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1) Subway
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her mother enjoy a ride uptown on a city subway
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Why is it that the mass transit systems of American cities are, by and large, inadequate? It's a common question and one that has generated substantial scholarship. But Jake Berman's The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider it: a visual-and fun-journey through the past, present, and possible future of urban transit. Featuring Berman's own colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there's Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
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
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Written in direct address to the author's son Kevin, this is the moving and poignant true story about how one baby was adopted after being found on a New York City subway platform"-- Provided by publisher
10) I am the subway
Author
Publisher
Scribble
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Milo hace un largo viaje en metro. Para pasar el tiempo, observa a la gente a su alrededor y hace dibujos de cómo se imagina que son sus vidas. Está el hombre de bigotes con un crucigrama; Milo lo dibuja jugando al solitario en un apartamento desordenado. Está la mujer vestida de novia; Milo la dibuja en una gran ceremonia en la catedral. Y luego está el chico del traje; Milo lo dibuja llegando a su hogar, que es un castillo. ¿Pero qué pasa...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The authors have assembled a large collection of captioned images that represent Manhattan's grid of streets and blocks, the scale of its buildings, the rapid pace of its life, the types of people and things that populate it, the texts that cover every surface, and the love the city inspires. The hidden lives of skyscrapers, subways, streets, neighborhoods, cultural scenes, newspapers and magazines, and even language, trash and scents are included...
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