subways

In London during World War II, Alice enters quarantine with her boyfriend Alfred, whose tuberculosis doctors think might kill him by morning. She reads him their favorite story--"Alice in Wonderland"--and soon has difficulty separating reality from the story. Eventually Alice is forced to choose between the comfort of the story and the pain of real life.

"Elementary readers will follow the sequence of the process taken to build an extension of a subway system, from the proposal, planning, tunnel digging, and construction of the train and tracks. A table of contents, glossary, further resources, and an index are included"--Provided by publisher.

"James Kelly smelled EVERYTHING: rats in the shed; circus elephants a mile away; tomorrow's rain. His sense of smell was EXTRAORDINARY. But what good was a powerful nose? How could his super-sniffer make him special? In the New York City subway, James found his calling--and earned the nickname Smelly Kelly. Armed with his super-sniffer and the tools he invented, he tracked down leaks from the dangerous to the disgusting, from the comical to the bizarre. Then, he sprang into action to prevent cave-ins and explosions in the tunnels beneath the city. Smelly Kelly not only hunted leaks but also saved lives--and he discovered the truly extraordinary power inside him"--OCLC.

Clayton is forbidden by his mother from playing the blues after his grandfather dies and runs away to the subways to join a band.

Photographs and simple text describe subways, how they work and the role they play in the world's cities.

When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.

Richard Mayhew stops to help a bleeding girl on a London street and in doing so finds that he has fallen through the cracks of reality.

Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels, and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.

A subway train is often the light at the end of the tunnel. It travels underneath a city in its own network of underground passageways. Readers just starting out will go deep in this title to discover a form of train transportation hidden from plain view.

Driving around a busy downtown area can be a hassle, especially during rush hour. Cars, taxis, buses, bicycles, and pedestrians create traffic jams on city streets. So city trains are the answer for many people. In this title, beginning readers will follow city trains from stop to stop.