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Summary: The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE Set Spanish Keats 1962Brown, Carron
Summary: Desde los autos, los autobuses y las bicicletas que van por las calles, hasta los museos, los restaurantes y lost teatros llenos de gente. Las páginas de este libro te invitan a descubrir muchos lugares de una ciudad llena de actividad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BROde la Peña, Matt
Summary: "Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty and fun in their routine and the world around...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Corimbo 2016
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH DELMulder, Michelle.
Summary: Picture a busy avenue. Now plant trees along the boulevard, paint a mural by the empty lot, and add a community garden. Set up benches along the sidewalks and make space for kids' chalk drawings, and you've set the scene for a thriving community. Placemaking--personalizing public and semi-private spaces like front yards--is a growing trend in cities and suburbs around the world, drawing people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ORCA Book Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 307.1 MULSummary: The heartwarming 'tail' of a young girl whose life is changed by a scruffy, fun-loving pooch she names Winn-Dixie. The special bond between them works magic on her reserved dad and the eccentric townspeople they meet during one unforgettable summer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BECGeisert, Bonnie.
Summary: Describes a year in the present-day life of a mountain town that was founded when prospectors searching for gold arrived in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 307.72 GEIBalkan, Gabrielle
Summary: Illustrated maps of fifty American cities feature famous residents, and key cultural sites and are complemented by a guide to daily life in the city and numerous city facts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2017
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Summary: The sounds of the big city are brought to life in labeled pictures showing such sources as boat and car horns, tapping heels, and construction equipment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1989
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Toddler Emberley 1989Tuma, Refe
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUMSchertle, Alice
Summary: A country truck feels out of place in the speedy, noisy city until he comes to the rescue during a giant traffic jam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: A little girl and her dog unexpectedly discover a way to spread happiness and light in their dreary, rainy town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERFrawley, Katie
Summary: An elephant in the rainforest is looking for a birthday adventure, and a pampered city kitty is getting bored with her luxe life; when the two connect over Lair-BNB, they discover the joys of new places and of finding your way back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions, Amazon Publishing 2021
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Summary: The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KELWynter, Anne
Summary: "In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WYNSima, Jessie
Summary: While shopping with her two dads for supplies for her birthday party, Harriet, who is wearing a penguin costume, is carried away by a waddle of penguins and must hatch a plan in order to get herself back to the store in the city.--Provided by Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: "A boy and his mom move to the city shortly before Sukkot and need to figure out where to build a sukkah and how to make new holiday traditions in an unfamiliar place"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERTodd-Stanton, Joe
Summary: "When Nyla has to leave her home in the countryside to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts glow and grow, Nyla can't resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before ... but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022
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Summary: "When a sandwich goes missing, it seems that a bear is the unlikely culprit"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SARKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: There are twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek Middle School. They've been together all their lives. And in this small factory town where everyone knows everything about everyone, that's not necessarily a great thing. There are thirteen desks in the seventh-grade classroom. That's because Renni Dean's father got a promotion, and the family moved to Grand Saintlodge, the nearest big...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Meet Hilda -- explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper, and friend to every creature in the valley! Well ... almost every creature ... Newly initiated into the Sparrow Scouts, Hilda and her friends are ready to explore and document the wilderness. Yet as luck would have it, there is a dark, menacing creature afoot near Trolberg, and Hilda is whisked back home to safety. Even so, intrigue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAVEsperanza, C. G. (Charles George)
Summary: Colorful, psychedelic sneakers hang from telephones wires all over the city. Up in the sky, they hang for all to marvel at. But when a few special pairs get knocked down, the kids have to try them on. Soon they're racing, dancing, learning to fly! These enchanted sneaks are out of this world--but where did they come from? And who would ever leave these behind?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESPTaylor, Theodore
Summary: Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAYCole, Henry
Summary: In this wordless picture book, a cat named Spot ventures out an open window and through a city on a journey, while his owner tries to find him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLThomson, Sarah L.
Summary: Straight-laced fifth grader Emily's world is turned upside down when new neighbor and free spirit Rani moves in with her dog Otto.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023