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America's colonization and settlement

By Lüsted, Marcia Amidon
2011., Juvenile, Cherry Lake Pub. Call No: 973.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Language arts explorer. History digsSummary Note: An introduction to America's colonization and settlement, describing what it was like to be one of the first settlers in Smithtown or Jamestown, how the towns were governed, what trades were practiced, how people dressed, played, socialized, and prayed, and where the original settlers came from.

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Bat 6

By Wolff, Virginia Euwer
1998., Scholastic Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC WOLFF Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

City trains : moving through America's cities by rail

By Yepsen, Roger B
c1993., Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: 388.4 2 0973 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated history of the various types of public transportation used in cities including horsecars, streetcars, trolleys, interurbans, cable cars, subways, light rails, and monorails.

Desert town

By Geisert, Bonnie Geisert, Arthur
2001., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 307.76 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes what life is like in a typical small U.S. town located in a desert.

Early American villages

By Bial, Raymond
2004., Juvenile, Children's Press/Scholastic Call No: 973.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American communitySummary Note: This book discusses the early American villages of the 1600s and 1700s, describing the early sawmills, gristmills, meetinghouses, and cabins or clapboard houses and the two-story frame houses that came later.

Early city life

By Kalman, Bobbie, 1947-
1994, Juvenile, Crabtree Pub. Co Call No: 307.76 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Early settler life series

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city

By Desmond, Matthew
[2016], Crown Publishers Call No: 339.46 Des Des Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Highlights eight families in Milwaukee who are living in the poorest neighborhoods just barely getting by. Examines the eviction of families from their homes, and provides ideas for changing this increasingly common course in America.

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city

By Desmond, Matthew
Ã2016., Crown Publishers Call No: 339.4 DES Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the fates of eight families struggling to pay their rent in the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, discussing the human cost of America's vast inequality.

A farming town

By Roop, Peter Roop, Connie
c1999., Primary, Heinemann Library Call No: 307.72 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Walk aroundSummary Note: Uses Wilton, North Dakota, as an example to introduce farm towns through distinguishing characteristics such as their homes, schools, stores, means of transportation, and places of employment.

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The growth of the American city : immigrants and migrants travel for work

By Flores, Mina
c2016., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 307.76 0973 Click here to access this interactive ebook Summary Note: "The United States' cities would be nothing today were it not for the contributions of migrants and immigrants during the American Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. This text, which was written to support elementary social studies curricula, examines the growth of U.S. cities. New York City, Boston, Chicago, and other major cities grew exponentially as factories created job opportunities for people in search of a better life. Readers can identify push/pull factors of the immigration that occurred during the Industrial Revolution and how they shaped the United States' unique urban identity. Historical photographs and primary sources complete a comprehensive learning experience"--Provided by the publisher.

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Home town

By Kidder, Tracy
c1999., Random House Call No: 974.4 KID Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Sample text More... Summary Note: A disparate group of individuals finds a common cause and a code of values that transforms their small Massachusetts town into a home.

Humans of New York

By Stanton, Brandon
2013., St. Martin's Press Call No: PHOTOGRAPHY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collects four hundred of photographer Brandon Stanton's portraits of people in New York City.