![]() I wondered whether she was still on the fifty states.ĭoris, I'm going to contact your mother. Brown stared at me, her face made up like she had eaten some bad-smelling thing. I felt like a big, old hunk of a girl when I looked at him. Maybe they'll call him Light Bulbs or Mr. What you think Sherman is going to call that new boy? I asked. When Sherman named you that was your name for good. So when this new boy Amir came I tried to think of a name for him. But you can be taller than Dotty and still be short. Dotty is so short she looks like a little round dot. Mickey and Dotty don't look exactly alike. It fit them so good nobody bothered to give them new ones. We like Big Russell but we careful how we call him.Īnd Mickey and Dotty-the twins. ![]() But we also call him Big Hocks behind his back everybody's afraid to say that to his face. And we call Big Russell, Big Russell 'cause he's big. Like we call Yellow Bird, Yellow Bird cause he's little and pale and got a long beakish nose. I took one look at Amir and knew he'd have a hard time.įirst, he'd have to get a name. ![]() ![]() We'd all been together since last year-me, Yellow Bird, Big Russell, Mickey and Dotty, Sherman and the rest. It was hard to come to our fifth-grade class in April. And Amir looked at all of us like we was crazy. Brown asked Sherman to name the fiftieth state and he said he didn't remember but he could name the fifty-first. Yellow Bird was on the window ledge Russell crunched a big lollipop Mickey and Dotty raised their hands. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The house on mango st![]() ![]() Her most recent book, Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, a story in English and Spanish, will be published in September 2021. Cisneros is the author of two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek two books of poetry, My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman a children’s book, Hairs/Pelitos a selected anthology of her own work, Vintage Cisneros with Ester Hernández, Have You Seen Marie?, a fable for adults A House of My Own, a memoir and Puro Amor, a bilingual story that she also illustrated. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, she is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. ![]() ![]() Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Encyclopedia britannica 1797![]() All plates present and in excellent condition (obviously missing the ones from Volume14) If not for the above these would be listed at well over £2000 Having checked the prices asked and achieved for scruffy single volumes I have decided to list at the equivalent of £50 a book This is less than the price achieved for single books in far inferior condition Thanks for looking & please check my other items for sale Lots of rare books to be listed over the next few days If you require extra photo's or more information please ask PLEASE NOTE THAT SHIPPING WILL BE EXPENSIVE - ESPECIALLY IF OVERSEAS EACH BOOK WEIGHS IN EXCESS OF 2 KILOS EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO PUT MORE THAN £7 P&P - IT WILL BE CLOSER TO £35 FOR UK AND A LOT MORE FOR ABROAD PLEASE AWAIT INVOICE IF SUCCESSFUL BIDDER Hi - Just to answer all the questions - YES ALL PLATES RELEVANT TO THE VOLUMES ARE PRESENT. Volume 14 is unfortunately missing, and for some reason volumes 4 & 5 are bound together, with missing pages from after chemistry to COO. 1 Paul Kruse, The Story of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 17681943 (PhD thesis. It was developed during the encyclopedias. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1797 Encyclopaedia Britannica 3rd Edition - missing Vol 14 A stunning condition near complete set of the valued 3rd edition 16 books, each in virtually unread condition. the thirteen thousand sets sold of the 1797 Encyclopdia Britannica,2 the. The Encyclopedia Britannica Third Edition (1797) is an 18 volume reference work plus two volumes of plates. ![]() |