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Jazz Owls

2018-05-08 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2018-05-08
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jazz Owls by : Margarita Engle

Download or read book Jazz Owls written by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2018-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. Thousands of young Navy sailors are pouring into Los Angeles on their way to the front lines of World War II. They are teenagers, scared, longing to feel alive before they have to face the horrors of battle. Hot jazz music spiced with cool salsa rhythms calls them to dance with the local Mexican American girls, who jitterbug all night before working all day in the canneries. Proud to do their part for the war effort, these Jazz Owl girls are happy to dance with the sailors—until the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder. Suddenly the young white sailors are attacking these girls’ brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violence—when in reality these boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin. In soaring images and powerful poems, this is the breathtaking story of what became known as the Zoot Suit Riots as only Margarita Engle could tell it.

Jazz Owls

2018 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2018
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 440/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jazz Owls by : Margarita Engle

Download or read book Jazz Owls written by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Told in verse format.

Impossible Owls

2018-10-02 Literary Collections
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Release : 2018-10-02
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Impossible Owls by : Brian Phillips

Download or read book Impossible Owls written by Brian Phillips. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY. One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. “Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfiction In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he’s one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels. The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips’s Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces—go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do that, too). Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning. He searches for tigers in India, and uncovers a multigenerational mystery involving an oil tycoon and his niece turned stepdaughter turned wife in the Oklahoma town where he grew up. Through each adventure, Phillips’s remarkable voice becomes a character itself—full of verve, rich with offhanded humor, and revealing unexpected vulnerability. Dogged, self-aware, and radiating a contagious enthusiasm for his subjects, Phillips is an exhilarating guide to the confusion and wonder of the world today. If John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead was the last great collection of New Journalism from the print era, Impossible Owls is the first of the digital age.

Owl Always Love You

2020-08-25 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2020-08-25
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 406/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Owl Always Love You by : Patricia Hegarty

Download or read book Owl Always Love You written by Patricia Hegarty. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cozy bedtime book with die-cut pages that takes the reader through a forest filled with tired mice, sleepy squirrels, and other nighttime animals. Share cuddles of love with your little one with this cozy bedtime book! This engaging offering takes readers on a journey through a forest filled with tired and tiny field mice, sleepy squirrels, and other nighttime animals. With a die-cut on each page that figures into the story line.

Thrown Among Strangers

1990-11-15 History
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Release : 1990-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 813/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Thrown Among Strangers by : Douglas Monroy

Download or read book Thrown Among Strangers written by Douglas Monroy. This book was released on 1990-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization to the groveling, lizard- and acorn-eating Indians of such communities as Yang-na, now Los Angeles. So edified by history, many of those children drag their parents to as many missions as they can. Then there is the other side of the missions, one that a mural decorating a savings and loan office in the San Fernando Valley first showed to me as a child. On it a kindly priest holds a large cross over a kneeling Indian. For some reason, though, the padre apparently aims not to bless the Indian but rather to bludgeon him with the emblem of Christianity. This portrait, too, clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants. I carried the two childhood images with me both when I went to libraries as I researched the missions and when I revisited several missions thirty years after those family trips. In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.

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