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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explores a neighborhood that has only one of several kinds of buildings, but within each there are many things, such as different kinds of breads in the bakery, then shows that the neighborhood itself is just one of many in a world united by a single wish.
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Series
Country Road chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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The Worthams and Hammonds are as close as two families could be, sharing almost everything on their Depression-era Illinois farms. So when a raging fire breaks out and threatens to destroy the Hammond farm, both families are affected by the tragedy. But how did the fire start? Several of the kids know the truth, but no one is talking. As the families try to overcome aching loss, misplaced blame, troubled relationships, and an upsetting secret, they...
6) Someone
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
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Language
English
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The Fourth of July delivers more than just the local display of fireworks for Samuel and Julia Wortham. They return from the festivities in Dearing, Illinois, to find Samuel's borther Edward, out of prison and on their doorstep. Surprise turns to shock and confusion as Edward introduces a young girl named Katie and declares that Samuel is her father. Samuel maintains his innocence and cannot understand why his brother would make up such a story, Julia...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
9) Pet show
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Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 7
Language
English
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When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.
10) Meet a dentist!
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"This book introduces the role of dentists in their community"--
11) Meet a doctor!
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Two children learn the importance of doctors in their community"--
12) Meet a coach!
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"This book introduces the role of coaches in their community"--
13) Meet a grocer!
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"This book introduces the role of grocers in their community"--
15) Pretty Girl-13
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Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 11
Language
English
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When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
19) Unfadeable
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle...
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