Parks


Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
Swamplandia!
Another One Bites the Dust (Jaz Parks, #2)
Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)
Water in the Park: A Book About Water and the Times of the Day
Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks, #4)
A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
Where's Rodney?
Daniel Finds a Poem
Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8)
High Country (Anna Pigeon, #12)
Biting the Bullet (Jaz Parks, #3)
National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks
How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True by Sarah StrohmeyerThe Truth About Happily Ever After by Karole CozzoHot Dog Girl by Jennifer DuganPast Perfect by Leila SalesDream Factory by Brad  Barkley
YA Books set in Amusement Parks
52 books — 23 voters
A Walk In The Park by Anthony BrowneVoices in the Park by Anthony BrowneA Green Place to Be by Ashley Benham-YazdaniWhen the Whippoorwill Calls by Candice RansomStimmy of het oerwoud in de stad by Daan Remmerts de Vries
Parks in Picture Books
50 books — 4 voters

Seattle Stairway Walks by Jake JaramilloThe Creaky Knees Guide Washington by Seabury Blair Jr.Day & Section Hikes Pacific Crest Trail by Adrienne SchaeferSeattle Walks by David B. WilliamsCity Walks by Ingrid Emerick
Seattle Guidebooks
6 books — 1 voter
Meet Me at Wonderland by Julia DeVillersLove at First Knight by Megan ClawsonBig Wild Summer by Stephanie J. ScottWe Could Be Magic by Marissa MeyerGradchanted by Morgan Matson
Amusement Park Romances
6 books — 1 voter

Rebecca Solnit
As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters' of the 1850s to the 'tramps' of the 1870s and 1890s to the Hooverville residents of the 1930s--have always turned to the park land for shelter...The growing visibility of homeless people in Central Park osed in the starkest terms the contradiction ...more
Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Kristian Ventura
It wasn’t only benches, Charlie found, that bore names on them. There were rocks with names, buildings with names, parks with names, streets with names, even tables with names. Charlie thought it was a wildly large ask for a man to expect people to know who he was after he’d left. It’s too hard to compete with the excited men today who want to be remembered tomorrow. But no one could ever live that long. We don’t remember Lincoln every hour, or Jackie Robinson every meal. Charlie supposed the on ...more
Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

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