Contains species accounts of 451 birds on the official New York State checklist, providing information in the categories of range, status, occurrence, and breeding and nonbreeding behaviors, and includes maps and illustrations.
Describes the history, environment, beliefs of the Native Peoples of New York state, as well as the organization of the Iroquois Confederacy; and profiles some famous individuals, such as Joseph Brant and Handsome Lake.
In 1817, after her mother has died and her father abandoned his children, thirteen-year-old Mem searches for a new home for Joshua, herself, and their little sister.
Twelve-year-old Mem's new life in the wilderness of western New York becomes even more difficult in the cold summer of 1816 when her mother fails to recover from the birth of a new baby.
Fifteen-year-old aspiring writer Cammie Bliss of Lakewood, New York, tries to shed her reputation of being a stalker when a new boy, Toby, comes to town, but learning how to truly relate to others proves to be a challenge.
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
