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Examines the true story of New York City's Twin Towers, how they came to be built, how they changed the New York skyline, and how they came to be destroyed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.

Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.

A Brazilian cricket named Zaz travels from her homeland to the Swing Cafe? jazz club in Manhattan where she delivers a performance of a lifetime. Includes a CD with classic recordings by jazz legends mentioned in the story.

When Pura Belpre came to America in 1921, she carried with her a passion for her homeland's folktales. She became a New York City librarian renowned for her story hours---and continued to share Puerto Rican folktales across the United States by turning them into books.

Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African-Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

Two days after arriving in New York from Puerto Rico, eight-year-old Juanito, who speaks no English, loses his dog and searches for it all over the city making new friends along the way.

An account of the deadly industrial fire which led to the adoption of laws and regulations concerning industrial safety in the United States.

Claude leaves his family's Oklahoma ranch for New York, gets involved with the hippie subculture of the city, and is drafted for the Vietnam War.

A girl attending public high school for the first time, finds herself amongst the brutality of her peers.

A comedy centering on the relationship between Annie Hall and comedian Arvy Singer as they go about their lives in New York City.