Peppino and the Streets of Gold - Hardcover

Rubino, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1942247087 ISBN 13: 9781942247081

Publisher: Catree.com, 2016

Synopsis

After living under dictatorship and through WWII in Italy, Peppino arrives in America in 1948 expecting to find streets "paved with gold." Instead he finds himself a foreigner, a Dago, living above a grocery shop with his parents and his Uncle Carlo, who sneaked in illegally through New York. He isn't prepared for the slush and bone chilling cold of a Chicago winter. When his old friend Dominic shows up, the temptation for the boys to connect with the "Outfit" who control the streets around Grand Avenue is fierce. They'd have money, a group to belong to, and life would be easy. Or would it?

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Peppino and the Streets of Gold
    After living under dictatorship and through WWII in Italy, Peppino arrives in America in 1948 expecting to find streets "paved with gold." Instead he finds himself a foreigner, a Dago, living above a grocery shop with his parents and his Uncle Carlo, who sneaked in illegally through New York.  He isn't prepared for the slush and bone chilling cold of a Chicago winter. When his old friend Dominic shows up, the temptation for the boys to connect with the "Outfit" who control the streets around Grand Avenue is fierce. They'd have money, a group to belong to, and life would be easy. Or would it?

About the Author

Ann Rubino is the author of Le Forestiere in Italian Women in Chicago and Peppino, Good as Bread, an intermediate-grade novel of World War II in Italy. The sequel, Peppino and the Streets of Gold (2016) follows Peppino as he comes to America and faces an immigrant'schallenges in Chicago in the late 1940's. Her most recent book, Emmet's Storm, is set in 1880's Iowa and features a boy teased by his peers about hisobsession with all things scientific. In the historic Children'sBlizzard of 1888, his knowledge makes him a hero. Following agranddaughter's complaint, "Why does Grandma only write about boys?" she is now working on a sequel to Emmet's Storm starring an inventive and independent girl.
 While Ann was teaching professionally, she won the OHAUS Award forinnovations in science teaching; took part in the creation of the NewGeneration Science Standards; sat on the review board of Science &Children magazine; and worked as a consultant for the Museum of Science& Industry, Chicago. She holds her MT(ASCP), B.A.Ed., and M.S. Ed.and an Endorsement in Gifted Education. Her last teaching assignment was as adjunct at Lewis University, training future teachers in methods ofscience teaching. Once retired, she reviewed many children's books forthe Recommends division of Science & Children and continued her work on the review board.

Edition details

• Publisher: Catree.com
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1942247087
• ISBN 13: 9781942247081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184