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1) Wow! City!
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Izzy, raised in the mountains, has only one word to describe the people, buildings, cars, and other exciting things she sees in the big, bustling city.
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Detailed essays, extensive photos, and informative sidebars describe life in ancient Sumer, showing the results of significant archaeological digs; also includes a time line and a bibliography.
7) The bookshop
Author
Language
English
Description
When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.
10) Zombiekins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The boring town of Dementedyville is livened up by a mysterious stuffed animal called Zombiekins that turns things upside down when exposed to moonlight.
11) Symphony city
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's McMullens
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
An illustrated story that follows a little girl who gets lost in the city but listens to the music of the streets to find her way back home again.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
14) Needful things
Author
Language
English
Description
Leland Gaunt opens a shop called Needful Things where there is something for everyone, but of course there is always a very high price to pay.
15) Blackout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Neighbors gather on the roof after the power goes out on a hot night in the city and start having so much fun not everyone is happy when the lights go back on.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius”...
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius”...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast." --
Have you ever stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? Mars and Kohlstedt reveal the stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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