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1) Seedfolks
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden, especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant...
3) Windows
Author
Language
English
Description
Walking his dog at dusk, one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings, exploring your neighborhood, and coming home.
6) Say hello!
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Author
Language
English
Description
"One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment courtyard into a playground! Based on a true story, this is the uplifting tale of how the author's aunt and mother first learned to persevere in the face of disappointment and turned a dream into reality. This is a story of children's abillity to make a difference and of a community coming together to transform their neighborhood" --Jacket.
13) Lost on Owl Lane
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jessie is new to her neighborhood, and when she needs to find her way to the library, she asks for help from her neighbor, Sara, who uses a computer to make a map then teaches Jessie how to use it.
16) The best baker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Katie and her friend Haley visit a bakery and learn how to bake yummy treats.
17) Whippoorwill
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
19) Unfadeable
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
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