All 11 Uses
Amsterdam
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When You Reach Me
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- I had left my keys at school and waited two and a half hours at Belle's Market on Amsterdam Avenue for Mom to get home from work.†
p. 7.4 *Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands
- A few kids called him Quack, short for Quackers, or they called him Kicker because he used to do these sudden kicks into the street, like he was trying to punt one of the cars speeding up Amsterdam Avenue.†
p. 16.5
- She had picked up some carpet samples at a store on Amsterdam Avenue and written the kids' names on the backs.†
p. 17.6
- It happened in the fall, when Sal and I still walked home from school together every single day: one block from West End Avenue to Broadway, one block from Broadway to Amsterdam, past the laughing man on our corner, and then half a block to our lobby door.†
p. 21.2
- That middle block between Broadway and Amsterdam is mostly a huge garage, where the sidewalk is all slanted, and we had to be careful when it was icy or else we'd slip right in front of the pack of boys always hanging out there.†
p. 21.3
- I glanced over at Belle's Market on Amsterdam, but no one was out front.†
p. 23.1
- We started toward Amsterdam.†
p. 64.8
- When I walked by him a minute later, the laughing man was shaking his fist at the sky and kicking his legs out into the traffic rushing up Amsterdam Avenue.†
p. 151.4
- Traffic was flying by on Amsterdam Avenue.†
p. 159.1
- And when I asked him why he wasn't at our regular spot after school, he'd just mumbled something and looked at his feet, and then we'd walked toward Amsterdam in total silence.†
p. 169.1
- We walk to Amsterdam, past the garage, where the boys still say stuff to us and we ignore them.†
p. 196.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(Amsterdam) largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)