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  • Starring Jules (third grade debut)

    Starring Jules (third grade debut)2014

    by Beth Levine Ain

    Series: Starring Jules - #4

    (75)

    Summary: Jules is starting third grade, but her new teacher seems a little strange, she has to choose and research a famous person for the class wax museum project, and rehearsals for the sitcom she is in are...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F AIN

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Starring Jules (in drama-rama)

    Starring Jules (in drama-rama)2013

    by Beth Levine Ain

    Series: Starring Jules Series

    (102)

    Summary: Jules, excited and nervous about her part in a sitcom pilot, is also concerned about her class moving up ceremony and her touchy relationships with ex-best friend Charlotte and new best friend...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F AIN

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • City of orphans

    City of orphans2011

    by 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.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F AVI

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Twenty-one elephants

    Twenty-one elephants2004

    by Phil Bildner

    (108)

    Summary: Eight-year-old Hannah, upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, enlists the help of P.T. Barnum and his twenty-one elephants to prove to her father and all of Brooklyn that the bridge is safe.

    BOOK

    Call #: J P HISTORY BILDNER

    Location: Junior Picture Books - History

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Luke on the loose : a Toon Book

    Luke on the loose : a Toon Book2009

    by Harry Bliss

    Series: Toon Books

    (398)

    Summary: A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.

    BOOK

    Call #: J GN TOO

    Location: Junior Graphic Novels

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The lost legacy

    The lost legacy2017

    by Gwenda Bond

    Series: Supernormal Sleuthing Service - #1

    (277)

    Summary: Stephen' father replaces Nana cooking for "supernormals" at an elite New York City hotel, but when a magical family heirloom is stolen, Stephen must quickly figure out his new world and clear his name, with help from new friends.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F BOND

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Masterpiece

    Masterpiece2008

    by Elise Broach

    Series: Masterpiece Adventures

    (8,199)

    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 a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F BROACH

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • City of the plague god

    City of the plague god2021

    by Sarwat Chadda

    (2,637)

    Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. But all that is blown to smithereens when Nergal comes looking for him, thinking that Sik...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F CHADDA

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • City of fallen angels : the mortal instruments

    City of fallen angels : the mortal instruments2015

    by Cassandra Clare

    Series: Mortal Instruments - #4

    (574,096)

    Summary: The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power....  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: YA F CLARE

    Location: YA Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Glitter gets everywhere

    Glitter gets everywhere2021

    by Yvette Clark

    (399)

    Summary: After Kitty's mother dies on an inappropriately sunny Tuesday, all Kitty wants is for her life to go back to "normal" -- whatever that will mean without her mum. Instead, her dad announces that he,...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F CLARK

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Counting Thyme

    Counting Thyme2016

    by Melanie Conklin

    (2,794)

    Summary: "Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F CONKLIN

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Gracias, the Thanksgiving turkey

    Gracias, the Thanksgiving turkey1996

    by Joy Cowley

    (279)

    Summary: Trouble ensues when Papa gets Miguel a turkey to fatten up for Thanksgiving and Miguel develops an attachment to it.

    BOOK

    Call #: J P HOLIDAYS COWLEY

    Location: Junior Picture Books - Holidays

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Revolution

    Revolution2011

    by Jennifer Donnelly

    (28,887)

    Summary: Brooklyn: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She's angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: YA F DONNELLY

    Location: YA Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The dragon thief

    The dragon thief2021

    by Zetta Elliott

    Series: Dragons In A Bag - #2

    Summary: Jaxon had just one job -- to return three baby dragons to the realm of magic. But when he got there, only two dragons were left in the bag. His best friend's sister, Kavita, is a dragon thief! Kavita...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F ELLIOTT

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The witch's apprentice

    The witch's apprentice2022

    by Zetta Elliott

    Series: Dragons In A Bag - #3

    (171)

    Summary: Ever since the baby dragons were returned to the magical realm, things have been off. The Brooklyn summer has been unusually cold, a strange sleeping sickness is spreading across the city, and...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F ELLIOTT

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Dragons in a bag

    Dragons in a bag2019

    by Zetta Elliott

    Series: Dragons In A Bag - #1

    Summary: When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother -- but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F ELLIOTT

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Flor fights back : a Stonewall Riots survival story

    Flor fights back : a Stonewall Riots survival story2023

    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....  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GIRLS

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • Light for all

    Light for all2021

    by Margarita Engle

    (216)

    Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty's light shines for all.

    BOOK

    Call #: J P HISTORY ENGLE

    Location: Junior Picture Books - History

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The Saturdays

    The Saturdays2008

    by Elizabeth Enright

    Series: Melendy Quartet

    (9,462)

    Summary: Four New York City siblings decide to pool their resources so that each can do a special thing on the Saturday that is his turn to receive the combined allowance.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F ENRIGHT

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Witches of Brooklyn. Book 1

    Witches of Brooklyn. Book 12020

    by Sophie Escabasse , artist

    Series: Witches Of Brooklyn

    (3,678)

    Summary: Effie moves to Brooklyn to live with her strange aunt and soon discovers that she might be a witch.

