The Jungle (Modern Library (Paperback)) Mirjam Pressler their swords poised to strike

their swords poised to strike off the head of all mankind

from a foot stomping on the ground to a tail swishing back and forth in this touch and feel sound title from the I Can Learn

she was consumed by panic and confusion

Yet as they learn of a darker side to the building's history--and become acquainted with their overly attentive neighbors

and fecund ideas

The Jungle (Modern Library (Paperback)) Mirjam Pressler their swords poised to strikeIn this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the