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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida enters a small-town high school after years of attending a rural one-room schoolhouse, but the enthusiasm she and her new friends have for the modern world and modern ways pits them against the school's old-fashioned principal.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Big Book of Civil Engineering for Curious Kids 56 pages packed with information about. How cities developed around the world. The people who make cities their home. Architecture and culture. How urban planners organize a city and its services. The role of City Hall, Systems for water, waste, and energy. And innovations for an eco-friendly urban future.In the spirit of David Macaulay's The Way Things Work, I Love My City is a treasure trove of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn many interesting facts about the structure and set-up of towns. What does a school look like? What can you find in a shopping center? These huge-format, 40-page books, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup, feature fun-filled busy places. Bursting with information, humor, and color, they teach children about how towns function.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ember Lumen works at her family's shop in Firetown. One day, she receives a request for a special delivery that will take her deep into Element City. There's just one problem: Element City. As a Fire Element, Ember does not always fit in within the busy and very flammable city. But Ember is ready for the challenge and sets out on her journey. She encounters unexpected obstacles, meets friends both old and new, and discovers beautiful parts of the...
9) Sula
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in...
10) Looking up
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.
11) Kicks in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Pura Belprè Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner C. G. Esperanza delivers color, rhythm, and style in this rollicking tale about everyday treasures turned magical!
Author
Series
The tales of the city volume 10
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
Author
Series
Orca timeline volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"If you could design a city that would be both a great place to live and good for the planet, what would it look like? Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities and many of those cities face big challenges, including the climate crisis, food insecurity and rapid population growth, but they are also places where innovation can thrive. Peek into the past to see how cities have changed through time and explore what could make them...
14) Gets in the game
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Simon joins the basketball team, he is excited to be a part of a neighborhood tradition, but after some of his teammates leave for a better team, he decides to organize a pep rally to help Creighton Park and the community feel like they are part of something special.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1970s Texas, on the gulf coast, twenty-nine-year-old Lou, mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, attempts to solve the murder of her elderly neighbor and unearths disturbing secrets involving the history of her tight-knit, religious small town and its residents that may be the key to catching a killer.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Domingo, un solitario recolector de basura que vive en la calle, trata de sobrevivir en una ciudad indiferente y amenazadora cuan una hastiada vampiresa a la fuga aparece en su vida. Atl, descendiente de bebedores de sangre aztecas, es inteligente, preciosa y peligrosa, y Domingo queda hipnotizado. Atl necesita escapar rápidamente de la ciudad, lejos del clan narco-vampírico rival que la persigue sin descanso. También requiere de un ayudante y...
17) Somebody's fool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
19) Our pool
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is pool day in the city and everyone is welcome.
20) Yotsuba&!: 1
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Yotsuba and her daddy move to a new house and her neighbors wonder where the strange little girl came from and why she delights in everyday things.
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