Books with author Harry Stanley

Here for the first time in a book for young readers is the story of the African American forty-niners who went west to seek fortunes and freedom in the California Gold Rush.Among the thousands drawn west by the California Gold Rush were many African Americans. Some were free men and women in search of opportunity; others were slaves brought from the slave states of the South. Some found freedom and wealth in the gold fields and growing cities of California, but all faced the deeply entrenched prejudices of the era.To tell this story Hurry Freedom! focuses on the life of Mifflin Gibbs, who arrived in San Francisco in 1850 and established a successful boot and shoe business. But Gibbs's story is more than one of business and personal success: With other African American San Franciscans, he led a campaign to obtain equal legal and civil rights for Blacks in California.

Shows all the tools, materials, and techniques needed to finish a basement, from framing walls to installing finish flooring and fixtures. Shows how to develop plans for functional and attractive basement rooms, including laundry rooms, storage spaces, bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms, recreation rooms, and more.Designed with two tiers: one to cover basic project and one to present extra information to cover options and unusual circumstances and Stanley Pro Tips. Simulated hyperlinks draw readers to extra information for unusual situations and additional information.

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Award-winning author Jerry Stanley tells a true story of the Industrial Revolution and the role women played in the early history of America's labot unions. Annie Clemenc was the wife of a miner in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. When the miners struck in 1913, Annie led them in daily protest demonstrations, only to suffer beatings and imprisonment. But her determination inspired the miners to continue to strike against great odds. Gripping and informative, this is a story that illustrates the experience of the industrial laborers who built modern America.

Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field. "The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) Booklist.

Charles Miller goes back in time to the Battle of Lexington in 1775 after being visited by Ben Sampson, who lives in 1775 and appears in 2006 in the Miller home in Lexington. Charles and Ben spend eleven hours of tension, anxietyand turmoil before and during the Battle. Charles meets Ben's father and other Minutemen, as well as Paul Revere, John Hancock, Sam Adams and Captain John Parker, all of whom Charles sees as real people rather than the larger-than-life characters of history books.As they share in the adventures of Charles and Ben, young readers will learn about one of the great events of American history. They also will discover who fired the shot that began the Battle of Lexington – one of the mysteries of American history – and the American Revolution.

Charles Miller thinks that George Washington is cool.1n 1776, boys didn't say that someone was cool. But Charles isn't from 1776. His lives in the present day and travels back in time to help Ben Sampson free his father, Benjamin, from a British prison in Boston before the Redcoats evacuate the city. If they fail, Benjamin will be on prison ship bound for Nova Scotia in two days.George and Ben meet George Washington and the mysterious Captain Tallmadge, Washington's spy chief, who helps them enter British-occupied Boston to free Benjamin and find Ben's sister Emmy, who has disappeared.The risks are great. If they are captured, they may be imprisoned as spies - or even hanged. Is there anyone in Boston who can help them? Can Charles use modern-day technology and his knowledge of history to help them succeed without violating the Time Travel Paradox?Or will he fail and be trapped forever in 1776?