Books with author Charles Nordhoff

Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family. In 1949, the year Newfoundland joins Confederation, Sophie soars over flooded prairies, dinosaur badlands, and the peaks of the Rockies. Each chapter is a snapshot of provincial history and an adventure in which she flies her cape, and the flag, in the name of Stars everywhere!

When Sophie LaGrange hears that her idol, Olympic gold medal winner Barbara Ann Scott, is coming to town to star in the Hollywood Ice Review in the fall of 1951, she can’t wait to meet the famous figure skater. But Sophie’s mother says they can’t afford the tickets for the show, so Sophie plots to meet Barbara Ann some other way, including asking her older brother Joseph to take her to his hockey practice on the back of his new motorcycle on the chance that she’ll see Barbara Ann practising. As Sophie tries to figure out a plan to see Barbara Ann, she also worries about running into an infamous motorcycle gang, the Satan’s Rebels. Sophie is horrified when she learns that the Satan’s Rebels are trying to convince Joseph to join them. Will Sophie get to see her idol? And how can she prevent her brother from joining such a dangerous gang?

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...if need be do something else, and he is no longer surplus, but highly necessary to civilization. More than one half of our planet still lies waste and useless, and suffers for lack of strong arms and stout hearts to redeem it. 322. And here I come to one of the most mischievous blunders of the trades-unions. They teach, if not directly, yet by the spirit of their doctrines, that men have a vested right in their employments: that a mason has a right to remain a mason, and that society owes him a living by that trade. I wish particularly to warn you against this error. No man has the least right to subsistence as merely a mason, or a shoemaker, a lawyer, a clergyman, a tailor, a bricklayer, or a miner. If his labor as a mason is surplus, if no more masons are wanted when he comes along with his trowel, it is his duty, not to conspire against society with absurd regulations about apprentices and hours of labor, but to go at something else. A man who regards himself as only a shoemaker, a mason, a tailor, a lawyer, a physician, or a clerk, becomes thereby a contemptible object. '. He loses his independence, and makes himself the sport of circumstances. In our days, when new inventions continually change the methods of labor, it is-especially hazardous for men to bind themselves for life to a single employment; and those only can hope to benefit both themselves and their fellow-laborers who, when they find their occupation overcrowded, have courage and independence enough to seek a new calling, and if possible a new field of labor. 323. Trades-unions and labor societies arise out of a perfectly just feeling, among hired laborers, that they are less comfortable than they wish to be. Education has, in all civilized countries, given to the great class of laborers f...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.