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by
Joy Michael Ellison
(15)
Summary: After Flor's mother dies in early 1969, she is left with her grandmother who refuses to accept Flor's identity as a trans girl. Flor decides that in order to be true to herself, she must leave home....
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Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tara Altebrando
(900)
Summary: Jane, her twin brother Marcus, and their father have been on the road since her mother's departure years ago, but when they inherit a house on Coney Island, Jane not only begins to find a home, she learns much about her mother, too.
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Karina Yan Glaser
Summary: It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his best friend and the Vanderbeeker children...
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Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #5
(1,971)
Summary: It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his best friend and the Vanderbeeker children...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
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by
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
(2,680)
Summary: As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
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Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #4
(2,744)
Summary: When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon -- and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
Summary: When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon -- and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community...
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Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
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Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
(1,175)
Summary: Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own father, the whole crew is packed and ready for a cross-country adventure. Things get off to a rocky start when the car breaks...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Summary: For the Vanderbeekers, a large bi-racial family living on Harlem's 141st Street, spring break couldn't be off to a better start. Isa has a whole week to prepare for a violin audition, Oliver is...
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Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #1
(19,831)
Summary: The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease,...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #3
(3,801)
Summary: For the Vanderbeekers, a large bi-racial family living on Harlem's 141st Street, spring break couldn't be off to a better start. Isa has a whole week to prepare for a violin audition, Oliver is...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #2
(5,535)
Summary: "When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash,...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #1
Summary: Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Summary: The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease,...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
(5,590)
Summary: "When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash,...
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by
Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman
(711)
Summary: In this wordless story, a young girl and her grandmother view works inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the balloon she has been forced to leave outside floats around New York City causing a...
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BOOK
Call #: J P STORIES WEITZMAN
Location: Junior Picture Books - Stories
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gary D Schmidt
(34,399)
Summary: As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally...
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by
Kate Messner
(190)
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in...
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Call #: J F MESSNER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Patterson
Summary: Tandy Angel isn't a normal girl, and she knows it. For one thing, her family is magnificently wealthy and lives in a massive apartment in the famous Dakota building in New York City. Her parents are...
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by
Alan Gratz
(14,926)
Summary: Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that...
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Call #: J F GRATZ
Location: Junior Fiction
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Avi
(3,383)
Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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Call #: J F AVI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lisa Jahn-Clough
(101)
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Melita, the sophisticated daughter of a New York actress, comes to visit Phoebe, who has been raised by her father on a farm in Maine, Phoebe discovers she has confusing feelings about their developing friendship.
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by
Elise Broach
Summary: After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover an Albrecht Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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by
Mike Lupica
(5,376)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to...
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by
Susan Beth Pfeffer
(38,658)
Summary: After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
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by
Deborah Hopkinson
(509)
Summary: In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their Manhattan home.
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Call #: J P HISTORY HOPKINSON
Location: Junior Picture Books - History
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Series:
American Girl Rebecca Series
(1,123)
Summary: While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.
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Call #: J F AMERICAN REBECCA
Location: Junior Fiction
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by
Tracy Mack
Summary: Swirling riffs of language and a propulsive beat set this gritty, transcendent novel in motion. Amid the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best friend, Flyer, are filming a...
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by
Lauren Mechling
(131)
Summary: Reconciled with her friends and enjoying life with her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Mimi hopes for a happier second term at the progressive Baldwin School but soon finds herself drawn...
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by
Peter Cameron
Summary: Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
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by
K. L. Going
(8,202)
Summary: Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated,...
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by
Kirsten Miller
(12,043)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives.
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by
Kirsten Miller
(12,043)
Summary: Tennessean and teenage dressmaker Haven Moore can't control her visions of an unknown past with a boy named Ethan. After an eerie string of coincidences sends her to New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow...
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by
Ellen Potter
(3,954)
Summary: Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
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by
Carolyn MacCullough
(15,346)
Summary: Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the...
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by
Meg Cabot
(56,623)
Summary: In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
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by
Caroline B Cooney
(6,853)
Summary: While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
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by
Gayle Forman
(287,301)
Summary: Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
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by
Cassandra Clare
(924,389)
Summary: Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of...
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by
Meg Cabot
(32,236)
Summary: It's an all new school year for Princess Mia, with all new classes, all new challenges . . . and all new worries. With a baby brother at home who won't stop crying and a potential eco-disaster in her...
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