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1) Seedfolks
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One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden, especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant...
3) Goggles!
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English
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Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
4) Rumble fish
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English
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A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
5) Snow
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English
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As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
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Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
10) Around town
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
A tour of Legoville features the different jobs that vehicles and people do during a typical day.
11) Doug unplugged
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
12) Safe at home
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English
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After the death of his father, 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.
13) Apt. 3
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English
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On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.
14) Before morning
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English
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Let snow fall overnight and change the world before morning, making it "slow and delightful and white."
16) City baby
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"A poetic board book that reminds baby of all the joys of living in a bustling big city."--
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Appears on these lists
DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
HAR--Kids Summer Reading 2023 All Together Now
MCL - John Newbery Medal
HAR--Kids Summer Reading 2023 All Together Now
MCL - John Newbery Medal
Description
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
19) Bat 6
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Pub. Date
1998.
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English
Description
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
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"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents...instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it...and she'll have to face...angry locals and an unexpected friendship...while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and the city itself, are doomed forever"--
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