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1) Neverwhere
Author
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Underground railways, or subways, are an engineering marvel. But why were they built? How? Here is a high-speed tour of early subways from London to New York City to answer those questions and more.
4) Metropia
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"...takes place in a terrifying but not-so-distant Europe of the future. The world is running out of oil and the underground train systems have been connected, creating a gigantic network beneath Europe. In a suburb of Stockholm, Roger tries to stay away from the underground because every time he enters, he hears a stranger's voice in his head. Is someone trying to control him? To help him escape the disturbing web of the Metro, he looks to the...
6) Subway
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her mother enjoy a ride uptown on a city subway.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories of a beautiful but dangerous place called Tunnel's End, a mouse named Nib leaves his dirty, crowded home under a busy subway station and sets out on a long journey, joined by Lola, a mouse he meets along the way.
8) Super tunnel
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follow an army of engineers and designers as they tackle the complex challenge of building Crossrail, a massive new subterranean railway deep beneath the streets of London.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly original debut from an incredible new voice. For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. Sixteen-year-old Raquel does her best to ignore it. After all, the police only look for the white kids. But when her crush...
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 13
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he hears reports of a ghost haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, Geronimo sets out to investigate the story.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller, featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to Nizhny Novgorod. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Celebrating the diversity of navigation across the planet, Mark Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit -- including rare and historic maps,...
12) Ravenous things
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Climb aboard the midnight train! Things wondrous and terrible await you... Twelve-year-old Reggie Wong has a quick temper that’s always getting him into trouble at school, while at home his mom struggles to get out of bed--let alone leave their apartment. That’s why Reggie desperately needs his dad back. One problem: His dad is dead. Enter the Conductor, a peculiar man who promises to make Reggie’s wish to see his father just one more time...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhythmic text describe the sights and sounds of a subway ride in New York City as a mother and child go uptown, counting their way from one to ten and back again.
15) Out the door
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again in this inviting book that teaches directional concepts like over, under, and through. Out the door, down the stoop, past the neighbors, along the block ... Through tree-lined streets, onto a crowded subway car, into the classroom with friends, and finally, retracing her steps back home again. There's so much to see in Christy Hale's warm, richly textured collage...
16) Baptism
Author
Series
Ed Mallory novels volume 1
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blinded by a grenade blast early in his career, hostage crisis negotiator Ed Mallory uses his acute sense of hearing and penetrating insights into the criminal mind during a showdown with a religious psychopath in the subway tunnels beneath London.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
19) Downsiders
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Beneath the sewer grates and manholes of the city lies a strange and secret world called the Downside. Every Downsider knows that it's forbidden to go Topside, and most fear a collision of the two worlds. But fourteen-year-old Talon is curious about what goes on above ground, and one day he ventures out in search of medicine for his ailing sister. There he meets Lindsay, who is as curious about Talon's world as he is about hers. When Lindsay visits...
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