new york (state)

"An obese former academic shut-in and a poor kid dreaming of a successful baseball career are linked together by a former student who transforms their lives"--Provided by publisher.

Solomon Kugel has moved to Stockton, New York, to find a quiet life but farms similar to his new home are being burned and he finds an elderly Anne Frank hiding in his attic.

The holiday season brings surprises for all, and while a group of students put a naughty twist Brett Messerschmidt's plans for the annual holiday ball at Waverly Academy, Tinsley Carmichael discovers an unsettling secret about her new boyfriend's past.

Samantha Owens decides to leave her boarding school to finish school in New York City where she is reunited with Riley and introduced to her glamorous lifestyle, but Sam causes a riff in their friendship when she develops a crush on the boy who broke Riley's heart.

Sixteen-year-old Riley Swain, pushed into spending spring break at an upstate New York camp for overweight teens by her father's fiancee, is happy with her weight but finds she has a lot to learn about friendship and love.

Presents a biography of Gouverneur Morris, the American patriot credited with writing the Preamble, as well as the final draft of the Constitution, discussing his achievements in politics and in social and domestic life.

Ruth Kluger chronicles the experiences she had while growing up in Vienna during the Nazi occupation and explains how the time she spent in concentration camps impacted her life.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.

A collection of fifteen historical short fiction stories about American patriots, including Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold, Timothy Murphy, and others.