suburban life

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.

Contains fifteen illustrated short stories, some humorous and some haunting, set in the Australian suburbs.

Rhyming text and photographs introduce various types of communities, from city and suburban to rural communities.

Suburban wife and mother Kate Klein learns the secrets that lie behind the postcard-perfect facade of Upchurch, Connecticut, and gains insights into her own life, when she launches an unofficial investigation into the murder of a fellow mom.

Thirteen-year-old Jasira is sent to live with her father in Houston, Texas, and discovers a man unable to give her the love she needs, so she begins to look elsewhere for affection.

Three motherless teenagers, Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, make an unlikely trio of friends, but the people they encounter in the course of their lives in the Arizona desert, including a stroke victim who believes a monkey lives in the back of his brain, Annabel's ghostly mother, and a gay, tuxedo-wearing pianist, are not any closer to normal.

When a man loses his composure and slaps a child who is not his own at a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a wide variety of people at the event examine the situation, revealing a sociocultural cross-section of beliefs about values and expectations.

Ben and Elaine from "The Graduate" settle down to a quiet life in suburban Westchester to home-school their two sons, and when a crisis arises, bringing Mrs. Robinson back into the family's life, the couple attempt to shock her by inviting a family of hippies into their home.

Laurie Lico Albanese recounts her childhood in a typical blue-collar neighborhood and describes how she escaped the cycle that almost destroyed her parents' lives. Presented in free verse form.