography, Music biography, United States history
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As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the…
whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare and his family, faced with Jim Crow laws, boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the blues and jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey tells the story of Bearden's children by describing the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. 2011. For grades K-3