new york (state)

Text and illustrations introduce the history and culture of the Iroquois people.

When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.

Presents a description of longhouses of the Iroquois, Native Americans of the northeast United States, and includes a short history of the Iroquois nation, their settlements, culture, clans, arts and crafts, trade and warfare, and religious beliefs as well as the influence of European colonists.

When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.

A brief biography of the Dutchman who arrived to be governor of New Amsterdam in 1647 and turned it from a muddy village into a well-organized city.

"Robbie and friends, using a magical charm, protect a Canarsee Indian burial ground from urban developers"--Publisher.

After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.

Illustrations and easy-to-follow text profiles the establishment of the Dutch colonial settlements of New Netherland, and describes the early settler's interactions with the Native Americans, the establishment of New Amsterdam, William Keift, and other related topics.

Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.

During his lonely crusade to remove offensive mascots from his high school, a Native American teenager learns more about his heritage, his ancestors, and his place in the world.