suburban life

"Frances Chin, a 10-year old Chinese-American girl, lives with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances copes with bullies and the loneliness of not quite fitting in. And at home, her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. But, with the help of her friend Annie, Frances is determined to solve the mystery of Clara's condition"--.

"When Jane moves to the suburbs and thinks her life is over, she and three new friends form a club to make public art but are soon distracted by romance"--Provided by publisher.

After a series of troubling hallucinations, Ragle Gumm begins to suspect that his memories have been altered and that he is living in a universe gone terribly awry.

"A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac"--Provided by publisher.

A teen boy in upstate New York begins breaking into homes and hacking the owners' computers to learn their secrets; sometimes he even shares the secrets in prank emails. However, when a woman in the neighborhood is murdered, suspicion mounts. The neighbors will do anything to protect their secrets, to find out who the boy is and what he knows.

"For decades the suburbs have been where art happens "despite": despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. The familiar story is one of gems formed under pressure, creative transcendence fueled by suburban resentment. But what if the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clich?s and pieties, these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look"--.

Neighbors begin to turn on each other after a series of break-ins is followed by a murder.

"When Jane moves to the suburbs and thinks her life is over, she and three new friends form a club to make public art but are soon distracted by romance"--Provided by publisher.

After a stack of Harry Potter books kill Ren's mother, she finds herself trapped in a Connecticut suburb with her father who grieves too much to live in New York. But when a new friend at school confides to Ren that she is communicating online with an older man, Ren comes up with a plan to stop it.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes living in a suburban community, and describes neighborhoods and the different kinds of homes, community services such as hospitals, police, and firemen, and more.