Frank Carlson Library

Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.

"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...

"There's a certain kind of lost a boy feels in this world without a father. Tim felt it. I felt it. And we realized our only way out would be together. In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe, Roger Thompson meditates on the life and premature death of his best friend and business partner, Tim Garrety, cofounder of Skate Street Ventura. Roger and Tim's twenty-year friendship was forged in the surf and on the streets of 1980s California. Together...

These true autobiographical tales from renowned Hispanic author and educator Alma Flor Ada are filled with family love and traditions, secrets and deep friendships, and a gorgeous, moving picture of the island of Cuba, where Alma Flor grew up. Told through the eyes of a child, a whole world comes to life in these pages: the blind great-grandmother who never went to school but whose wisdom and generosity overflowed to those around her; the hired hand...

This is the author's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program. During the first semester in sixth grade, Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, this is a story of a more profound hunger - that of...

"In his third book, Robert Rebein pulls together a unified collection of narrative essays set largely on the high plains of western Kansas. He introduces readers to a world of feedlot cowboys, stock car drivers, and young boys dreaming of basketball glory, while also providing glimpses into a darker side: damaged young men returning home from war, long-haul truckers addicted to crystal meth, the sadly heroic residents of a nursing home bearing the...

“The NKJV Bible Study Bible” provides a study guide for every chapter of the Bible. Use this Bible to encourage discussion in a small group study or for further engagement in your personal devotions to gain a deeper understanding of any chapter in the Bible. Additional materials provide directions for leading a group through studies on specific topics such as the names of God, prayer, salvation, and suffering. Features include: • Double-column...

A book to help you unlock the power of the mind-body connection that's essential for achieving your peak figure skating performance. Perfect for skaters of all ages, as well as their parents and coaches, Embodied Confidence: 30 Days of Radical Mindset Shifts for Figure Skaters, is designed to help you unlock the power of the mind-body connection that's required to access your peak performance potential. You'll learn to notice the mindsets that prevent...

When eleven-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids' comedy camp she is mistaken for another student, so she decides to play the part.

On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date ... to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.