"It's June 9 1944, three days after D-Day. On the orders of the government, Captain John Miller and his men go to look for Private James Ryan. They must bring him home. But how many will survive the mission?" - back cover.
Jmenuji se Tom Sawyer a bydlím u své tety v malém městečku na řece Mississippi. Přiznám se, že nerad chodím do školy a vyhýbám se práci. Nejradši bych trávil veškerý čas se svými kamarády Huckem a Joeem. Zažíváme spolu různá dobrodružství. Přidej se k nám a pomoz nám najít poklad obávaného Joea Indiána. Známé příběhy od Marka Twaina jsou převyprávěny tak, aby jim pomocí krásných ilustrací Antonína Šplíchala porozuměly i malé děti.
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."This simplified book includes an introduction and extensive activity material, like all Penguin Readers.