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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: HOLIDAY E JEN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.
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[2015]., Primary, Carolrhoda Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC NELSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Lewis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Lewis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Magic Wagon Call No: [FIC] Genre: Historical fiction Availability:7 of 7 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Maximilian lands on a ship of Irish immigrants bound for Ellis Island, where he meets a young girl named Ashling who tells her family's story and smuggles him through immigration, as well as a friendly pelican that takes him on a flight around New York Harbor in search of his damaged time machine.
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2015., Holiday House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In early twentieth-century New York City, in the golden age of magic, Leo, an orphaned magician's apprentice, becomes involved in a murder mystery when he trusts a dishonest man.
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By Avi, 1937-2015., Algonquin Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?.
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By Avi, 1937-2015., Pre-adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In 1951 Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old Pete Collison spends his time following the Giants baseball team and trying to be a detective. Then the FBI shows up accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, and Pete's classmates turn against him. Pete decides to uncover the truth, but worries it could put his family's livelihood and freedom at risk.
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By Lurie, April2004, c2002., Juvenile, Dell Yearling Call No: Historical fiction FIC LURIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl grapples with the discovery that "Pa" isn't her biological father, experiences her first romance, and faces hardships dealt to friends in Brooklyn's Norwegian community.
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2013., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Historical FIC Larkin Book 3 Edition: First Ember edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The flappersSummary Note: When Marcus leaves Clara Knowles for another girl, Clara sinks into unhappiness and Lorraine Dyer tries to save Marcus from a loveless marriage, while their fellow flapper, Gloria Carmody, is hiding a deadly secret while living among socialites at Forrest Hamilton's Long Island villa.
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2009., Adolescent, Harper Call No: Romance FIC Godbersen Book 3 Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Elizabeth Holland finally returns home, all of Manhattan expects her to immediately resume her seat at the peak of society. Elizabeth has no intention of rejoining her sister's side, however, causing those watching the family to suspect that all is not well in their home.
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[2015], Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Julian Twerski becomes locked into a battle with his strict school principal after he is accused of vandalizing a painting, tries to cope with the terminal illness of his best friend Quentin, and develops feelings for Beverly, his friend Howie's crush.
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c2002., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: 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.
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2011., Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Mystery FIC HAINES Hai Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
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2012., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Mystery FIC Haines Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
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2012., Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Mystery FIC HAINES Hai Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Late 1942 in New York City finds fifteen-year-old Iris helping more with her father's detective business, as long as she follows his rules and learns his techniques, but her investigation into her mother's supposed suicide gets Iris in big trouble--and not just with her father.
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[2015], Juvenile, Amistad Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Three feisty sisters--Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern Gaither--help their eighty-two-year-old grandmother, Ma Charles, make peace with her half-sister, Miss Trotter, while visiting Ma Charles in Alabama during the summer of 1969.
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2007., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC MYERS Mye Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.
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-- Hero 2 doors down2016., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: F Rob Edition: 1st ed., February 2016. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Random House Childrens Books Call No: JUV001000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Magic tree house. A Merlin mission Volume: #50Summary Note: "Join Jack and Annie as they as they meet one of the world's most famous illusionists - Harry Houdini!"--
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By Kerr, M. E2009., Adolescent, Marshall Cavendish Call No: Realistic FIC Kerr Edition: 1st Marshall Cavendish Classics ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alan, a popular senior high school student, faces painful changes after a new student, Duncan "Doomed" Stein, comes to town and starts an influential underground newspaper.
