city and town life

Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.

Abby and her friend Potsie work on several mysteries: a mysterious new neighbor, a missing person, a theft, and the unusual actions of Abby's brother.

Contains eleven puzzles in which children need to find specific objects within the pictures before they can move on to the next location; includes facts about cities and the people who live and work in them.

Examines entrepreneurship involving businesspeople and sports stars, including Derrick Rose, Phil Knight, and George Foreman, and discussing marketing, promotion, commercial products, and other related topics.

Examines entrepreneurship involving innovative inventors, including Jerry Lawson, inventor of the first video-game console system for home use, and Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker.

Albert's home is very loud--and all he wants to do is read! He escapes outside for some peace, and thinks he's found it at last. But, one by one, his friends boisterously infiltrate his space until Albert just can't take it anymore...and snaps! How will his friends react?.

Simple text and photographs describe a town and a home. Presented in English and Spanish.

After moving to a busy new neighborhood with his mother, Louie decides to explore and see if there is anyone he might like to have as a father.

Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin.

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.