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Fully charged

When an accident at Oscorp turns Max Dillon into the supervillain Electro, Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, must find a way to stop him.
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You wouldn't want to be a skyscraper builder!

a hazardous job you'd rather not take
Provides an account of what it was like to be employed during the Great Depression helping construct the Empire State Building in New York City, and discusses the hazards of the job.
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Backtracked

While playing a dangerous subway prank, a fifteen-year-old slacker, who lives a comfortable life in Brooklyn, falls through a time-travel vortex and is transported to different time periods in twentieth-century New York City, where he learns firsthand about hardship.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

Tells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company from the strike to the fire that forever changed Labor laws and safety regulation in American business.
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Starring Jules (in drama-rama)

Jules, excited and nervous about her part in a sitcom pilot, is also concerned about her class moving up ceremony and her touchy relationships with ex-best friend Charlotte and new best friend Elinor--it is almost too much drama for one seven-year-old New Yorker to handle.
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The Statue of Liberty

Presents a discussion of the Statue of Liberty, covering its importance as a symbol and how it was built and presented as a gift from France, and includes photographs.
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Stacey's mistake

Stacey has invited her friends from the Baby-sitters Club to New York City for the weekend.
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The pushcart war

The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the world.
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Safe at home

Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.
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Be bop-a-do-walk!

On a walk to Central Park a Japanese-American child's father folds paper hats and boats to sail on the pond and then paper cranes to fly on their bus ride home.
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