All American Boys

• Author : Jason Reynolds,Brendan Kiely
• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• Release : 02 March 2021

A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn - a varsity basketball player and

• Author : Frank Kusch
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 31 March 2023

Annotation Looks at the experiences of American draft dodgers in Canada during the Vietnam War, arguing that many of these young men were motivated not only by their opposition to the war but also by their sense of alienation from American society as a whole.

• Author : Walter Cunningham
• Publisher : ibooks
• Release : 03 February 2010

"“The most realistic look yet at astronaut life.” —Chicago Sun-Times “The best of all the astronaut books...” —Los Angeles Times The All-American Boys is a no-holds-barred candid memoir by a former Marine jet jockey and physicist who became NASA's second civilian astronaut. Walter Cunningham presents the astronauts in all their glory in this dramatically revised and updated edition that was considered an instant classic in its first edition over two decades ago. From its insider's view of the pervasive ""astropolitics""

• Author : Larzer Ziff
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 01 October 2012

From his celebrated appearance, hatchet in hand, in Parson Mason Locke Weems's Life of Washington to Booth Tarkington's Penrod, the all-American boy was an iconic figure in American literature for well over a century. Sometimes he was a "good boy," whose dutiful behavior was intended as a model for real boys to emulate. Other times, he was a "bad boy," whose mischievous escapades could be excused either as youthful exuberance that foreshadowed adult industriousness or as deserved attacks on undemocratic

• Author : Brendan Kiely,Jason Reynolds
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 12 June 2017

Two US American teenagers - one black, one white - have to deal with consequences of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country, bitterly divided by racial tension.

• Author : David I. Macleod
• Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
• Release : 30 September 2004

Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class boyhood. Back in print; First paperback edition.

• Author : Daniel D. Challener
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 21 October 2019

What helps a child overcome extraordinary obstacles? Why do some children surmount many difficulties and go on to live fulfilling lives while other children who face similar difficulties end up living desperate, sad lives? What helps children beat the odds? What builds resilience in children? These are critically important questions, yet for too long social scientists, doctors, psychologists and teachers have studied children who failed and tried to figure out what caused the failure. Only relatively recently have they begun

• Author : Kenneth B. Kidd
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• Release : 31 March 2023

Will boys be boys? What are little boys made of? Kenneth B. Kidd responds to these familiar questions with a thorough review of boy culture in America since the late nineteenth century. From the "boy work" promoted by character-building organizations such as Scouting and 4-H to current therapeutic and pop psychological obsessions with children's self-esteem, Kidd presents the great variety of cultural influences on the changing notion of boyhood.Kidd finds that the education and supervision of boys in the

• Author : American Legion. Annual National Convention
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 2023

• Author : American Legion. National Convention
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 1999

• Author : American Legion. Annual National Convention
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 2023

• Author : Jason Reynolds,Brendan Kiely
• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• Release : 05 October 2021

I just wanted him to stop beating me. I just wanted to live. After a violent act that leaves their community and, ultimately, the country divided, Rashad and Quinn - one Black, one White - face the truth that racism and prejudice are all around us. And there's a future at stake, a future where no one will have deal with police brutality. They just have to risk everything they've ever known to speak out. With evocative black and white

• Author : Boy Scouts of America
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 2023

• Author : Ryan K. Anderson
• Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
• Release : 25 September 2015

Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in 1896, but over

• Author : Ricki Ginsberg,Wendy J. Glenn
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 March 2019

With a focus on fostering democratic, equitable education for young people, Ginsberg and Glenn’s engaging text showcases a wide variety of innovative, critical classroom approaches that extend beyond traditional literary theories commonly used in K-12 and higher education classrooms and provides opportunities to explore young adult (YA) texts in new and essential ways. The chapters pair YA texts with critical practices and perspectives for culturally affirming and sustaining teaching and include resources, suggested titles, and classroom strategies. Following a