Listening For Leroy
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Listening For Leroy
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Author : Betsy Gould Hearne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Listening For Leroy written by Betsy Gould Hearne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, ten-year-old Alice has no one to talk to but Leroy, the black farm hand, but when Alice's doctor father moves the family to Tennessee, she has trouble fitting in and she sorely misses Leroy.
Money Talks Listen
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Author : George Leroy Straker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-05
Money Talks Listen written by George Leroy Straker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with categories.
This book offers simple ideas on saving money and creating wealth that can set you apart from your friends who are in disbelief
A Medal For Leroy
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Author : Michael Morpurgo
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-09-27
A Medal For Leroy written by Michael Morpurgo and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Inspired by the true story of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army, this is a stunning new novel of identity and loss by Michael Morpurgo, biggest UK children’s author and the bestselling, award-winning writer of War Horse, now a smash West End and Broadway hit as well as an Oscar-nominated movie.
Leroy Something That Rhymes
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Author : Tannie Stovall
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005-06-14
Leroy Something That Rhymes written by Tannie Stovall and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-14 with Fiction categories.
The novel LEROY is the story of a young African American of the same name raised and educated in France. His parents are both African Americans. His mother is an international civil servant with UNESCO and his father is a successful cabaret owner in Paris. The novel opened in the main square of Saint Tropez France where Leroy is convinced that his neighbor, Eric, has just made a homosexual overtures towards his adolescent son. Leroy overcomes reticence to make a scene and a fear that as a black he is helpless to provide protection even for his son. This leads to flashbacks in which Leroy family life and his education in France are reviewed. Leroy was raised in an upper class neighborhood of Paris and attended schools frequented by privileged children. He acquired refined manners plus a superior cultural education that contrasted with that of his parents. This led to problems of identity that are treated in the novel. Leroy received an excellent higher education and married a beautiful French woman with a similar educational background who come from a family with a left winged political history. With the help of his father, brother, son and wife, he became a successful businessman and mayor of a large French city. Yet he is haunted by the fear that his off springs will be intellectually inferior because of their race. He is greatly influenced by the book; The Bell Shaped Curved and much of the novel are reactions, not necessarily negative, to assertions made in the work. As Leroy moves up politically and financially. Nevertheless, he discovers racism in France unlike that which he parents knew in the United States. Because he doubts his hereditary intelligence, he compensates by untiring hard work. He works very hard on his job and coped successfully with the problem of certain potential customers being reticent to deal with blacks. He surmounts all difficulties, shrewdly purchases stock options in the firm for which he works from fellow employees and eventually finds himself in reaching distance of acquiring a controlling interest. Eventually he gains control of the French company where he suffered racial prejudice. With the help of the mysterious Swinborn Foundation, a non governmental organization whose manifest goal is to assistance the United States government with matters it approves but are too delicate for direct involvement. At Leroy fathers request, the Swinborn Foundation takes charge of making Leroy an important political figure in France. There are two subplots. The first concerns Leroy 14-year-old son, Gaetan, who is putatively sexually abused by Eric, a 40-year old French scholar. Eric is arrested and discovers that his fate strongly depends on what will be most favorable for Leroy political ambitions. Gaetan is a particularly mature and brilliant young man who cooperates with agents of the Swinborn Foundation to best exploit his relationship with Eric in order to help his fathers political aspirations. The second subplot involves Leroy father, Johnny, and his contribution to the breaking up of the Soviet Union. Johnny was a front man for a CIA operation to purchase various Soviet arms for use by forces fighting against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. A surface to air missile that past through Johnnys hands was used to shoot down an American airplane. This led to Johnny incarceration which had a negative effect on his sons political aspirations followed by a very positive effects when friends of the CIA cleared him and tried to compensate him for his inconvenience by helping his son with his political and business career in France. Leroy struggles is not only to succeed but also to belong, to be accepted by society. His feeling of non-acceptance is manifest by his feeling that he does not have a single close friend either among Frenchmen or in the African American community in France.
