Seedfolks
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled, inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 180
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: gardens, city and town life, community life [X], neighborhoods [X], neighborhood [X], audiobooks, compact discs, children's audiobooks
Franklin's Neighborhood
Franklin has to decide what he likes best about his neighborhood.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380
subjects: turtles, neighborhood [X], animals, community life [X], franklin (fictitious character : bourgeois), neighborhoods [X]
See You Around, Sam!
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: runaways, neighborhood [X], humorous stories, runaway children, community life [X], neighborhoods [X], humorous fiction
Be My Neighbor
Colorful photographs from around the world and simple text introduce the characteristics of a neighborhood and the concept of community.
307.3
year: 2005
copies: 36
call number/section: 307.3
lexile:
Some Good News
Nine-year-old cousins Rosie, Lily, and Tess make a neighborhood newspaper celebrating all their friends on Cobble Street.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: newspapers, cousins, neighborhoods [X], community life [X], cobble street cousins (fictitious characters), neighborhood [X]
Rum-a-tum-tum
Describes all the different sounds one can hear on Market Street.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
How To Get Famous In Brooklyn
Janie observes the day-to-day activity in her Brooklyn neighborhood and records it all in her notebook.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Lombardo's Law
A fifteen-year-old girl and her new thirteen-year-old male neighbor find their friendship deepening into a romance as they work on writing and filming a screenplay together.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: neighborhood [X], friendship, man-woman relationships, neighborhoods [X], teenagers, community life [X]
The War In Georgia
Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields than those in foreign lands.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: neighborhoods [X], family life, war, world war, 1939-1945, neighborhood [X], community life [X]
Look
Bored with being sick in bed, a child looks out his window and finds the street full of interesting people and activities.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 80
Newsman Ned Meets The New Family
Newsman Ned and his dog Pete find out about the new family moving in on Grove Street.
FIC
year: 1988
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
I Jog Around
Introduces young learners to the sound of the letter "j" through a story about jogging.
307.3
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: 307.3
lexile:
Pig Park
Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: neighborhood [X], community life [X], bakeries, family life, building, hispanic americans, juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / hispanic & latino, juvenile fiction / social issues / general (see also headings under family), juvenile fiction / love & romance, fiction / coming of age, chicago (ill.), bildungsromans, neighborhoods [X], families, bakers and bakeries, coming of age, latinos (u.s.), bildungsromans, electronic books, electronic books
Mi Comunidad
Examina las diferentes personas de una comunidad, explicando su trabajo y luego hacer la pregunta '?Quie?n soy yo?(S1(B.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: community life [X], human ecology, communities, neighborhoods [X], merchants, neighborhood [X], spanish language materials
Helpers In Your Neighborhood
"Get to know the everyday heroes in your community! From firefighters to teachers, mail carriers to crossing guards, neighbood helpers are all around.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: public safety, neighborhoods [X], communities, neighborhood [X], community life [X], readers (publications)