Dan, the Newsboy

Dan, the Newsboy
Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: Jovian Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 153781589X

Tom Carver twirled his delicate cane and walked on complacently, feeling no pity for the schoolfellow with whom he used to be so intimate. He was intensely selfish - a more exceptional thing with boys than men. It sometimes happens that a boy who passes for good-hearted changes into a selfish man; but Tom required no change to become that. His heart was a very small one, and beat only for himself...

Cub Reporters

Cub Reporters
Author: Paige Gray
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438475411

Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children's literature of this time, including works from such writers as L. Frank Baum, Horatio Alger Jr., and Richard Harding Davis, as well as unique journalistic examples including the children's page of the Chicago Defender, subverts the idea of news. In these works, journalism is not a reporting of fact, but a reporting of artifice, or human-made apparatus—artistic, technological, psychological, cultural, or otherwise. Using a methodology that combines approaches from literary analysis, historicism, cultural studies, media studies, and childhood studies, Paige Gray shows how the cub reporters of children's literature report the truth of artifice and relish it. They signal an embrace of artifice as a means to access individual agency, and in doing so, both child and adult readers are encouraged to deconstruct and create the world anew.

The Biglow Papers

The Biglow Papers
Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1900
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Dan Versus Nature

Dan Versus Nature
Author: Don Calame
Publisher: Candlewick
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 153620059X

From screenwriter Don Calame comes another outrageously funny and raunchy tale of teen boys whose plans go awry — this time, on a survivalist camping trip. Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she’s sending her “two favorite men” on a survivalist camping trip to “bond.” Determined to trick Hank into showing his true — flawed — colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe best friend, Charlie, prepare a series of increasingly gross and embarrassing pranks. But the boys hadn’t counted on a hot girl joining their trip or on getting separated from their wilderness guide—not to mention the humiliating injuries Dan suffers in the course of terrorizing his stepdad-to-be. With a man-hungry bear on their trail, no supplies, and a lot of unpleasant itching going on, can Dan see his plan through now that his very survival depends on Hank?

The Young Salesman

The Young Salesman
Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734072786

Reproduction of the original: The Young Salesman by Horatio Alger

The Young Scout

The Young Scout
Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1895
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: