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Raschka, Christopher.
NEW YORK IS ENGLISH, CHATTANOOGA IS CREEK
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.
IL K-3
ISBN 0689846002
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New York is English, Chattanooga is Creek.  What do you think this title refers to?  Christopher Raschka has taken the names of some of the most well known US cites and given us the name's origin.  He shows us how a thousand names, a hundred languages and a million, and a million, and a million people came together to form one nation.
SUBJECTS:     Cities and towns -- Fiction.
                        Names, Geographical -- Fiction.
                        Individuality -- Fiction.
                        Parties -- Fiction.

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