Fritz Family Book, 1600-2001

Fritz Family Book, 1600-2001
Author: Roy Fritz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2001
Genre: Boyd County (Neb.)
ISBN:

Johann Gottlieb Fritz, Sr. was born 10 November 1834 in Heutensbach, Germany. His parents were Friedrich Fritz and Christina Barbara Krautter. He married Gottlieben Kuzalmann 22 March 1859 in Unterwiessach. They had five children. He married Katherine Barbara Rapp 1 June 1871 in Weiler zum Stein. They had nine children. They emigrated in 1880 and settled in Nebraska. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Wisconsin and California.

Everywhere Blue

Everywhere Blue
Author: Joanne Rossmassler Fritz
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0823448622

A brother's disappearance turns one family upside down, revealing painful secrets that threaten the life they've always known. When twelve-year-old Maddie's older brother vanishes from his college campus, her carefully ordered world falls apart. Nothing will fill the void of her beloved oldest sibling. Meanwhile Maddie's older sister reacts by staying out late, and her parents are always distracted by the search for Strum. Drowning in grief and confusion, the family's musical household falls silent. Though Maddie is the youngest, she knows Strum better than anyone. He used to confide in her, sharing his fears about the climate crisis and their planet's future. So, Maddie starts looking for clues: Was Strum unhappy? Were the arguments with their dad getting worse? Or could his disappearance have something to do with those endangered butterflies he loved . . . Scared and on her own, Maddie picks up the pieces of her family's fractured lives. Maybe her parents aren't who she thought they were. Maybe her nervous thoughts and compulsive counting mean she needs help. And maybe finding Strum won't solve everything--but she knows he's out there, and she has to try. This powerful debut novel in verse addresses the climate crisis, intergenerational discourse, and mental illness in an accessible, hopeful way. With a gorgeous narrative voice, Everywhere Blue is perfect for fans of Eventown and OCDaniel. An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Cybils Award Poetry Winner!

A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold)

A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545682436

From NYT bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west. A Night Divided joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!With the rise of the Berlin Wall, Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.But one day on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Gerta concludes that her father wants her and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?

Adventure on a Dare

Adventure on a Dare
Author: Fritz T. Sprandel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438956630

Adventure on a DARE is the first in a series of true-life accounts describing Fritz T. Sprandel s journey into himself in which he discovers his capricious nature and raises questions about the nature of faith. During the course of his adventure, Fritz visits a variety of natural wonders, small towns, and fascinating people on a budget of ten cents and his own amazing resourcefulness. After overcoming the challenges of the wild, he finds himself in a foreign country, falsely charged with espionage. Then he faces, and incredibly survives relatively unscathed, a revolutionary tribunal trial in Castro s Cuba. The people he meets, the experiences he encounters, and the lessons he learns all become part of him. They form steps in his journey to meaning, although it s a voyage that contains a deeper significance he doesn t fully comprehend while he s traveling. Adventure on a DARE hearkens back to the travels of Mark Twain s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and satiates our irresistible urge to fulfill our dreams of adventure. It explores the theme of personal freedom and challenges the promise of the American dream. There s something for everyone in this story: a travelogue with interesting locations, colorful characters who lend drama, adventures in facing nature s wrath alone, and the suspense of a Communist courtroom are all elements of the journey. Above all else, it is fun and engrossing a worthwhile escape from everyday life.

Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920

Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920
Author: Tomas Jaehn
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826334985

A history of the German presence in the American Southwest, from the mid-nineteenth century through the World War I era.

Fritz Von Erich

Fritz Von Erich
Author: Ron Mullinax
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-09-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781635241822

Fritz Von Erich: Master of the Iron Claw is the story about the life and times of Jack Adkisson, also known as pro wrestling legend Fritz Von Erich, and the famous Von Erich wrestling dynasty. "Not since the Kennedys of Massachusetts has an American family publicly suffered personal tragedy after personal tragedy like the Von Erichs of Denton County, Texas." While the Kennedy family became famous worldwide for their political accomplishments and the tragedies of their sons, the Von Erich family became famous worldwide for their athletic accomplishments and the tragedies in their family. Read how Fritz Von Erich and his five sons impacted the wrestling world with their family's show World Class Championship Wrestling, which at one time was syndicated in 66 U.S. television markets, Japan, Argentina, and the Middle East. The story, as told to Ron Mullinax by Jack Adkisson himself, follows his wrestling career and family tragedies beginning in the 1950s and continuing until his death in 1997.

The Cabin Faced West

The Cabin Faced West
Author: Jean Fritz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2001-08-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101077948

Ann Hamilton's family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton Hill, and life is hard. But when the Hamiltons survive a terrible storm and receive a surprise visit from George Washington, Ann realizes that pioneer life is exciting and special.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
Author: James B. Mills
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1574418793

In the annals of American western history, few people have left behind such lasting and far-reaching fame as Billy the Kid. Some have suggested that his legend began with his death at the end of Pat Garrett’s revolver on the night of July 14, 1881, in Fort Sumner. Others believe that the legend began with his unforgettable jailbreak in Lincoln, New Mexico, several months prior on April 28, 1881. Others still insist his legend began with the publication in 1926 of Walter Noble Burns’s book, The Saga of Billy the Kid. James B. Mills has left no stone unturned in his twenty-year quest to tell the complete story of Billy the Kid. He explores the Kid’s disputable origins, his family’s migration from New York into the Southwest, and how he became an orphan, as well as his involvement in the Lincoln County War, his outlaw exploits, and his dealings with Governor Lew Wallace. Mills illuminates the Kid’s relationships with his enemies, lovers, and numerous friends to contextualize the man’s character beyond his death and legacy. Most importantly, Mills is the first historian to fully detail the Kid’s relations with New Mexicans of Spanish descent. So, the question remains, who really was the person the world knows as Billy the Kid? Was he more than a young reprobate committed to a life of crime, who relished becoming a famous outlaw and cold-blooded, self-absorbed “sociopath” or “thug” that some still prefer him—need him—to be? Or was he in fact, the generally good-hearted, generous, courteous, young vigilante that so many remembered with considerable fondness, who ultimately preferred the company of the more peaceable Hispanic population than his own Anglo people? In this groundbreaking biography, Mills takes the reader closer to the flesh-and-blood human being named Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, than ever before.