Frank McCourt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela's Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of...
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Six year-old Angela of Limerick, Ireland, worries for the Baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lives and on the damp, cold December nights the baby is sure to need her help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginati
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Language
English
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The fourth edition of the timeless composition guide, including an introduction by E. B. White and a foreword by Roger Angell.
First published in 1919 as a primer for Cornell University students, The Elements of Style became a renowned reference for writers of all kinds. With a straightforward manner that exemplifies its own advice, this succinct book covers everything from tips on proper comma usage to the principles of effective communication....
Author
Language
English
Description
This book will be a great and compelling reading experience, deeply moving, profoundly intelligent, and totally entertaining, including fiction and memoir about:
• Brothers by choice, or from different families but closely bonded by shared experience, work, trauma, love and marriage.
• Brothers who describe themselves as "brothers in arms, blood brothers, a band of brothers, the brother I never had."
The premise of Blauner's commentary and...
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs-or is thinking about writing one-this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson.
10) Angela's ashes
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story of a family in pre-war Limerick, Ireland and the struggle to overcome poverty.