"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. This is the devastating premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel The man who lived underground, written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) at the height of his creative powers."--...

Sewers might be a gross subject to study, but they also offer the perfect chance to comprehend important STEM skills and topics. Readers are sure to enjoy learning about sewers throughout the centuries-from the systems of the ancient Roman Empire to those in our very own neighborhoods. This volume addresses important scientists, engineers, and inventors who have made the unsavory job of removing waste from our lives a reality. Diagrams and photographs...

A high society pet mouse is flushed down the toilet and must learn to adapt to life in the sewers of London; when a flying circus chicken lands in an egg farm, the egg farm chickens have great hopes that he can teach them all to fly, in order to escape; with the annual vegetable growing contest close at hand, Wallace and Gromit must solve the mystery of a garden pest that is sabotaging people's gardens.

Isaac and James discover the cause and effect relationship between our cities storm drains and the world's oceans, lakes, and rivers.