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Just after his best friends make a list of things sixteen-year-old Ted should do to live it up, he learns that he has ingested poison and will be dead in twenty-four hours--which might be enough time to do everything on the list.

Presents personal reflections, short stories, and poems on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by 110 New York authors.

Follows a teacher and her class as they visit New York City.

Various scenes in New York City are used to illustrate the numbers from one to twenty.

Readers will aspire to see the Empire State Building this architectural wonder in person.

A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother's blood can know, that her grown son is in danger.

Family, school, and life in general are seen through the writings of four fifth graders who have been taken out of an overcrowded New York City classroom and placed with a teacher who shows them how to write and how to believe in themselves.

A collection of Spider-Man stories adapted for younger readers and designed to be read in five minutes or less.

A collection of Spider-Man stories adapted for younger readers and designed to be read in five minutes or less.

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

Reconciled with her friends and enjoying life with her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Mimi hopes for a happier second term at the progressive Baldwin School but soon finds herself drawn into complications involving the school's finances, her father's new girlfriend, and her own romantic entanglements.

Sixteen-year-old Maude, an orphan who was raised in a foster home, finds her world changed when she meets an American music producer who takes her to New York to produce an album.

Chronicles the history of Haiti and the efforts of one Haitian family to emigrate to the United States and rebuild their lives in Brooklyn, N.

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.