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Author : Paula Yoo
Release : 2005
Genre : Asian American children
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 476/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds by : Paula Yoo
Download or read book Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds written by Paula Yoo. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the childhood dreams and realities of the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal, achieved in the ten-meter platform diving event in 1948.
Author : Paula Yoo
Release : 2021-04-20
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by : Paula Yoo
Download or read book From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement written by Paula Yoo. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist for the 2022 YALSA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021 A Time Young Adult Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2021 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021 A Horn Book Best Book of 2021 A compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years’ probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial—the first involving a crime against an Asian American—and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement. Extensively researched from court transcripts, contemporary news accounts, and in-person interviews with key participants, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a suspenseful, nuanced, and authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, and a man who became a symbol against hatred and racism.
Author : Michael Bryant
Release : 2012-08-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 28 Seconds by : Michael Bryant
Download or read book 28 Seconds written by Michael Bryant. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A night that began with a dinner to celebrate his eleventh wedding anniversary ended in a jail cell for Michael Bryant. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing the death of cyclist Darcy Sheppard. Ironically, he had helped write the legal test for the same charges sixteen years earlier. Bryant, as Ontario's attorney general, was the man responsible for administering 500,000 criminal charges every year in that province. He now faced prosecution by the same justice system. The charges were eventually dropped, but nothing could undo what had happened to Sheppard-or Bryant.
Author : Pam Lidford
Release : 2021-06-22
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 16 Seconds by : Pam Lidford
Download or read book 16 Seconds written by Pam Lidford. This book was released on 2021-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 Seconds sets out to explode popular myths concerning the Law of Attraction and shows you how to truly create what you want. This book gives you the missing link to realise your dreams by addressing the all-important connection of your mind and vibrational self.
Author : Paula Yoo
Release : 2012-05-08
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 903/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Good Enough by : Paula Yoo
Download or read book Good Enough written by Paula Yoo. This book was released on 2012-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting 100 % on the SATs, or getting a date with a cute trumpet player? Scoring top honors in youth orchestra, or scoring tickets to a punk rock concert? Following your parents' dreams to an Ivy league college, or following your heart? It's senior year, and Patti Yoon is about to find out what it really takes to be good enough!
