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The Real Diary of a Real Boy

by Shute Henry Augustus

Nonfiction » Education » Education Theory » History

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Do you want to look at the USA of 19th century with your own eyes? And how about with the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy? Reading his diary day by day, you will explore everyday life with him, fight with schoolboys, make cigars, take beatings from the Father, go to the corner shop… it’s as if you plunge into that world, that time and honesty and truthfulness of a young boy help you in it.
This book was highly appreciated by the national readers, Henry Shute got his fame through it.

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...Mrs. Lewises frontdoor. Then we put a old hat on it and hung a peace of paper on it andwrote man wanted on the paper. Tomorrow all the people who go to churchwill see it and laff becaus Mister Lewis got a devorse. They will besome fun tomorrow. Feb. 5. I coodent wright ennything last nite becaus i got sent to bedand got a licking. I tell you we got in a auful scrape. Sunday morningme and Pewt and Beany went out erly to see our snowman. He was there andwhen people began to go by they began to laff, and most of the peoplesaid it was the funniest thing they ever see and who ever put it therewas a pretty smart feller. So we said we did it and Pewt said he thoughtof it ferst and Beany said he did, and i said i did most of the werk. Well, pretty soon some people came along and looked at it and said itwas a shame and they went over to pull of the paper and she came out andsee it, and she took a broom and nocked it over and broke it all up. Andthen she went rite down to my house to tell...