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The empty lot / by Fife, Dale.(CARDINAL)141353; Arnosky, Jim,illustrator.(CARDINAL)140335;
610L
Subjects: Fiction.; Nature stories;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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From empty lot to building / by Greve, Meg.(CARDINAL)490474;
Includes bibliographical references (page 24) and index.Library Media Connection, February 2016Describes how an empty lot becomes a building through the work of a construction crew.2.8.K-3Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Construction industry; Buildings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A natural history of empty lots : field notes from urban edgelands, back alleys, and other wild places / by Brown, Christopher,1964-author.(CARDINAL)396901;
Part One: Finding the wild city. 1. Empty Lots, Mesquites, and Parakeets -- 2. A Wilderness of Edges -- 3. Where the Wild Things Are -- 4. Transecologies -- Part Two: Rewilding domestic life. 5. Making Camp -- 6. Making a Green House in the Brown Lands -- 7. How to Live in a Feral House -- 8. Living in the Wild City -- Part Three: Rewilding the future. 9. Blood in the Land -- 10. Breaking the Haze -- 11. Wild in the Streets -- 12. Black Witches and Other Omens-A Coda."A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect. During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property--abandoned and full of litter and debris--was an unlikely site for a home. Brown had become fascinated with these empty lots around Austin, so-called "ruined" spaces once used for agriculture and industry awaiting their redevelopment. He discovered them to be teeming with natural activity, and embarked on a twenty-year project to live in and document such spaces. There, in our most damaged landscapes, he witnessed the remarkable resilience of wild nature, and how we can heal ourselves by healing the Earth. Beautifully written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots offers a new lens on human disruption and nature, offering a sense of hope among the edgelands."--Publisher.
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Biotic communities.; Habitat (Ecology); Urban ecology (Biology); Urban ecology (Sociology); Natural history;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Book club kit: seedfolks / by Fleischman, Paul.1952-; Pederson, Judy;
A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden, especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: To Curtis, who believes he can win back Lateesha's heart with a harvest of tomatoes; to Virgil's dad, who sees a fortune to be made from growing lettuce; and even to Maricela, sixteen and pregnant, wishing she were dead. Thirteen very different voices and perspectives--old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful--tell one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Gardens; City and town life; Neighborhoods; Empty lots; Multiethnic neighborhoods;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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City green / by DiSalvo, DyAnne,author.(CARDINAL)515986;
Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; City and town life; City and town life; Community gardens; Community gardens; Gardens; Gardens;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15
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The black man in Brazilian soccer / by Rodrigues, Mário,1908-1966,Author(DLC)n 87143228 ; Draper, Jack A.,III,1976-Translator(DLC)no2005109041;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-347).Nostalgic beginnings -- The grass field and the empty lot -- The rebellion of the black man -- The social ascension of the black man -- The trial of the black man -- The black man's turn."Lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filho's chronicle of 'the beautiful game' is a classic of Brazilian sports writing. Filho (1908-1966) was a prize-winning Brazilian journalist--Rio's Maracana stadium is officially named after him-- [who] reported on Brazilian soccer as a boundary-busting story of race relations, democracy, popular culture, and national identity. Now in English for the first time, the book highlights national debates about the inclusion of African-descended people in the body politic and situates early black soccer stars as key creators of Brazilian culture"--.
Subjects: Soccer; Soccer; Athletes, Black; Discrimination in sports;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lot at the end of my block / by Lewis, Kevin.; Cartwright, Reg,illustrator.;
A cumulative story about the construction of a building, beginning with an empty lot at the end of the block and ending with a new house and neighbors.
Subjects: Fiction.; Building; Construction equipment; Stories in rhyme; Stories in rhyme;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Old Manhattan has some farms : (e-i-e-i-grow!) / by Lendroth, Susan,author.(CARDINAL)353040; Endle, Kate,illustrator.(CARDINAL)671507;
In this new take on "Old MacDonald," farmers are city dwellers and farms consist of rooftops, empty lots, patios, hydroponic labs, and other urban nooks.AD470LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Gardening; Urban gardening;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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Building friends / by Kidd, Ronald.(CARDINAL)719340; Hu, Ying-Hwa,illustrator.(CARDINAL)343900; Van Wright, Cornelius,illustrator.(CARDINAL)774987;
While watching the Habitat for Humanity volunteers build a house in the empty lot next to her house, Rosa and her new friend Matthew decide to fix up Rosa's tree house.
Subjects: Fiction.; Habitat for Humanity International, Inc.; Habitat for Humanity, inc.; Habitat for Humanity, inc.; Building; Cooperativeness; Friendship; House construction; Housing.; Tree houses; Friendships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Uncle John's city garden / by Ford, Bernette G.,author.(CARDINAL)434776; Morrison, Frank,1971-illustrator.(CARDINAL)343085;
While visiting her uncle John in the city for the summer, an African American girl, L'il Sissy, her siblings, and uncle transform an empty lot into a vegetable garden. Includes recipe for succotash.Grades K-1.Ages 4-8.
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; African Americans; City and town life; Gardening; Gardens;
Available copies: 29 / Total copies: 32
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