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1) Potatoes on rooftops: farming in the city

Author

Dyer, Hadley

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Explains how farming in the city is important for the planet and describes how to grow food with modern inventions or grow food in old buckets on a balcony.

2) In a backyard

Author

Green, Jen

Series

Small worlds (Crabtree)

Publisher

Crabtree Pub. Co

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

Description

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Describes the various animals that live in and around the backyard and garden of a house in North America.

3) Urban roosts: where birds nest in the city

Author

Bash, Barbara

Publisher

Sierra Club Books

Pub. Date

c1990

Language

English

Description

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Describes the birds that make their homes in the heart of the city and examines how they have adjusted to such a harsh urban environment.

4) Wild animal neighbors: sharing our urban world

Author

Downer, Ann

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

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Discusses humans and animals sharing land and what can be done to benefit the animals that are being pushed out of their natural habitats due to people building over their land.

5) The great migration: an American story

Author

Lawrence, Jacob

Publisher

Museum of Modern Art

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

Description

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A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.

6) Like Vanessa

Author

Charles, Tami

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

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It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. But the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.

7) Buried beneath us: discovering the ancient cities of the Americas

Author

Aveni, Anthony F

Publisher

Roaring Brook Press

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Description

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In this book you will learn how cities grew into booming cities and then crumbled into ruins and no longer exist.

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1) Potatoes on rooftops: farming in the city

2) In a backyard

3) Urban roosts: where birds nest in the city

4) Wild animal neighbors: sharing our urban world

5) The great migration: an American story

6) Like Vanessa

7) Buried beneath us: discovering the ancient cities of the Americas

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