City and town life
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Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale
$19.00 Add to cartSOON TO BE CLAIRE DARLING–A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CATHERINE DENEUVE
When a wealthy woman decides to sell all of her worldly possessions, she unearths the secrets of her family’s past in this- Author: Rutledge, Lynda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0425261026
- Language: English
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Peyton Place
$18.95 Add to cartWhen Grace Metalious’s debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentiet… [more below]
- Series: Hardscrabble Books
- Author: Metalious, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 1999
- ISBN10: 1555534007
- Language: English
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Not Without Laughter
$19.99 Add to cartAlthough best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes proves himself one of modern literature’s most revered and versatile African-American authors with Not Wit
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0020209851
- Language: English
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Ragweed
$9.99 Add to cartThe first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca
A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is d
- Series: Poppy #1
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0380801671
- Language: English
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Seedfolks
$19.99 Read moreALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children’s Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts
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- Author: Fleischman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 11, 1997
- ISBN10: 0060274719
- Language: English
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Claro de Luna
$24.95 Read moreTa?na, una joven de catorce a?os, acaba de enterarse que es descendiente de una larga l?nea de fuertes mujeres ta?nas. Pero, le ayudar? esto a traer paz y justicia a su familia y comunidad?
Fourteen
- Author: Santiago, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1643796518
- Language: Spanish
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Underground
$12.99 Read moreDavid Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city’s various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, co
- Author: Macaulay, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 23 1983
- ISBN10: 0395340659
- Language: English
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Two Friends, One Dog, and a Very Unusual Week
$16.99 Read moreTake Pippi Longstocking’s joie de vivre, blend it with a 21st century urban setting, toss in a dog named Otto for good measure and what do you get? This joyfully carefree story about two unlikely frie… [more below]
- Author: Thomson, Sarah L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1682635163
- Language: English
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Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City (a Graphic Novel)
$12.99 Add to cartJoin two best friends–a mole and vole–on their everyday expeditions to find beautiful plants, meet new animals, and learn more about the world all around them in this nonfiction graphic novel.
Each- Author: Mosco, Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21, 2022
- ISBN10: 059312734X
- Language: English
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Most Delicious Soup and Other Stories
$18.99 Add to cart“A comparison can be made to Richard Scarry’s famous Busytown books; there’s always something going on in each corner of the picture.” —School Library Journal
Welcome to the Village of Villa Verde w
- Author: Ruiz Johnson, Mariana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 1922610615
- Language: English
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
$26.00 Read moreWINNER of the Gotham Book Prize * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize
Named a BEST BOOK OF- Author: Fofana, Sidik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1982145811
- Language: English
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The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist
$26.60 Add to cartYou remember the brutal crime, don’t you?
Maybe you read about it on Twitter. Maybe a friend sent you a news clip. Maybe you saw it on an episode of Spectral Journeys that night you were flipping throu
- Author: Kraus, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1947879553
- Language: English
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The Pirates Next Door: Starring the Jolley-Rogers
$19.99 Add to cartThe Jolley-Rogers have traded in the high seas for suburban life.
Meet the Jolley-Rogers — a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusu- Author: Duddle, Jonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 763658421
- Language: English
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Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!
$17.99 Add to cartRide, Roll, Run: Time for Fun! is a joyful, rhyming picture book that is an ode to community and outdoor play.
Pedal, pump.
Speed bump!
Ride, roll, run.
Friends and fun! This energetic picture book- Series: A Fun in the City Book
- Author: Bolling, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 141975629X
- Language: English
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Where I Live: Poems about My Home, My Street, and My Town
$18.99 Read moreWhat is home? Revel in the ineffable sense of belonging in anthologist Paul B. Janeczko’s diverse selection of poems with sure appeal for children.
Home is shoes tucked under the bed while you sleep,- Author: Janeczko, Paul B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1536200948
- Language: English
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City of Night
$19.00 Add to cart” Rechy’s] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling… [more below]
- Author: Rechy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0802121535
- Language: English
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Playing with Wildfire
$18.95 Add to cart“The broad sweeping compassion of this polyvocal novel takes my breath away.”
–CAMILLE T. DUNGY, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community,
- Author: Pritchett, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 1948814897
- Language: English
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Snow: (Caldecott Honor Book)
$19.99 Add to cartSnow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book.
No one thinks one or t
“It’s snowing, said boy with dog.
“It’s only a snowflake,” said grandfather with beard.- Author: Shulevitz, Uri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 374370923
- Language: English
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Dirt Creek
$17.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Blends a taut psychological thriller with a suspenseful police procedural…Fans of Liane Moriarty and Jane Harper won’t want to mi
Who’s lying about what happened at Dirt Creek?- Author: Scrivenor, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 30, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250834775
- Language: English
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My Town / Mi Pueblo
$18.99 Add to cartIn this bilingual picture book, cousins from opposite sides of the border visit each other’s towns and delight in their similarities and differences.
Two cousins live in two towns, separated by a rive- Author: Solis, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593109910
- Language: English
