Geographic Orientation/New York
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The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year)
$18.99 Add to cartThe Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss’s classic cautionary tale, introduces readers to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity br… [more below]
- Series: Classic Seuss
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394865804
- Language: English
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What Was Ellis Island?
$7.99 Add to cartFrom 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not res… [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2014
- ISBN10: 044847915X
- Language: English
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Farmer Boy
$9.99 Add to cartThe second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura live
- Series: Little House #2
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08, 2008
- ISBN10: 0064400034
- Language: English
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
$17.99 Add to cart“Guaranteed to make blood boil.” –Janet Maslin, New York Times
In Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351599
- Language: English
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The Princess Diaries
$15.99 Add to cartThe first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there’s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who al
- Series: Princess Diaries #1
- Author: Cabot, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0061479934
- Language: English
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Escape from the Twin Towers (Ranger in Time #11): Volume 11
$7.99 Add to cartRanger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, travels to New York City on the morning of the 9/11 attacks.
COURAGE IN THE FACE OF DANGER
Ranger has never needed his searc
- Series: Ranger in Time #11
- Author: Messner, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1338537946
- Language: English
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All-Of-A-Kind Family
$7.99 Add to cartMeet the All-of-a-Kind Family — Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie — who live with their parents in New York City at the turn of the century.
Together they share adventures that find them sea- Series: All-Of-A-Kind Family Classics
- Author: Taylor, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01, 1984
- ISBN10: 0440400597
- Language: English
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The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen
$12.95 Add to cartA spunky African American girl has a hula-hooping competition with her friends in Harlem, and soon everyone in the neighborhood–young and old alike–joins in on the fun.
Kameeka is confident that toda
- Author: Godin, Thelma Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1620145790
- Language: English
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A Place Called Home: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartPORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER
A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recogni
Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year- Author: Ambroz, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306903547
- Language: English
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This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth
$19.99 Add to cartA deeply moving story about community and resilience, from the point-of-view of the Callery pear tree that survived the attacks on September 11, from Eisner Award-nominated author-illustrator Sean Rub
- Author: Rubin, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1250788501
- Language: English
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
$70.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shap… [more below]
- Author: Caro, Robert A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1296
- Publish Date: July 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394480767
- Language: English
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P.S. Be Eleven
$9.99 Add to cartThe Gaither sisters are at it again A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dre
- Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0061938645
- Language: English
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$19.00 Add to cartA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
Fro
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 30, 2006
- ISBN10: 0061120073
- Language: English
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Meet Claudie
$16.99 Read moreClaudie Wells wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly, instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. She believes everyone has a talent except for her. She’s growin… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Bennett, Brit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1683372026
- Language: English
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A Very Merry Christmas (Geronimo Stilton #35)
$8.99 Read moreEnter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny adventure is always right around the corner. Each book is a fast-paced adventure with lively art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love.
‘Tis t… [more below]
- Series: Geronimo Stilton #35
- Author: Stilton, Geronimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0545021359
- Language: English
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Abuela
$8.99 Add to cartA young girl and her grandmother celebrate their home and relationship in this magical story. Winner of the Parents’ Choice Award!
Come join Rosalba and her grandmother, her abuela, on a magical journ- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Dorros, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0140562257
- Language: English
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
$23.00 Add to cart“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowl
-The New York Times- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0345476395
- Language: English
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How Little Lori Visited Times Square
$19.99 Add to cartA Sendak treasure long out of print available for the first time in decades.
- Author: Vogel, Amos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0060284625
- Language: English
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The Best of Everything
$21.00 Add to cartRona Jaffe’s beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time i… [more below]
- Author: Jaffe, Rona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 014313731X
- Language: English
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Drag King Dreams
$21.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as m… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 22, 2006
- ISBN10: 0786717637
- Language: English
