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Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:12:15 PM
Jerry Davis added Jesse Owens: An American Life to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "After growing up in a small Alabama hamlet, Owens moved to Cleveland in junior high school where a coach discovered and nurtured his athletic talent. He went on to Ohio State University before competing in the 1936 summer games in Berlin. Easily wooed"
Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:51:01 PM
Jerry Davis added Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (5) to his Bookshelf
Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:49:41 PM
Jerry Davis added Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (P.S.) to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "Zuckoff travels the world and drills deeply into the historical archives in this true account of the group of World War II soldiers who crash in a remote region of Dutch New Guinea. The author even travels back to the site of the crash and interviews some"
Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:45:45 PM
Jerry Davis added The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "Leiner is an attorney who has a terrific sense of the complicated legal and military history of the early republic, especially after the second war for American independence."
Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:43:19 PM
Jerry Davis added Speak to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "This is a fun take on the trials and tribulations of school age kids and how they view the world of high school."
Friday, November 16, 2012 5:38:45 PM
Jerry Davis added Who Was Albert Einstein? to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "Readers in grades 4 to 5 in particular have a harder time reading nonfiction. The vocabulary is difficult and they often don't understand much of the context of a story. Take biographies of American presidents, for example, in the DK series. These can be"
Friday, November 16, 2012 5:36:16 PM
Jerry Davis added Esperanza Rising to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "An applicant recently shared this book with me as one of her and her mother's favorites. "We read it together!" she said. "I just love historical fiction." Well, with that statement, I just had to read it myself. Author Pam Munoz Ryan weaves a fascina"
Sunday, November 11, 2012 11:59:32 AM
Jerry Davis commented on Jerry Davis's Profile:
Jerry said, "Thanks for your welcome note!"
Sunday, November 11, 2012 11:56:09 AM
Jerry Davis added Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "Peg Schulze Kehret's account of her fight against polio (1949-50), which struck her at age 12, vividly recalls her hospitalization and treatment even though she wrote the story over four decades later. Kehret's current struggle with postpolio syndrome und"
Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:17:09 PM
Jerry Davis commented on Eric Hammond's Profile:
Jerry said, "Thank you for welcoming me to JacketFlap!"
Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:08:44 PM
Jerry Davis added Beyond The Western Sea: Book One: The Escape From Home to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "I thought I would stop after the first volume, but it is a good story and just had to find out how the trans-Atlantic voyage would go and what would happen to these kids after arriving in Boston. The theme of xenophobia and the Know Nothing Party of the 1"
Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:07:29 PM
Jerry Davis added Lord Kirkle's Money (Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2) to his Bookshelf
Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:05:46 PM
Jerry Davis added The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "This is a classic! It is one of the guided reading assignments in 5th grade at The Oakridge School."
Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:04:03 PM
Jerry Davis added The Secret School to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "This was on the summer reading list for 4th graders at The Oakridge School. Avi is a great storyteller and weaves some historical fact into his fiction. For parents looking for good stories to keep their children's academic skills honed during the summer"
Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:02:23 PM
Jerry Davis added The Great Wide Sea to his Bookshelf
Jerry said, "Gripping account of a family who loses their mother in a tragic car accident, then the dad and his three sons sell the home, the sail boat, and set off for a year-long sail from the Florida Keys to the Bermudas. Well, that wasn't the plan initially, but t"
Sunday, April 22, 2012 7:05:24 AM
Jerry Davis added Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States to his Bookshelf
Sunday, April 22, 2012 7:01:22 AM
Jerry Davis added Treason's Harbour (Vol. Book 9) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) to his Bookshelf
Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:19:06 PM
Jerry Davis added a link to Chamberlain's Navy: Grasp of War (1862) on his profile page