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Jimmy the greatest!
Inspired by Muhammad Ali, Jimmy starts training to become a boxer, and while his future looks bright, he decides leaving his small town for big matches might not be the best option for him.
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Hard facts : setting and form in the American novel
American culture has often been described in terms of paradigmatic images--the wilderness, the Jeffersonian landscape of family farms, the great industrial cities at the turn of the 19th century. But underlying these cultural ideals are less happy paradoxes.
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The boy who didn't believe in spring
Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they've heard is \"just around the corner.\"
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The escape of Marvin the ape
Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.
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Matthew and Tilly
Like all good friends, Matthew and Tilly have an occasional tiff, but their friendship prevails despite their differences.
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Doug unplugged
Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
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Young Fu of the upper Yangtze
In the 1920's, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
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Tokyo digs a garden
Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around the family's house where once there were hills and trees. Will they ever experience the natural world again? One day, an old woman offers Tokyo seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes. Tokyo and his grandfather are astonished when the seeds grow into a forest so lush that it takes over the entire city overnight. Soon the whole city has gone wild, with animals roaming where cars once drove. But is this a problem to be surmounted, or a new way of living to be embraced? -- Provided by publisher.
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