cities and towns

Asks readers to find Suzie the Sloth and other things in illustrated spreads of cities around the world.

Text and photographs introduce towns from around the world that are said to be haunted.

"Introduce your young readers to the environmental issues that come with the rise of the large and busy communities of the city landscape. After learning about problems like overcrowding, sewage, and pollution from factories and transportation, students are encouraged through Solve It! activities to come up with sustainable solutions for the future"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations look at people and things in a city.

"In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Yusra must choose between asking for help rebuilding her neighborhood park or ignoring the problem. Readers make choices for Yusraand read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions"--Publisher.

"It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is being pursued at that moment by a strange hook-handed man. And the town legend of the Malamander - a part-fish, part-human monster whose egg is said to make dreams come true - is rearing its scaly head. As various townspeople, some good-hearted, some nefarious, reveal themselves to be monster hunters on the sly, can Herbert and Violet elude them and discover what happened to Violet's kin?" -- Amazon.

Features more than 100 fascinating cities. Each entry has a factfile with bite-sized facts, measurements, statistics and a clear color photograph of the city.

Panic mounts in the sleepy little town of Aurelius, New York, after three young girls vanish, one after another, and soon it seems that no one is immune from suspicion.

Explores the hazards to the environment and the coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay as a result of contaminated runoffs from industry, agriculture, and urban development in the region.

Kadie Andrews finds herself trapped in the town of Morgan Creek, where she catches the attention of vampire Rylan Saintcrow.