new york (state)

In New York, fourteen-year-old Matt spends the summer of 1973 digging clams to earn money for his own boat and falling for Jazzy, a beautiful and talented girl from Hawaii who happens to be his first cousin.

Chronicles the early history of New York, covering its Native American peoples and explorers, life in the first settlements, conflicts between colonists and Native Americans, the building tensions between the colonies and England, the Revolutionary War, and the creation and ratification of the federal constitution.

An introduction to New York that provides information on the state's earliest settlers, history, geography, famous residents, cities, celebrations, and population.

An illustrated adaptation of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

In 1938, thirteen-year-old Louise Bloom tries to figure out what caused her mother to leave her, her three brothers, their father, and the lighthouse on the Hudson River that they call home.

Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of New Jersey and New York. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other relevant material.

Text and more than 750 illustrations survey the history of New York State from Indian times to the present.

In 1800, shortly before his twelfth birthday, Richard is sent to live with his uncle on a farm in upper New York State, where he teaches a young slave to read and encourages her to dream of freedom.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.