new york (state)

Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of New York. Also includes a state chronology, pertinent statistics, and maps.

Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.

During the summer vacations of his thirteenth through his sixteenth year at the family's lake cottage, Luke realizes that although some things stay the same over the years, many more change.

An autobiography of New York governor George Pataki in which he shares stories of his childhood in a close, loving family, discusses his stunning victory in the 1994 gubernatorial election, and tells what it takes to run the State of New York.

A chance encounter with General George Washington in upstate New York during the Revolutionary War leads a young woman to volunteer for a dangerous mission involving the retrieval of valuable papers.

While walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan on a rainy morning in 1871, Martin Pemberton sees in a horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.

When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.