new york (state)

On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.

Sof?a Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.

"Readers will explore the location and meaning of the Statue of Liberty, the . . . copper statue that stands tall on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. This . . . book uses color images and . . . text to introduce Lady Liberty, and it also explains why she is recognized as such an important symbol of freedom in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

This title examines Ground Zero from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the cleanup of the debris of the Word Trade Center to the construction of the Freedom Tower, the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and the continued rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex's buildings. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Archival photographs and text describe the history of amusement parks in Western New York.

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly's account of the shocking conditions she experienced as an undercover reporter in the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in 1887.

This biography of Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, examines how she played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South.

Personal shopper Becky Bloomwood's life reaches the peak of perfection when her entrepreneurial boyfriend Luke proposes, but the couple sees trouble looming on the horizon when both their mothers try to seize control of the wedding plans.

"his updated guidebook features seventy-five of the best trails the Empire State has to offer--from the 4,000-foot peaks of the Adirondacks and the lore of Rip Van Winkle's Catskills, to the glacier-gouged landscape of the Finger Lakes region. Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs and descriptions, trailhead location and GPS coordinates, mile-by-mile directional cues, gorgeous full-color photography, and a detailed map"--.