Fiction, Reading Recovery Level 12, F&P Level G, DRA2 Level 12, Theme Pt. of View, Stage Early, Character N/A
Part memoir and part study of modern life, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall and the place it holds in our shared cultural history.
Are shopping malls a sign of the region’s “coming of age”? El Mall is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption are shaping the conversation about class and social inequality in Latin America.
Trying to escape retribution for defying a vicious city gang, Barnie and Teresa seek refuge in a suburban shopping mall and uncover a society of hostile teenage runaways who consider the mall their exclusive territory.
The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla Katherine Applegate. won the Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan, a novel inspired by the events in this book. She has written many books for children, including Home of the ...
Two eighth-grade loners decide to take up residence in a department store. Little do they know that theirs is not an original idea.
As this work shows, the mall remains rich in symbolic influence, and in many ways mirrors the American condition.
Shopping Mall Math
In Mall Maker, the first biography of this visionary spirit, M. Jeffrey Hardwick relates Gruen's successes and failures—his work at the 1939 World's Fair, his makeover of New York's Fifth Avenue boutiques, his rejected plans for reworking ...
Richly illustrated with archival photographs of the nation's beloved downtown business centers, From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.
This fantastic book decodes and graphically depicts an environment both apart and ubiquitous, a convulsive form of public space in a liquid territory where intensely contested politics, commerce, and sociability weirdly merge in a city like ...