By Richard Peck
In
rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting
school and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older
sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean,
old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Firehorse
By Diane Wilson
By Diane Wilson
Spirited
fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a
veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper
mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial
arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
By Jeannie Mobley
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town
to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard
work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant
her sisters' wishes.
By Kathryn Littlewood
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss
wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when
they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the
magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving
her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
By Betty G. Birney
Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.
By Mary Hooper
In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her
sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors
of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of
people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in
the city with no means of escape.
Petals in the Ashes
By Mary Hooper
Machines Go to Work in the City
By Mary Hooper
Hannah
and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as
their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister
Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire of 1666.
One Crazy Summer
By Rita Williams-Garcia
By Rita Williams-Garcia
In the summer of 1968,
after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month
with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two
younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their
mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of
their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
The Great Brain
By John Dennis Fitzgerald
By John Dennis Fitzgerald
The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his
younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for
gaining prestige or money.
Highway Robbery
By Kate Thompson
By Kate Thompson
On a cold day in eighteenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to
watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself
in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use
him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.
By Marie Rutkoski
Twelve-year-old Petra,
accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve
the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is
aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
By Siobhan Dowd
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris
wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is
"wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of
what happened to Salim.
The Diamond of Drury Lane: A Cat Royal Adventure
By Julia Golding
By Julia Golding
Catherine
"Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s
London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater,
which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist and involves her in the
street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
The City of Ember
By Jeanne DuPrau
By Jeanne DuPrau
In
the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a
Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city,
perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
By Maurie Manning
In
turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City, a shoeshine boy tries to
find the owner of a piece of red cloth, venturing up and down fire
escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the company of the
diverse people who live in the tenement buildings.
By William Low
In this interactive book, toddlers learn about city machines--from a
bucket truck to a tower crane to an airplane
By Emily Jenkins
Relates how the water in a park is used in different ways by the human and animal inhabitants of a neighborhood.
By John Rocco
When
a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they
find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
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