new york city

From business to history, entertainment to culture, each of these cities is deservingly celebrated as one of America's favorites-New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco.

The Ward is a futuristic New York City with streets filled with sea water and its poverty-stricken inhabitants suffering from a deadly disease called The Blight. Ren has discovered miraculous spring water that cures The Blight and when she is able to cure her sister, she faces more trouble when Governor Voss kidnaps Aven and an ancient order called the T?tai are determined to protect the healing water that the city needs to survive.

When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City's first African American policeman early in the twentieth century, he had to fear his racist colleagues as much as the criminals. His forty-year career with the New York City Police Department is both the story of one man's courageous battle for acceptance and also the story of the progress of racial diversity. Throughout his career, Samuel Battle mixed with the rich and famous and the rich and infamous but he never forgot who he was and the job that he was doing.

Fact-filled, and visually compelling, each title supplements New York State's standard for the social studies curriculum. Includes primary source documents, maps, manuscripts, written documents, journal entries, charters, paintings, and other artifacts.