mayors

Examines the roles and responsibilities that make a mayor's office and city council important facilities within a community.

Explains what mayors are and what they do and tells how a person gets to be mayor.

Arlo sees his town change for the worse after the Mayor bans and destroys all books, but by sharing stories Arlo helps set things right again.

The author shares his childhood growing up in a dying city, only for him to come back as the mayor and save it. Explores the journey he took to get there.

In this story based on The Emperor's new clothes, when Mayor Peacock commissions Travis the Tornado Tamer to protect the town, the weasel builds a transparent cover that he claims only smart and special people can see. Includes activities.

Mayor Fitch has Tale Town on lockdown as he prepares for war with the trolls, for whose magic he will risk everything, but Red, Jack, and the other children are determined to reveal the truth.

Andrew Harding, a BBC foreign correspondent, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud 'Tarzan' Nur--an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist. When the country collapsed into civil war and anarchy, Tarzan and his young family became part of an exodus, eventually spending twenty years in north London. In 2010 Tarzan returned, as mayor of Mogadishu, to the unrecognizable ruins of a city now almost entirely controlled by the Islamist militants of Al Shabab. Tarzan became a galvanizing symbol of courage and hope for Somalia. But for others, he was a divisive thug, who sank beneath the corruption and clan rivalries that continue today to threaten the country's revival.

Presents the life of New York social reformer, politician, and historian, DeWitt Clinton focusing on his childhood, education, governorship, as a U.S. senator, candidacy for the presidency, and legacy.

Two high school football players take action against their abusive coach when he becomes mayor and his crack cocaine use comes to light.

Nashville reporter Ochs Jones decides to do a little investigating of his own when the beloved African-American mayor of the city is assassinated and the facts surrounding the case and the suspected killer fail to make sense.