city life

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city life

A year in the city

1996
A month-by-month description in pictures and words of what goes on in a city during the year.

Counting Jennie

1994
Jennie counts everything, including hats, lollipops, and teenagers, on her bus ride to school.

City sandwich

poems
1978
Twenty poems describing different aspects of city life from a child's point of view.

Our mutual friend

1964
John Harmon will inherit a fortune if he marries a girl whose personality has been affected by her wealth, and friends and events conspire to prove her true worth.

Love and longing in Bombay

stories
1997
A collection of five stories about quests driven by love and longing, as told by civil servant Subraminiam to his cronies at the Fisherman's Rest bar in modern-day Bombay.

The secret room

1992
When their family moves from a farm near Albany to New York City in 1903, Katharine and her brother must find ways to adjust to life in proper society.

My town

1999
Milly and Jack describe what their street is like.

Marco's monster

1996
Fourth-grader Marco has his hands full when his best friend is chosen to be star of the class play and his little sister is accused of killing a gerbil in her kindergarten class.

Nelly's grannies

1993
Nelly and Mike Dragon visit one grandmother in the country and their other grandmother in the city.

Can't sit still

1993
A child observes the changing sights and sounds of each new season in the city.

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