city and town life

Introduces the world's most fascinating, fast-paced cities and how they grow and function, including suburbs, shanty towns, and high-rise business districts.

Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Tai?na (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Tai?no ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.

A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.

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.

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Tired of being criticized for not being a good sheep, Bea decides to leave the flock and start a new life in the big city, where she is certain that she will be more appreciated.

Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.

"Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world"--OCLC.

An annotated edition of Irish author James Joyce's 1914 work made up of fifteen short stories about strangers of various classes who all live in Dublin. Also includes a chronology of the stories' composition, a list of character connections between "Dubliners" and Joyce's "Ulysses, " and an excerpt from an opera referred to in the text.

With his reputation in tatters after his confrontation with another gay student is posted on social media, openly gay high schooler Peter Thompkins needs something big to fix his image. To prove he's not a self-hating gay, he agrees to help his best friend Alan produce a drag show in their rural hometown. As a result, Peter must find a way to deal with catty drag queens, homophobia, protesters, and a cute boy, and soon he's uncertain if his friendship with Alan will survive until the curtain falls.