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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now on Broadway as second understudy for E.T., Nate Foster keeps in close contact with his best friend, Libby, as he faces his nemesis, Jordan Rylance, and his own insecurities as the cast member with the least training and experience.
4) Small Town
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well. That was the thing about New York -- if you loved it, if it worked for you,...
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The further adventures of five sisters and their baby brother growing up in New York during World War I.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
Author
Series
In Death series volume 14
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas's past.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
In Death series volume 11
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Language
English
Description
When a police officer is found bludgeoned to death by a baseball bat in an uptown strip joint, NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers a private club called Purgatory in which clients are given a chance for atonement, everyone is judged, and one man's sins could spell damnation for the innocent.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
Author
Series
Time odyssey volume 1
Language
English
Description
A satirical glimpse into Manhattan's upper class follows Nanny, a struggling NYU student who takes a position caring for the son of the rich and glamorous X family, as she learns how to juggle a vast array of tasks so that a Park Avenue wife never has to lift a well-manicured finger.
16) Naked in death
Author
Series
In Death series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Often appearing at the top of the New York Times best-seller list, author Nora Roberts, aka J.D. Robb, stimulates the senses with her irresistible combinations of romance and suspense. Experience a gamut of emotions as secret pasts, vicious murders, and the steamy details of a tempestuous romance are revealed in this action-packed audiobook. Three young women have been brutally murdered, and Lieutenant Eve Dallas has been assigned to investigate....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City-the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist...
18) P.S. Be eleven
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Gaither sisters are back in Brooklyn, where changes large and small come to their household as they grow up during the turbulent 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A compendium of practical information and cautionary tales about fairies and other similar magical creatures that might be encountered in modern cities like New York, intended to help the child who may come into contact with them.
20) New York 2140
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides. And how we too will change.
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