Presents a gallery of images, including fine and folk art, architecture, crafts, and photographs, that capture the spirit of New York; and features text that describes the history, geography, people, politics, culture, and attractions of the state.
While visiting her aunt and cousin near Fort Ticonderoga, on the western shore of Lake Champlain, Faith Carew learns a secret about the fort that concerns Ethan Allen's "Green Mountain boys.".
A graphic novel adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the story of Ichabod Crane, an irritating schoolteacher who falls prey to his own superstitious belief in a terrifying headless horseman.
A brief biography of Peter Stuyvesant, who became the last Director-General of New Netherland between 1647 and 1664 when New Amsterdam was captured by the British.
Amanda Bahringer, a bright, impressionable student at a prestigious boarding school, struggles to measure up to everyone's demands, from her mother to her instructors, as she tries to gain the credentials needed for admission to Dartmouth.
John Reddy Heart, a young man who, since rolling into town behind the wheel of a salmon-colored Cadillac at the age of eleven, has stolen the hearts of Willowsville's teenage girls, earned the worship of its boys, and the envy of its men, attains the status of a myth when he becomes the object of a statewide manhunt.
During a yellow fever epidemic in 1803, Esther and Archibald Gracie move their family from Manhattan to their country home, where the children search for an underground passageway and a mysterious visitor to the mansion that would later be home to the mayors of New York City.
Provides a comprehensive look at New York state history, from the Algonquin and Iroquois who lived there before the arrival of Europeans to the beginning of the new millennium.
