Clarence Cochran, A Human Boy

Clarence Cochran, A Human Boy
Author: William Loizeaux
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429947268

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When Clarence Cochran wakes up one evening, he's shocked. Where are his antennae and his beautiful wings? And what is this strange pair of shorts that he's wearing? Clarence has changed from a cockroach into a tiny human boy! The other cockroaches are disgusted. Only Clarence's mother understands. "Be who you are," she says. "You will do wonderful things." And when the entire roach community – happily living in the messy Gilmartin kitchen – is threatened with extermination, Clarence does, setting out on a dangerous journey to enlist the help of ten-year-old Mimi Gilmartin in a quest to save his family and friends. Expressive drawings add visual punch to this funny, thoughtprovoking modern fable that shows how even the most hostile species can find a way to coexist.

Into the Wind

Into the Wind
Author: William Loizeaux
Publisher: One Elm Books
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1947159461

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A character-driven novel about the unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy and an elderly woman. The old woman badgers the boy into taking her sailing, but when the weather turns bad, it becomes a wild sail. It becomes the last trip before she goes into the hospital where she dies: but not before the two of them share memories of their last sail together. Hazel helps build the boy's confidence during a tough time in his home life. Both moving and joyful, Into the Wind is a poignant story about loss and love in a boy's life, and the surprising and sustaining bonds that can grow between the old and young.

Get Those Guys Reading!

Get Those Guys Reading!
Author: Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 159884847X

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Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.

The Tumble Inn

The Tumble Inn
Author: William Loizeaux
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0815653034

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Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There they muddle through their first season at the inn, serving barely edible dinners to guests, stranding themselves in chest-deep snowdrifts, and somehow, miraculously, amid swarms of ravenous black flies, conceiving a child, a girl they name Nat. Years later, when Mark and Fran are nearing middle age and Nat is a troubled teenager, Mark’s life is ripped apart, forever changed, and he must choose between returning to his old home in New Jersey or trying to rebuild what is left of his life and family in the place of his greatest joy and deepest sorrow. The Tumble Inn is a moving drama about home and about the fragility and resilience of love.

The Shooting of Rabbit Wells

The Shooting of Rabbit Wells
Author: William Loizeaux
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1628726180

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What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever. On a frigid winter’s night in 1973, William “Rabbit” Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by a white policeman named William Sorgie outside a bar in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The shooting, later ruled an accident, stunned local residents and the nation. For thirty years, author William Loizeaux, who went to high school with Rabbit, hasn’t been able to forget what happened. With clear-eyed compassion and unsparing honesty, The Shooting of Rabbit Wells re-creates the lives of both victim and killer, and the forces that brought them together. At the story’s center is Rabbit Wells himself. Part African-American, part Cherokee, part white, Rabbit never knew his father and was neglected by his mother. Here is a memoir, a biography, and the story of a writer’s search for the scattered remains of a catastrophe. A stirring and powerful document, it is also a work of terrible beauty: by giving us the life of Rabbit Wells, Loizeaux makes us understand—and feel—how unacceptable and irreparable the loss was, and how deeply the bullet that killed him is lodged in the American identity.

Talking Book Topics

Talking Book Topics
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Talking books
ISBN:

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The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2009
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

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School Library Journal

School Library Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Children's libraries
ISBN:

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The Human Boy

The Human Boy
Author: Eden Phillpotts
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-11-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979460293

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The Human Boy

The Human Boy Again (1908)

The Human Boy Again (1908)
Author: Eden Phillpotts
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781104394806

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.