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
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Author : Kate DiCamillo
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up written by Kate DiCamillo and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn’t have is a horse – until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it’s love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good? Join Leroy, Maybelline, and a cast of familiar characters – Stella, Frank, Mrs. Watson, and everyone’s favorite porcine wonder, Mercy – for some hilarious and heartfelt horsing around on Deckawoo Drive.
Leroy
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Author : Nathalie Rosamond Andrews
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2014-12-12
Leroy written by Nathalie Rosamond Andrews and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Fiction categories.
This book explores the life and times of Leroy, a young West- Indian boy who travels from Grenada to England to join his parents who have arrived and settled in their new environment, hoping for a better life.Leroy faces many challenges at home and at school as he struggles to accept the changes which confront him every day. This novel offers an insight into the lives of his parenrts, siblings and other youngsters in this situation and has its full share of humour,drama,tragedy,emotionlal conflict and surprise.Leroy is a must read for all those who seek to understand West- Indian culture.
Liberty S Lions
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Author : Dan LeRoy
language : en
Publisher: Sophia
Release Date : 2021-03-26
Liberty S Lions written by Dan LeRoy and has been published by Sophia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-26 with categories.
This is the fascinating story of Catholic heroes who, despite discrimination and persecution, saw the promise of America and sought to fight for its independence. Some of these Catholic heroes were Americans, like the three Carroll brothersmof Maryland who included Charles, the longest-lived signer of the Declaration of Independence, John, America's first bishop, and John Barry, one of the founders of the U.S. Navy. Other heroes were foreign-born: Frenchmen like legendary generals the Marquis de Lafayette and the Comte de Rochambeau, as well as Polish soldiers such as Casimir Pulaski, the founder of the U.S. Calvary, and the daring Thaddeus Kosciuszko. All were inspired by their Catholic faith to join the Revolution and its call for human freedom and dignity. For all who are passionate about the Catholic Faith and the American experiment, Dan LeRoy's Liberty's Lions is a book you won't be able to put down.
Sarah
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Author : JT LeRoy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-08-04
Sarah written by JT LeRoy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-04 with Fiction categories.
A reissue of the national bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert - published to coincide with the Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story. 'A deft and imaginative...novel' New York Times Book Review Sarah never admits that she's his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a "lot lizard": a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own leather mini-skirt and a makeup bag that closes with Velcro, the young "Cherry Vanilla" embarks on a journey through the Appalachian wilds, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint - and then being denounced as the devil. By turns exhilarating and shocking, magical and realistic, Sarah brings urgency, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.
Iola Leroy Or Shadows Uplifted
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Author : Frances E. W. Harper
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08-30
Iola Leroy Or Shadows Uplifted written by Frances E. W. Harper and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-30 with Fiction categories.
This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community.
The Flight Of Jesse Leroy Brown
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Author : Theodore Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2022-08-30
The Flight Of Jesse Leroy Brown written by Theodore Taylor and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This biography of America’s first African American naval aviator is a “compelling portrait of a quiet hero [and] the racial climate between 1926 and 1959” (Booklist). “In the late 1940s, when every aspiring black pilot had heard of the army’s Tuskegee program, Jesse Leroy Brown set his sights on becoming a navy aviator. An outstanding student and top athlete, the 17-year-old’s ambition was met with a combination of incredulity and resistance. Yet, at a time when Jim Crow laws were rampant, Brown managed to break the color barrier to become the first black U.S. Navy pilot. Taylor puts his considerable narrative skills to good use in tracing Brown’s path from his youth in poverty-stricken Palmer’s Crossing, Miss., to his eventual induction into the heady and dangerous world of carrier aviation. Taylor based much of his research on interviews with those who knew Brown and on personal letters from more than a half-century ago [and] doesn't skimp on the indignities Brown suffered. . . . An engaging and intimate glimpse of a young pioneer who desperately wanted to earn his aviator’s wings.” —Publishers Weekly “More than a biography, this is a thrilling story of naval aviation and combat.” —School Library Journal
