Tom Bodett
1) Exploded
Author
Description
There are certain defining events that occur to people-the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, at about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was " exploded" in Medford, Oregon.
In this collection of performance essays, the centerpiece is " Exploded"-Bodett' s recollections and reflections...
4) Williwaw!
Author
Pub. Date
c1999, 2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In their father's absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Historical photographs and text help chronicle the 1903 cross-country drive of Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson and his friend Sewall Crocker--the first automobile trip ever made across the U.S.--in a vehicle without a roof, windshield, or speeds higher than thirty miles an hour, without the aid of paved roads or streetlights.
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