new york (n.y.)

"Discover what the Statue of Liberty symbolizes"--Provided by publisher.

After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, 10-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.

"Twelve year old Devlin Quick is determined to bring a thief to justice when someone steals a page out of a rare maps book in the New York Public Library"--.

New York City has become almost uninhabitable when continuous sunlight causes unbearable heat, rationing of water and electricity, and swarms of people leaving, looking for cooler weather further north.

Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island, until a traggic accident changes her fate.

"Strange things have been happening in New York City. Mysterious ectoplasm has been oozing down walls, haunted figures are bursting out of locked rooms, and-- rumor has it --a supernatural superfan wreaked havoc at a recent rock concert! Luckily, there's a group that's ready to take the lead and rid the city of its ghostly infestation--the Ghostbusters!"--Back cover.

On a visit to Coney Island, Rebecca gets the chance to use her acting skills to lighten the mood in an embarrassing situation, but a factory tour makes Rebecca believe her skills are needed there, too.

During a resurgence of hostilities between the Greens and the Grays, Roger and Caroline Whittier seek help from a NYPD detective and a former Ellis Island clerk to rescue Melantha Green, a twelve-year-old girl kidnapped from the peace coalition.

Contains sixteen critical commentaries of Nella Larsen's novel "Passing," that deals with the psychological issues of race and gender and includes reviews, textual notes, chronology, and introduction.

Two criminal investigators must uncover the motives behind a string of fires, which appear to be arson, but their search uncovers a murder and a plot to implicate an innocent person.