# Books about city and town life assigned in US schools

**3** books in the US-school assigned-reading canon explore _city and town life_. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** 2–12
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/theme/city-and-town-life
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## city and town life canon

- [Middlemarch](https://readinglist.school/book/middlemarch) by George Eliot _(Grades 11–12)_
- [Sweat](https://readinglist.school/book/sweat) by Lynn Nottage _(Grades 11–12)_
- [When Zachary Beaver Came to Town](https://readinglist.school/book/when-zachary-beaver-came-to-town) by Kimberly Willis Holt _(Grades 2–8)_

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