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3) City trains
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English
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"In City Trains, beginning readers will learn about city train and subway systems, such as the New York City Subway and Chicago 'L' that transport people in busy cities, both under and above crowded streets. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about city trains and their use"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rivers of London volume 3
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English
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When the son of a wealthy, politically powerful family is found dead, London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant investigates this case, which is linked to a rogue magician known as the Faceless Man--and which takes him deep within the deadliest subway system in the world.
6) Subway ride
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[2009]
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English
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Five young travelers take a journey around the world's subway stations, from Cairo to Stockholm to Moscow to New York.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 13
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English
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When he hears reports of a ghost haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, Geronimo sets out to investigate the story.
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[2016]
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English
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New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways, just cobblestone streets. That is, until Alfred Ely Beach had the idea for a fan-powered train that would travel underground. On February 26, 1870, after fifty-eight days of drilling and painting and plastering, Beach unveiled his masterpieceand throngs of visitors took turns swooshing down the track.
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[2021]
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English
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
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While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
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[2009]
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English
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In 1869, Alfred Beach wanted to build America's first air-powered railway below New York City, but Boss Tweed, powerful politician and notorious crook, opposed. Working under night cover, Beach and his crew carved a three-hundred-foot tunnel beneath a department store. Before long, the project was discovered and the public raved about its potential. But no further tunnels were ever built. What happened to Beach's railway, and where is it now?
14) Stuck
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[2019]
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English
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An original pop musical about six commuters who get trapped together on a New York City subway. Through the power of music, they learn about each other's lives and, in turn, have a profound impact on one another. Connecting across lines of race, culture, and class in a way that only situations of circumstance or happenstance can create, this will be a day that none of them will ever forget.
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English
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New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer in Miss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City.
Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But is this life she lives the only path she's on? Taking inspiration from the myth of Emer and Cuchulain...
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2021.
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English
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Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's first novel, Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her -- an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere -- a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints,...
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English
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Four men, armed with submachine guns, have seized a New York City subway train, holding all seventeen passengers--and the entire city--hostage. The identities of the hijackers are unknown. Their demands seem impossible. Their threats are real. Only one thing is certain: they aren't stopping for anything.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
20) Subway
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2010.
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English
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Simple, rhyming text follows two boys and their father as they spend a rainy day riding the various lines of the New York City subway system.
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