city and town life

A century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices.

"Lovelock, Nevada. A boy walks into the fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. By day's end, the body burning in the desert hills is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel. A seemingly unremarkable man, he left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school, but connected with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. Sal found Adam's body, charred almost beyond recognition, half a mile from his uncles' compound. Nora Wheaton, the middle school's social studies teacher, delves into Adam's past and finds a dark history she understands all too well"--OCLC.

"When bananas and donuts go missing from the grocery and bakery, Kathy the police officer is on the case! But that's only part of her very busy day"--Back cover.

"Kevin the librarian knows a lot of things! But when the books about elephants go missing, can he solve the case?"--Back cover.

Armed with pencils, paints, dreams, and Abuela Addy's memories of how beautiful the neighborhood once was, a boy and his neighbors paint the big wall that had been cold, empty, and cheerless. Presented in Spanish.

Photographs and easy-to-read, rhyming text introduce how basic STEAM concepts can be found in the architecture, building, construction, and transportation of city life. Includes notes about what to look for while wandering through a city.

Cassie Dewell, a new detective in Grimstad, the oil capital of North Dakota, realizes that she may be in over her head when a gang war heats up, the temperature drops to 30 below, and twelve year old Kyle Westergaard, who witnessed a car accident and took a mysterious bundle from the scene, keeps showing up where he doesn't belong.

Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.

"Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. It's a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there"--OCLC.

"When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend"--Provided by publisher.