ISBN: 1588381056
Author: Billy Moore
Language: English
Publisher: NewSouth Books (August 1, 2003)
Pages: 256
Category: Fairy Tales Folk Tales & Myths
Subcategory: Kids
Rating: 4.1
Votes: 772
Size Fb2: 1757 kb
Size ePub: 1312 kb
Size Djvu: 1760 kb
Other formats: rtf azw doc lit
Over the summer Cracker teaches the mule to respond to his voice and together they learn to plow. The summer passes with lazy days of fishing in the local creek mixed with frightening episodes involving poisonous snakes.
Over the summer Cracker teaches the mule to respond to his voice and together they learn to plow. During the polio scare of the 1950s, a boy's parents send him for the summer from his small-towm Florida home to the refuge of his grandparents' farm in rural Alabama. He settles into country life with Papa and Bigmother. The locals nickname him Cracker, after the term for Florida cowboys.
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Book Format: Paperback. The mule turns out to be blind and Cracker must suffer ridicule while caring for the animal he comes to love. Over the summer Cracker teaches the mule to respond to his voice and together they learn to plow. In this idyllic setting, Cracker makes the transition from boy to young man.
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Cracker’s Mule may be enjoyed by good readers of the protagonist’s age. But as Harry Potter has shown, a. .
Cracker’s Mule may be enjoyed by good readers of the protagonist’s age. But as Harry Potter has shown, a well-written work can attract an adult audience. will appeal to those who appreciate reading about a time rich in Southern tradition. Inspired by his own childhood, Billy Moore spins a folksy down-home yarn about a boy's eleventh summer at his grandparents' farm and the cantankerous and loveable characters who challenge and support his emerging maturity. Following a livestock auction, the boy, Cracker, takes home a stone-blind mule, opening this tale of misadventure which includes a bull-headed dog, a duo of ornery mules plus the sightless, Mr. Sam.
Billy Moore was born in Liverpool, England. He has worked as a teacher, a Muay Thai fighter, and an extra on film sets. Following his release from prison in Thailand, he returned to Britain, where he now lives with his family. Once I cracked the spine open, I turned the pages with ease. The story takes a candid look at the consequences of relapse from addiction without blaming parents, neighborhoods or "the system". Moore paints a clear portrait of the internal struggles of sobriety long after the last drink or sniff and the uncontrollable hell that relapse wrecks on a person's life.
Billy Moore Birthplace: Liverpool, England, UK. Questioning the Story: What led to Billy Moore's decline into a life . Questioning the Story: What led to Billy Moore's decline into a life of crime and drugs? Moore suffered an abusive childhood at the hands of his alcoholic father, as described in his book A Prayer Before Dawn, on which the movie is based. I was brought up being told I was worthless and thinking there was no value in life," says Moore. He grew up in poverty in Liverpool's council estates (public housing) in Walton, where he began his slow slide into a life of crime and drug addiction (cocaine and heroin).
Tales from a Counry Man. Published by Thriftbooks. com User, 14 years ago. Reading Cracker's Mule was like listening to my father. It took me to a time when I would sit in Daddy's lap and hear him tell the tales of his childhood. Billy Moore takes the country between Alabama and Florida he and my father both live in and gave it the only voice it could have-an honest one.
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