From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 351
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: runaways, brothers and sisters, runaway children, siblings, newbery medal books, newbery medal, large type books, metropolitan museum of art, self-reliance, museums, new york (n.y.) [X], children's audiobooks, missing persons, runaways - fiction, chinese language, metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), domestic fiction
Chains
When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where she is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 225
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: slavery, african americans, spies, new york (n.y.) [X], united states, historical fiction, spy stories, large print books, spy stories, historical fiction, large type books, large type books
When You Reach Me
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 224
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
The Attacks Of September 11, 2001
Lucas has to tell his dad's friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star, that his parents do not want him playing football anymore, and he takes the train into New York City to talk to Benny, but everything changes when the Twin Towers are attacked.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 209
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: september 11 terrorist attacks, 2001, terrorism, adventure fiction, historical fiction, new york (n.y.) [X], adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, historical fiction
Wonderstruck
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 154
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
Blizzard Of The Blue Moon
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue a magical unicorn from New York City.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 152
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: time travel, magic, unicorns, depressions, tree houses, new york (n.y.) [X], brothers and sisters
The Cricket In Times Square
"A musical cricket and his friends, a mouse and a cat of real character, take up their abode in a Times Square newsstand.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 128
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: crickets, mice, cats, new york (n.y.) [X], new york, children's audiobooks, newbery medal, times square (new york, n.y.), newbery honor 1961, newbery medal books
The Seer Of Shadows
Photographer Horace Carpetine is commissioned to do a portrait for society matron Mrs.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 119
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: photography, swindlers and swindling, revenge, ghosts, new york (n.y.) [X], ghost stories, horror stories
Land Of Hope
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 117
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: emigration and immigration, jews, historical fiction, immigration and emigration, new york (n.y.) [X]
The Catcher In The Rye
Story of an alienated, disillusioned youth who drops out of school, and spends three days and nights in New York City on a quest for self-discovery.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 109
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: adolescence, new york (n.y.) [X], caulfield, holden (fictitious character), caulfield, holden (fictional character), runaway teenagers, chinese language
Absolutely Almost
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny, Calista, helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 107
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: self-esteem, ability, babysitters, family life, school stories, new york (n.y.) [X], school, schools, racially mixed people
City Of Bones
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 102
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: demonology, supernatural, fantasy, horror stories, bosch, harry (fictitious character), police, children, bosch, harry (fictional character), los angeles (calif.), magic, new york (n.y.) [X], young adult fiction, horror fiction, paranormal fiction, fantasy fiction, large type books, large print books, horror fiction, horror tales, paranormal fiction
Hurry Up, Houdini!
Sent back in time to locate Harry Houdini, Jack and Annie end up getting into an argument that threatens their mission.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 101
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
The Jaguar's Jewel
Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 99
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
subjects: museums, stealing, duncan, dink (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories, new york (n.y.) [X], mystery fiction, gems
Lost And Found
Contains seven stories of some of history's most baffling cases of lost and found, including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and the discovery of the HMS "Beagle, " each with a time line, definitions of key words, and related facts.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 96
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: twins, brothers, identity (philosophical concept), individuality, schools, ohio, school stories, moving, large type books, identity (psychology), strawberry shortcake (fictitious character), friendship, pets, mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship, moving, household, identity, orphans, new york (n.y.) [X], audiobooks, curiosities and wonders