Provides photographs and descriptions of 120 species of birds that live in New York, each with information on physical characteristics, migration, and food preferences, as well as notes by the author; grouped by color, with range maps.
Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
Dramatizes the story of Mary Mallon, a seemingly healthy Irish immigrant cook who became known as Typhoid Mary after being identified as the source of an outbreak of typhoid fever in New York in 1906, and who was subsequently banished to a quarantine island off Manhattan against her will.
Describes the events and immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, in which planes were crashed into the Twin Towers buildings in New York City as well as into the Pentagon building near Washington, D.C.
Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Presents biographies of six African Americans prominent in the arts and business worlds during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance--Bessie Smith, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, A'lelia Walker, Augusta Fells Savage, and Arturo A. Schomburg.
Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.
