Locality/New York
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of the young immigrant who led the largest strike of women workers in U.S. history. This picture book biography about the plight of immigrants in America in the early 1900s and the time
- Author: Markel, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0061804428
- Language: English
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Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel
$11.99 Add to cartQueen bee Blair Waldorf is hitting the books — but is her boyfriend hitting on someone else? The wickedly funny second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit … [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl #2
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0316499110
- Language: English
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The Little Owl & the Big Tree: A Christmas Story
$17.99 Add to cartOne Christmas, a tiny owl stuck in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree stole the hearts of the nation. Discover the true story in this heartwarming picture book from celebrated mother-son team Jonah… [more below]
- Author: Winter, Jonah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1665902132
- Language: English
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Read moreA fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
“It’s a rare person who won’t find something of interest in The Works, whether it’s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or t- Author: Ascher, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112708
- Language: English
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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
$24.00 Add to cartA charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known “City” section of the New York Times
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The- Author: Rosenblum, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0814775721
- Language: English
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The Tapper Twins Go to War (with Each Other)
$12.99 Add to cartThis bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it’s like to be in middle school in our digitally-saturated world, told as a colorful “oral history” … [more below]
- Series: Tapper Twins #1
- Author: Rodkey, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316315974
- Language: English
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
$37.43 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York
“The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of its time, of our time.”
–Sadie Stein, New York Times- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 19 2016
- ISBN10: 520285956
- Language: English
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Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“Often quite funny . . . The layers of identity and story in the memoir and Som’s fluid approach to representing the self, feel impressively easy, unbelabored.” –Hillary Chute, The New York Times Boo… [more below]
- Author: Som, Bishakh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1951491033
- Language: English
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Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreIn 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several youngers siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496584481
- Language: English
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Make Room! Make Room!: The Classic Novel of an Overpopulated Future
$17.99 Add to cartThe world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and –if they’re lucky–the odd starving rat.
In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhab- Author: Harrison, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0765318857
- Language: English
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Banana Fish, Vol. 11
$9.99 Add to cartNature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!
VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s… Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted hei- Series: Banana Fish #11
- Author: Yoshida, Akimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 13 2005
- ISBN10: 1421501341
- Language: English
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Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty
$18.99 Add to cartHow did 121,000 Americans save their most beloved icon? Here is an inspiring story about the power we have when we all work together!
* “This charming history title is a true inspiration for the presen
- Author: Stiefel, Chana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 133822588X
- Language: English
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Stomp!: Ready-To-Read Ready-To-Go!
$17.99 Add to cartBest friends Ziggy and Zak are on a madcap race through New York City in this fun-filled Ready-to-Read Ready-to-Go storybook!
Do not stomp.
Do not shout.
Breathe in.
Breathe out. When Ziggy and Zak- Series: Ready-To-Read
- Author: Calmenson, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1665916591
- Language: English
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Banana Fish, Volume 7
$11.99 Read moreNature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!
VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s… Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted hei- Series: Banana Fish #7
- Author: Yoshida, Akimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1591164192
- Language: English
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Miracle on 34th Street: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids
$19.99 Add to cartGenerations of believers in hope and goodwill have made Valentine Davies’ Miracle on 34th Street a treasured part of their holiday traditions. Millions of copies of this award-winning story have sold … [more below]
- Author: Davies, Valentine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0358439175
- Language: English
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The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight
$10.99 Add to cartThe second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First ther
- Series: Princess Diaries #2
- Author: Cabot, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0061479942
- Language: English
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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
$8.99 Add to cartIn one month Jeremy Fink will turn thirteen. But does he have what it takes to be a teenager? He collects mutant candy, he won’t venture more than four blocks from his apartment if he can help it, and… [more below]
- Author: Mass, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316058491
- Language: English
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Abuelo
$7.99 Add to cartArthur Dorros’s skillful blend of Spanish and English and Ra?l Col?n’s poignant paintings illuminate how the special bond between an abuelo and a nieto reaches across miles.
Together, a young boy and h
- Author: Dorros, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0061686301
- Language: English
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City of Bones, 1
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandem- Series: Mortal Instruments #01
- Author: Clare, Cassandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1416914285
- Language: English
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Last of the Name
$9.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Danny O’Carolan and his sister, Kathleen, arrive in New York City in 1863, at the height of the Civil War. Kathleen finds a job in domestic service for herself and Danny, hoping to kee
- Author: Parry, Rosanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728467667
- Language: English
