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Author
Publisher
Caligrama
Language
English
Description
El amor. La soledad. La vida. La búsqueda de todo aquello que nos hace genuinamente humanos. Unicornios Urbanos es una colección de relatos que nacen del asombro ante la naturaleza humana y la vida cotidiana de la gente. El lector se enfrenta a temas que apelan a una sensibilidad muy actual y que son narrados con un estilo urbano y original. Un joven solitario y soñador busca incansablemente un ser de carne y hueso que encarne las características...
2) Secret place
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy finds a patch of wilderness in the city.
3) Black cat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.
4) Snow
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With rapidly increasing numbers of cats stuck in her tree, Nana Quimby asks for help from the firehouse, the police, the pet shop, the zoo, the library, and even city hall, but no one will help rescue the cats.
9) Heat wave
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Abigail, Ralphie, and the other citizens of Lumberville struggle to endure a week-long heat wave.
10) Tangle Town
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Roxy has to find her lost cow Mosey on a "typical" day in Tangle Town.
11) Eyewitness city
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Introduces the world's most fascinating, fast-paced cities and how they grow and function, including suburbs, shanty towns, and high-rise business districts.
12) Dhalgren
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Describes life after the cataclysm in the American city of Bellona, where the skyies are darkened from burning buildings, the population consists of youth gangs and drifters, and a charismatic poet leads them to a better life
13) Iris and Walter
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Iris moves to the country, she misses the city where she formerly lived; but with the help of a new friend named Walter, she learns to adjust to her new home.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. In its pages, You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to life--flawed, real, lovable strangers who are wonderful company and prove unforgettable even after...
15) Dusk
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city"--
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 2
Publisher
Lion Pub
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Mitford's Village Rector, Father Tim, is running scared. He can no longer deny (even to himself), that he's in love with his neighbor, Cynthia Coppersmith. Cynthia, after all, sees in him a man of warmth and daring--if only he'll meet her halfway.
Abounding with characters both old and new, A Light in the Window compels readers to do something they treasure: laugh out loud.
But now a wealthy widow is pursuing Father Tim with hot casseroles. And...
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