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2) Starlings
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Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Kit visits her father's hometown for the first time following his death, she not only discovers that her family is strangely revered among the locals, but that she also has an important role in the town's future.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 21
Language
English
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If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species's ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old question: What makes a city great?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In The Overlooked Americans, public policy expert Elizabeth Currid-Halkett breaks through stereotypes about rural America. She traces how small towns are doing as well as, or better than, cities by many measures. She also shows how rural and urban Americans share core values, from opposing racism and upholding environmentalism to believing in democracy. When we focus too heavily on the far-right fringe, we overlook the millions of rural Americans...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Beck and Avery travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother's death, but uncover more than they anticipated.
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother's handwriting...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) was professor emeritus at Ghent University and one of the world's leading historians. His books include Mohammed and Charlemagne and Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe. Michael McCormick is the Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University.
Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
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Description
Life in a small town is similar to life in a city, but it's also different in important ways. Readers discover these differences and similarities as they explore what it's like to call a small town home. Colorful photographs of small-town life introduce readers to places such as the town library and town hall. These photographs are accompanied by accessible text designed to reflect early social studies curriculum topics. A helpful picture glossary...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
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Description
A city is an exciting place to live. It has tall buildings, many people, and a variety of ways to get from place to place. Readers learn what life is like in an urban community, and, in doing so, they explore important early social studies curriculum topics. Accessible, relatable text closely corresponds to vibrant photographs to help readers develop comprehension skills. A picture glossary is also included to aid in vocabulary building. Readers will...
10) Monstrous
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Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Latavia is presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient beast, she is determined to do whatever it takes to survive--even if that includes making a deal with the monster and endangering her crush and family.
"Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home after church. And above all-never, ever, go into Red Wood. These are the rules Latavia's aunt gives her when Latavia arrives in Sanctum, Alabama for the summer. Weird, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us. Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract--of our ability to work collectively for the public good--and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever...
12) Nitro Mountain
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Language
English
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Bound by alcohol and petty crime, a group of people from a mine-polluted corner of Virginia struggle with challenges ranging from torn loyalties and moral ambiguities to psychopathic tendencies and relentless traumas that shape their mutual love of music.
13) Urban places
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Lexile measure
BR 20L
Language
English
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Description
"In this nonfiction title, carefully leveled text and full-color photographs introduce the emergent reader to all the exciting things to see in a city. Pairs with the fiction title Wait, Ride, Walk."--
14) Town
Author
Lexile measure
AD 290L
Language
English
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Description
"How small is your town? Full-page photographs, simple sentences, and relevant key words help early learners discover where they live. This book also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggest guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension"--
15) Black snow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1994, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, and the killer was never found. But 25 years later the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case Detective James Cormack on the trail of the killer. Suspicion is cast over the entire town, fracturing the harmony they have spent years rebuilding....
17) The stone heart
Author
Series
Nameless City volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 380L
Language
English
Description
Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political solution for the disputed territory of the City itself. To complicate things further, Kaidu is fairly certain he's stumbled on a formula for the lost weapon of the mysterious founders of the City. . . . But sharing it with...
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English
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In Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history's most influential cities -Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.
Wilson issues a challenge to our collective understanding of history with the juxtapositions of freedom and its intrinsic failures; liberty and its deep-seated liabilities. Each revelation beckoning us deeper into a city's story, its political...
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Language
English
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"Let's go shopping down main street and visit with our neighbors. We live in a city! Learn about the people and things that make a city special, and explore how we can all take steps to make our city the best it can be! Bright, colorful photos paired with simple text help young readers learn about the different communities where they live"--
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English
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Trace Bowman isn't about to let Cheyenne hide away her heart. He can't ignore the way she has with his daughter, Zoey? or how she's reminded him of the power of love. Now he needs to convince Cheyenne that Redemption is more than a place to hide?it's also a way to be found.
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