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Kim, Hyo-eun

Summary: "A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIM

Summary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RAC

Tirado, Vincent

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: For over a year the Bronx has been plagued by unexplained disappearances. Raquel does her best to ignore it: after all, the police only look for the white kids. Then her crush Charlize's cousin goes missing-- and Raquel's mom comes down with a mysterious illness that seems linked to the disappearances. Raquel and Charlize discover that everything is tied to a terrifying urban legend called the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TIR

Summary: "Tells the story of how the longest, most sophisticated electric subway in the world was built"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEW

McKendry, Joe

Summary: Beckoning Readers to explore the territory beneath Boston's streets, Joe McKendry explores a century-old world when Beantown designed and created the country's first subway. In stunning artwork and through a fascinating and historically accurate narrative of Boston's first "Big Dig," you will enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand. Using pick and shovels to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design McKendry

Summary: Take a ride on a train, subways and buses as you watch this exciting video as you travel from the train yard to the highways. Watch these mighty machines as they chug along the rails doing their job. Includes bonus episodes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Seville Pictures 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIG

Summary: An autistic thirteen-year-old runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STA

Summary: Crisscrossing the gritty and majestic urban landscape of ₁70s Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan to a score of city noise, jazz, and gospel, Stations is an impressionistic portrait of and a tribute to a New York that has long since disappeared. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film captures the height of the graffiti movement, showcasing images of subway cars tagged by legends...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STA

Ryan, Phillip.

Summary: Simple text and pictures introduce the reader to subways.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKIDS Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 388.428 RYA

Stilton, Geronimo

Summary: When he hears reports of a ghost haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, Geronimo sets out to investigate the story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STI

Mercurio, Peter

Summary: "This gentle and incredibly poignant picture book tells the true story of how one baby found his home. "Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So beginsthe true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MER

Stilton, Geronimo

Summary: When he hears reports of a ghost haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, Geronimo sets out to investigate the story.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC STI

Reid, Barbara

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2005

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de la Peña, Matt

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH DE L

Summary: The Budapest subway system, the world's second oldest, is a dark, labyrinthine netherworld as vast and various as the city above it. The beleaguered ticket inspectors or 'controllers', assigned in teams to various sections of the system, have the thankless job to ensure that no passengers ride without paying. This is their story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Thinkfilm 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KON

Ryman, Geoff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYM

Tan, Sheri

Summary: Pablo invites his friends to go with him and his father to Coney Island to celebrate the end of summer, using his trusty maps to guide their way by bus and subway train.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TAN

Summary: New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's day is turned upside down when he must face-off against Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3. Ryder is the leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a henchman who used to work for the MTA. NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti initially takes charge of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Taking 2009

Evans, Walker

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 EVA

Fowler, Christopher.

Summary: After a Peculiar Crimes Unit detective is slain, the murderer flees deep underground into the world's oldest subway system, and Bryant and May must follow the madman into the twisted tunnels that snake beneath London.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Gaiman, Neil

Summary: Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he is plunged through the cracks of reality into a world of shadows and darkness—the Neverwhere. If he is ever to return to the London Above, Richard must join the battle to save this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAI

Gaiman, Neil.

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007

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Gaiman, Neil.

Summary: A man goes to the aide of a woman pursued by assassins and discovers an altermative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The sandman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAI

Summary: A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and breakdancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Art Films 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STY

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