chicago (ill.)

Young readers will easily engage in Michelle Obama's life through the meticulously uncomplicated, age-appropriate language and explanation of concepts provided throughout this inspiring story.

Sudhir Venkatesh recounts how he managed to work his way into one of Chicago's must brutal crack-dealing gangs and describes the horrific events he witnessed, and sometimes participated in.

Explains how to use the computer science concept of data analysis to look at data about the population of Chicago in order to learn more about the city.

Explores the life of Michelle Obama, former First Lady and child and veteran rights activist.

Presents a novel about three Jewish families who live on both sides of California Avenue in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood and chronicles their loves, heartaches, friendships, and losses during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel describing the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young struggling immigrant.

Twelve-year-old Mar?a Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Mal?) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.

"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--Provided by publisher.

Forced to help in her parents' cadaver lab for the summer, Fovea Munson, twelve, discovers three talking heads in need of a favor.