city life

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city life

Polly's puffin

1989
While they are in a restaurant, Baby Jim tosses his sister Polly's toy puffin into the hood of a stranger's coat, and he leads them a merry chase through the city.

An even break

1995
Twelve-year-old Frisk Tilden gets the summer job every kid wants, wins a pool tournament, and gains the admiration of the people in his small southern town.

Pearl Moscowitz's last stand

1993
Pearl Moscowitz takes a stand when the city government tries to chop down the last ginko tree on her street.

Snow

1999
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

Madison moves to the country

1989
Madison A. Mouse makes a surprising discovery after moving from the noisy city to the peaceful country.

Busybody Nora

1991
Relates the adventures of an inquisitive little girl who lives in a large apartment building in New York with her parents and little brother Teddy.

Felita

1990
The everyday experiences of an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl growing up in a close-knit urban community.

Come to town

1987
A visit to town includes stops at the school, the office, the supermarket, and the library.

Too hot for ice cream

1974
After Sara's plans to go swimming on the hottest day of the summer have to be cancelled, everything starts to go wrong.

The great gerbil roundup

1988
In an effort to put the town of Gerbil, Pennsylvania on the map, the residents open up The First National Drive-Thru Museum of American Sightseeing and Clean Rest Rooms and stage a gerbil roundup and jubilee.

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