Listen for the Whippoorwill

Listen for the Whippoorwill
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher: Castle Rock Creative, Incorporated
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781939445124

LISTEN FOR THE WHIPPOORWILL Introducing Harriet Tubman Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember. Rosebud's world seemed like an endless pile of pots and pans to wash, food to prepare, and bread to bake. Her father worked long days in the fields while her fifteen-year-old brother Isaac was the stable boy. But when a series of tragedies strikes, Rosebud is left alone and very afraid. Her only hope is that the words of her father will come true: "Just listen for the whippoorwill." When the harvest season is over, this sound will be her signal to follow in a desperate attempt to escape her cruel slavery. On the darkest of nights, Rosebud will meet the mysterious person the slaves called "Moses," who will lead her and other slaves on a harrowing journey toward the North on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, known as "Moses," was also an escaped slave and became famous for leading bands of runaways on their dangerous passage to Canada. Will rosebud be able to keep up? Does Harriet Tubman know the way?

Flight of the Fugitives

Flight of the Fugitives
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781556614668

After coming to China to work as a missionary in the early 1930s, Gladys Aylward adopts several orphans and tries to save nearly a hundred more during the war between China and Japan.

Hear and There Book: Bird Calls

Hear and There Book: Bird Calls
Author: Frank Gallo
Publisher: Innovative Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781584760641

Each double-page spread includes clues, a tab to pull to uncover a picture of the correct bird, and a flap to lift to uncover more facts about that bird. The reader can push color-coded buttons to hear the song of the particular bird featured on each page to assist in identifying the bird.

Whippoorwill

Whippoorwill
Author: Joseph Monninger
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 054463649X

Two New Hampshire teenagers fall into an unlikely relationship as they come together to save a mistreated dog. Whippoorwill is a deeply poignant story about the virulent nature of abuse and the power of human empathy.

Bet the Farm

Bet the Farm
Author: Beth Hoffman
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 164283159X

"Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.

Danger on the Flying Trapeze

Danger on the Flying Trapeze
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781939445186

DANGER ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE: Introducing D.L. Moody -- Fourteen-year-old Casey Watkins wants nothing more than to escape his family's dreary, bare-bones life in the Philadelphia of 1893. When he learns of an opening in Adam Forepaugh's Circus, it seems like the perfect escape, and he convinces his mother and sister to join with him. Then "The Flying Eugenes," a family of trapeze artists, offer Casey a role in their death-defying act, and he is elated. Flying on the trapeze is more exciting than he ever dreamed! The pressure is on-Casey has only a few weeks to learn the act before the circus arrives in Chicago in time for the famous World's Fair. Once in Chicago, the boy is fascinated by D. L. Moody, the dynamic evangelist who preaches to standing-room-only crowds in the circus Big Top Sunday mornings. Casey never imagined that church could be more popular than the circus! But then a dangerous accident leaves him paralyzed with fear, and he runs to Moody looking for a way out. Will the evangelist be able to help him? The circus is counting on him . . . what if he falls?

The Bandit of Ashley Downs

The Bandit of Ashley Downs
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781556612701

With God's love, Curly, a young nineteenth-century English boy convicted of armed robbery, reforms his ways after being sent to one of George Müller's orphan homes.

Attack in the Rye Grass

Attack in the Rye Grass
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781556612732

The adventures of a young American boy who travels to the Oregon Territory with his missionary aunt and uncle. Ages 8 to 12.

The Parables of Sunlight

The Parables of Sunlight
Author: Margaret Dulaney
Publisher: Listen Well
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-10-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A memoir by author, Margaret Dulaney, of her middle years spent on a farm in Bucks County Pennsylvania. The book, which revolves around the purchase and care of a neglected farm, is filled with the love of all animals, wild and domestic.

To Hear the Forest Sing

To Hear the Forest Sing
Author: Margaret Dulaney
Publisher: Listen Well
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998602301

A collection of writings from the founder of the spoken word website Listen Well