    BOOK

    Call #: J GN ESC

    Location: Junior Graphic Novels

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Into the lion's den

    Into the lion's den2016

    by Linda A. Fairstein

    Series: Devlin Quick Mysteries - #1

    (520)

    Summary: "Twelve year old Devlin Quick is determined to bring a thief to justice when someone steals a page out of a rare maps book in the New York Public Library." -- Provided by publisher

    BOOK

    Call #: J F FAIRSTEIN

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Better Nate than ever

    Better Nate than ever2013

    by Tim Federle

    Series: Better Nate Than Ever Series

    (7,909)

    Summary: Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he's wanted to star in a Broadway show. But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he's stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one,...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F FEDERLE

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Five, six, seven, Nate!

    Five, six, seven, Nate!2014

    by Tim Federle

    Series: Nate

    (2,709)

    Summary: Armed with a one-way ticket to New York City, small-town theater geek Nate is off to start rehearsals for E.T.: the musical. It's everything he ever practiced his autograph for! But as thrilling as...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F FEDERLE

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Mouseheart. Vol. 1

    Mouseheart. Vol. 12014

    by Lisa Fiedler

    Series: Mouseheart Series

    (1,406)

    Summary: The Warriors series meets Redwall in this first book in an epic animal adventure series set in the subway tunnels of Brooklyn. Hopper is just an ordinary pet shop mouse before he escapes. Soon he...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F FIEDLER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The gallery

    The gallery2016

    by Laura Marx Fitzgerald

    Summary: In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F FITZGERALD

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Molly and the Twin Towers : a 9/11 survival story

    Molly and the Twin Towers : a 9/11 survival story2021

    by Jessika Fleck

    Series: Girls Survive

    (96)

    Summary: Life in lower Manhattan is normal for Molly, her dads, and younger sister. But on September 11, 2001, everything changes. Molly and her younger sister, Adeline, are at school when the first plane...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GIRLS

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Ferry boat

    Ferry boat2021

    by Michael Garland

    (59)

    Summary: A child describes each moment of the ferry boat ride from Manhattan to Staten Island and back, including seeing the Statue of Liberty and the Verrazano Bridge.

    BOOK

    Call #: J READER GREEN GARLAND

    Location: Junior Readers Green

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Choose your own adventure. Eighth grade witch

    Choose your own adventure. Eighth grade witch2021

    by Andrew E. C. Gaska

    (141)

    Summary: From the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels comes a newly adapted graphic novel taking readers on their own visual adventure! Enter a ghoulish world of nightmares, witches, ghosts, and the dreaded...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J GN CHO

    Location: Junior Graphic Novels

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Lucy fights the flames : a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory survival story

    Lucy fights the flames : a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory survival story2020

    by Julie Gilbert

    Series: Girls Survive

    (99)

    Summary: In 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several younger siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GIRLS

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Alice Austen lived here

    Alice Austen lived here2022

    by Alex Gino

    (855)

    Summary: Middle school student Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They're nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam's family is very cool with it -- as long as Sam...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GINO

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

    The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street2017

    by Karina Yan Glaser

    Series: Vanderbeekers

    (19,995)

    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.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

    The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street2018

    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,...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers to the rescue

    The Vanderbeekers to the rescue2019

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden

    The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden2018

    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,...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers make a wish

    The Vanderbeekers make a wish2021

    by 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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers lost and found

    The Vanderbeekers lost and found2020

    by 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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers on the road
    Staff Pick

    The Vanderbeekers on the road2022

    by 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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • The Vanderbeekers ever after

    The Vanderbeekers ever after2023

    by Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator

    Series: Vanderbeekers - #7

    Summary: The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people! But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GLASER

    Location: New Junior Fiction

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • The hula hoopin' queen

    The hula hoopin' queen2014

    by Thelma Lynne Godin

    (821)

    Summary: Kameeka yearns to continue her hula hooping competition with her rival, Jamara, rather than help prepare for Miz Adeline's birthday party, and "the itch" almost ruins the party before the girls learn who the real winner is.

    BOOK

    Call #: J P STORIES GODIN

    Location: Junior Picture Books - Stories

    copies in: 1 of 1 details

  • Harriet the spy, double agent

    Harriet the spy, double agent2005

    by Maya Gold

    (281)

    Summary: While spying on her New York City neighborhood with a new friend, Annie, twelve-year-old Harriet decides that the only way to learn Annie's many secrets is to spy on her, as well.

    BOOK

    Call #: J F GOLD

    Location: Junior Fiction

    copies in: 1 of 1 details