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Author
Series
Publisher
Two-Can
Pub. Date
c2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Takes a close-up look at how plants, animals, and pests survive in harsh urban conditions. Focuses particularly on the damaging effect humans have had on cities and what action can be taken to improve the quality of city life. A Peruvian tale tells how the Incas built their first city and encourages readers to apply their knowledge of city habitats.
Author
Series
Shiver-by-the-sea volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After moving to small, spooky Massachusetts beach town Shiver-by-the-Sea, Bella Gossi must team up with her new friend to help a kid vampire find his way home.
17) Starlings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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.
Kit's father always told her he had no family, but his sudden death revealed the truth. Now she has a grandmother she never knew she had-- Agatha Starling-- and an invitation to visit her father's hometown, Rosemont....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible...