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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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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 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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[2013]., Juvenile, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: E MAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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1997, Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: 636.8 092 9 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: All aboard reading. Level 1Summary Note: The true story of a mother cat that becomes a celebrity when she rescues her kittens from a burning building in New York in 1996.
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1997, Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: 636.8 092 9 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: All aboard reading. Level 1Summary Note: The true story of a mother cat that becomes a celebrity when she rescues her kittens from a burning building in New York in 1996.
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c2011., Juvenile, ABDO Pub. Company Call No: 796 BASEBALL JET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Big buddy biographiesSummary Note: Profiles the life and career of professional baseball player Derek Jeter, describing his family, childhood, awards and accomplishments, becoming a New York Yankee, and related topics.
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Primary Call No: Biography BLACKWELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first female doctor.
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2010., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
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2010., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 811 .4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ..." Before Emma Lazarus wrote the final lines to her poem, the Statue of Liberty was known only as a gift of friendship from France to the United States. As Lazarus's words grew famous and stirred the nation, the statue came to be seen as the mother of immigrants, her torch a lamp held out to welcome them.
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2010., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the inspiration for and history of Emma Lazarus' sonnet which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's plaque.
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[2017], Adolescent, Zest Books Call No: HI-INT 363.37 SEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book examines the events leading up to the fire, including a close look at how fashion and the desire for consumer goods---driven in part by the excess of the Gilded Age---created an unsustainable culture of greed.
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c1978., C.P.I. Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the career of Elizabeth Blackwell stressing the problems she had to overcome to be a doctor, an all-male profession in the mid-nineteenth century.
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2014., Creative Editions Call No: HI-INT 940.54 LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem journeys across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, inspiring a continent with their brand of jazz music.
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c2012., Juvenile, Random House Children's Books Call No: E B WAT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- Heroes of nine elevenBy Zullo, Allanc2011., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 973.931092 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten stories of the first-responders who risked their lives on September 11, 2001.