new york (state)

Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life.

In this fictionalized biography, a teenage Maggie Higgins struggles to balance her responsibilities to her family, society's expectations for women, and her desire to pursue her education and plan for the future.

"Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer"--Publisher.

Explores the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first female doctor.

Andy does not look forward to spending a summer in West Carthage, New York, but as he does chores for his grandmother and her eccentric neighbor and connects with his mother's childhood friend, John, he begins to accept that faith will help him deal with the changes that life brings, starting with his father's recent death.

A look back at events and the changing of the seasons at a one-room school in rural New York during the last year of the Second World War.

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

Looks at the customs, family life, history, government, culture, and daily life of the Iroquois nations of New York and Ontario.

As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon named Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.