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Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.

A retired pirate and a retired queen engage in a thunderous battle to gain control of the Central Park sailboat pond.

Presents a selection of writings and drawings from the diary of Anne Elizabeth Rector, a twelve-year-old girl who lived in New York City in 1912, and includes sidebars that describe Rector's life and family, as well as notable people, places, and events of the time.

Tired of watching over their soon-to-be-hatched eggs, four father penguins form a jazz band and travel to New York to play at all the coolest clubs.

Each turn of the page takes the reader back hundreds, thousands, and millions of years to provide descriptions of what modern-day New York City was like in earlier eras.

After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a D?rer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Offers a brief history of the Empire State Building and describes its construction and observation decks.

A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.

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.

When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.

The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left Old World dangers and immortality behind for a "normal" life in New York City, but normal doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially with lingering vampire traits complicating things.

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, the boys are very similar at heart.

When Dodsworth sets out for adventure, including a stop in New York City before going to Paris, London, and beyond, he does not expect a crazy duck to stow away in his suitcase and lead him on a merry chase.

Two newsboys in 1830s New York sell copies of the New York Sun reporting that a powerful telescope has found exotic animals and structures on the moon.