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c2023., Pre-adolescent, Lightbox Learning Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History makers: past and present.Summary Note: In 2018, at the age of 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the younges woman ever selected to Congress. Alexandria has faced many obstacles as a ppolitidcian. She is young, belongs to a visible minority, and comes from a working-class background. Find out more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this title.
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1999, c1998., Vintage Books Call No: B Santiago Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Esmeralda Santiago discusses what it was like to grow up as a Puerto Rican teenager in New York and to go against the wishes of her over-protective mother and discover her true identity.
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2005., A & E Television Networks Call No: DVD 973.9 ELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American history.Summary Note: A documentary on the nation's largest 20th-century immigration portal. The program captures the doors through which so many traveled on their way to help build a modern America.
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2004., Pre-adolescent, Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 973.81 BRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: America's industrial society in the 19th centurySummary Note: Examines the life and career of Boss Tweed, the powerful, influential, and corrupt public works commissioner for New York City from 1863-1871, and of the political organization that he and his associates controlled.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The diary of a twelve-year-old girl living in New York City in 1912, with sidebars describing the author/illustrator's life and family and significant events of the year and the city.
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2011, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: E SWE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Who first invented the giant balloons that fill the skies for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? Tony Sarg -- puppeteer, illustrator and legendary prankster who once declared, "I never worked a day in my life." Author Melissa Sweet tells the story of this puppeteer, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America -- the inspired helium balloons that became the trademark of Macy's Parade.
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c2011., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: E SWE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America--the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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2011., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Who first invented the giant balloons that fill the skies for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? Tony Sarg -- puppeteer, illustrator and legendary prankster who once declared, "I never worked a day in my life." Author Melissa Sweet tells the story of this puppeteer, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America -- the inspired helium balloons that became the trademark of Macy's Parade.
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[2011], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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2011., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B SAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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[2011]., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: E Swe Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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2015., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: 921 MANZANO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A coming-of-age memoir by the Emmy award-winning actress and writer offers a look into the daily lives of a loving, but troubled, Latino family and a girl kept afloat amid the turbulence of her life and times by the dream of becoming an actress.
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2023., Penguin Press Call No: B LAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael and Jonathan both got into Yale, they seemed set to ascend to the heights of the American meritocratic elite. Leaving Jonathan behind, Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job for far more money than their parents had ever made. But all wasn't as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the fateful call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was institutionalized at a New York City psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He would stay there for nine months before transitioning to a halfway house. Facing the prospect of a life spent bagging groceries, Michael decided to play the one card left to him: just before his break, he had been accepted to Yale Law School, and now, against all odds, he planned to enroll. Still struggling mightily with schizophrenia, Michael made it through the top law school in the country. His extraordinary story soon made the front page of the New York Times; an agent sold his memoir to a major publisher for a large sum; Ron Howard swept in to acquire film rights, with Brad Pitt set to star. It was all a dream come true for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then, the unimaginable happened: in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, Michael stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife. To this day, Michael Laudor remains confined to a maximum-security forensic hospital in upstate New York. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of what happened to Michael Laudor, and why. Exploring the dramatic transformation of American culture and of society's relationship to mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a story about the power and limits of the bonds of family, friendship, and community, the lure of the American dream and the promise of academic achievement. At times tender and hilarious, and at times harrowing and almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely"--
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: FIC BER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's the year 2000 in New York City. For 12-year-old Alyssa, this means splitting time between her Puerto Rican dad's apartment in Manhattan and her white mom's new place in Queens, navigating the trials and tribulations of middle school, and an epic crush on a new classmate. The only way to make sense of it all is to capture the highs and lows in doodles and hilarious comics in a diary. Then life abruptly changes on September 11, 2001. After the Twin Towers fall and so many lives are lost, worries about gossip and boys feel distant and insignificant. Alyssa must find a new sense of self and purpose amidst all of the chaos, and find the strength to move forward with hope"--From the publisher's web site.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Edition: First edition. Genre: Graphic novels Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's the year 2000 in New York City. For 12-year-old Alyssa, this means splitting time between her Puerto Rican dad's apartment in Manhattan and her white mom's new place in Queens, navigating the trials and tribulations of middle school, and an epic crush on a new classmate. The only way to make sense of it all is to capture the highs and lows in doodles and hilarious comics in a diary. Then life abruptly changes on September 11, 2001. After the Twin Towers fall and so many lives are lost, worries about gossip and boys feel distant and insignificant. Alyssa must find a new sense of self and purpose amidst all of the chaos, and find the strength to move forward with hope"--From the publisher's web site.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: GN B BER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's the year 2000 in New York City. For 12-year-old Alyssa, this means splitting time between her Puerto Rican dad's apartment in Manhattan and her white mom's new place in Queens, navigating the trials and tribulations of middle school, and an epic crush on a new classmate. The only way to make sense of it all is to capture the highs and lows in doodles and hilarious comics in a diary. Then life abruptly changes on September 11, 2001. After the Twin Towers fall and so many lives are lost, worries about gossip and boys feel distant and insignificant. Alyssa must find a new sense of self and purpose amidst all of the chaos, and find the strength to move forward with hope"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2014], Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 921 BOEHEIM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A candid personal account by the Syracuse head coach reflects on his life, teachers and game experiences; recounts the events of the competitive 1980s Big East conference and offers insight into allegations against assistant Bernie Fine.
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[2014], Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The head coach of the Syracuse University basketball team recounts his fifty-year career as a player, assistant, and head coach at the school, with an inside account of Syracuse's 2013-2014 season.