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The Fighting Ground is a 1984 historical young-adult novel written by Edward Irving Wortis, under his pen name, Avi. The book is about the disillusioning experience of a young teenager who runs away to fight in the American Revolutionary War. The novel covers two days, 3 to 4 April 1778. [1]
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Dennis Edward Smith (September 9, 1940 – January 21, 2022) was an American firefighter and author. He was the author of 16 books, the most notable of which is the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse from the late 1960s and into the 1970s. [1]
Miller recently spent time traveling the country, talking with librarians, teachers and booksellers, as book bans skyrocket nationwide. A recent PEN America report found that there were over ...
PEN America's latest report details the damage that book bans do to authors. 'Matrix' novelist Lauren Groff is on the front lines with plans to open a Florida bookshop.
This online library is fighting back. Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN. December 16, 2023 at 1:00 PM. ... “This was a way to combat the book bans, but also to give people that sense of home and safety in ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
The Fighting Ground: Avi: Obscene language 1984 — 42 — Final Exit: Derek Humphry: References to assisted suicide 1991 — — 29 Flashcards of My Life: Charise Mericle Harper: Sexual content and unsuitable to age group 2006 — — — Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes: Sexual content 1966 — — 43 For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest ...