new york (state)

Manhattanites Matisse Osgood and her artist parents move to upstate New York when her father's Parkinson's disease worsens, and Matisse must face high school in a small, provincial town as she tries to avoid thinking about her father's future.

Describes the life of Gouverneur Morris, who edited the final version of the United States Constitution, served as minister to France, and was instrumental in the establishment of our national coinage system and in the planning of the Erie Canal.

Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.

An illustrated children's version of the journal of a young Dutch trader, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois Indians, a Mohawk tribe that controlled the trade routes in the area, in 1634, seeking to bolster the Dutch trade in what is now New York State.

Tom Gray, a Mohawk Indian and star soccer player, moves to a new high school and refuses to play for the Warriors with their insulting mascot.

Profiles the artistic works of eighteenth-century French artist Paul Gauguin.

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.

Provides an overview of New York's early explorers, discussing the impact they had on the state's settlement and expansion, their interactions with the region's Native American tribes, the most influential explorers, and other related topics.

Text and illustrations chronicle the life of controversial eighteenth-century American printer John Peter Zenger, whose trial for libel and sedition paved the way for freedom of the press.