Bloomfield, Suzanne George & REED, Eric Melvin. Adventures in the West; stories for young readers.BLOOMFIELD, Suzanne George & REED, Eric Melvin Eric Scott Melvin, sometimes called Melvin for short, is the rhythm guitarist in the California punk band NOFX. He has been in the band from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. . Adventures in the West; stories for young readers. Univ. of Nebraska Press. 280p. illus, bibliog, c2007 978-0-8032-5974-4. $19,95. JS Twenty-six stories originally published in a weekly newspaper, The Youth's Companion, and a monthly magazine, St. Nicholas, between 1890 and 1917, give YAs a unique view of America. We read about cowboys, rustlers Rustlers are a range of burgers and hot sandwiches produced by Kepak Convenience Foods, based in Kirkham, Lancashire. The parent company, Kepak, is based in Dublin, Ireland. , horse thieves, claim jumpers, pioneers, Indians, steam railroads, grasshopper grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with powerful hind legs and strong mandibles, or mouthparts, adapted for chewing. infestations, child labor child labor, use of the young as workers in factories, farms, and mines. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain. , destructive weather, mining, and early automobiles. The stories reveal attitudes about immigrants, women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , racism, cultural bias, and family values. The main characters are usually teens. The collection begins with the story of a Pueblo Indian boy who saves his tribe from a traitorous shaman and ends with a tale by L. Frank Baum about a wealthy banker's son who helps a lonely old woman. In between are stories about a cattle stampede, a girl who learns that not all cowboys are violent, a myth about the origin of the buffalo, a heroic black stallion, a helpful coyote coyote (kī`ōt, kīō`tē) or prairie wolf, small, swift wolf, Canis latrans, native to W North America. It is found in deserts, prairies, open woodlands, and brush country; it is also called brush wolf. , and a young girl who stops a violent labor dispute. While the authors echo the prejudices of their era, the stories are uplifting and teach the value of honesty, pluck, hard work. and true grit. Includes 15 b/w illustrations. Janet Julian, English Teacher (retired), Grafton, MA J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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