Each turn of the page takes the reader back hundreds, thousands, and millions of years to provide descriptions of what modern-day New York City was like in earlier eras.
Follows students as they experience an anti-drug program involving activities such as watching nurses and doctors in action and attending a drug trial.
Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister.
Describes six-year-old Ernie Wong's preparations, at home and in school, for the Chinese New Year celebrations and his first public performance of the lion dance.
In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
