Geographic Orientation/Illinois
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Being Clem
$8.99 Add to cartThe final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from Coretta Scott King Author Honoree and Scott O’Dell Award medalist Lesa Cline-Ransome.
Clem can make anybody, even his grumpy older si- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0823452417
- Language: English
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Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
$32.00 Add to cartThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight
Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities.- Author: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541697243
- Language: English
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Ballpark Mysteries Super Special #3: Subway Series Surprise
$7.99 Read moreBatter up! It’s an NYC-themed Super Special! Ballpark Mysteries are fun, accessible early chapter books that cross baseball action with puzzling whodunits!
Catch a baseball mystery–in New York City!- Series: Ballpark Mysteries #3
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0525578927
- Language: English
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The Wrigley Riddle
$6.99 Add to cartNext up to the plate–book #6 in our early chapter book mystery series, where each book is set in a different American ballpark
Ivy-covered walls–they’re the most famous part of the Chicago Cubs’ hi… [more below]
- Series: Ballpark Mysteries #6
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0307977765
- Language: English
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The River Between Us
$8.99 Add to cartThe year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt’s brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 21 2005
- ISBN10: 0142403105
- Language: English
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
$19.99 Read moreJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and nat
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062235079
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
$8.99 Read moreA Newbery Honor Book
A summer they’ll never forget. Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice–two city slickers from Chicago–visit Grandma Dowdel’s seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, th- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0141303522
- Language: English
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Trees of Illinois: Including Tall Shrubs
$20.95 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated and comprehensive work is equally of use to botanists, foresters, horticulturists, and amateur naturalists. Kershaw and Hamilton have crafted 146 accounts describing 213 s… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Clem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1551054752
- Language: English
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Etta Invincible
$17.99 Add to cartIn this touching debut middle grade novel, a girl with hearing loss and a boy adjusting to life in a new country connect through their love of comics and get entangled in their own fantastical adventu… [more below]
- Author: Eschmann, Reese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1534468374
- Language: English
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Finding Langston
$16.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
When eleven-year-old Langston’s father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago’s Bronzeville dist
Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0823439607
- Language: English
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Lowji Discovers America
$7.99 Read moreDear Jamshed,
American is not so different from what we thought. I told you I wouldn’t see a single cowboy riding across the plain, and I haven’t. I have not even seen a plain. Still there are some- Author: Fleming, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1416958320
- Language: English
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The Ambrose Deception
$7.99 Add to cartMelissa is a nobody. Wilf is a slacker. Bondi is a show-off.
Not a single one of Melissa, Wilf, or Bondi’s middle school teachers would considerer them a star student. Yet to everyone’s surprise, Meli- Author: Ecton, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1484790057
- Language: English
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Samuel’s Choice
$9.99 Add to cartSamuel is a fourteen-year-old enslaved African American in Brooklyn in 1776 when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his doorstep. “Liberty ain’t for Africans,” says fellow serv
- Author: Berleth, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0807572195
- Language: English
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Edward and Annie: A Penguin Adventure
$17.99 Read moreJoin penguins Edward and Annie, the famous viral sensations, as they waddle through Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium in this funny and surprising adventure story that teaches kids and adults alike that life’s
- Author: Rivadeneira, Caryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 140022828X
- Language: English
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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Blackhawks: A Decade-By-Decade History
$40.00 Read moreThe Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s “Original Six,” have been building their storied legacy for decades. Since their founding in 1926, the Hawks have won six Stanley Cup championships and produce… [more below]
- Author: Chicago Tribune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1572842318
- Language: English
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Chicago’s WLS Radio
$31.99 Add to cartFrom its early days as the farmer’s companion to over a quarter century as the nation’s premier rock-and-roll station, WLS has touched the lives of millions of listeners. Many well-known celebrities, … [more below]
- Author: Childers, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1531640249
- Language: English
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Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
$20.00 Add to cartMonsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football is the New York Times bestselling gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime team and their lone Super Bowl season.
For Rich Cohen and mi- Author: Cohen, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1250056047
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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A Steady Rain
$15.00 Add to cartJoey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny’s wife and kids;
- Author: Huff, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0865479364
- Language: English
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Forgotten Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world’s most impressive architecture.
Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuilt the city, creating a radically new architectural sty
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Paulett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0738532797
- Language: English
