"Escaping months of imprisonment by the insane Alpha queen Minerva, Lyric Walker returns to Coney Island to warn the world of the Great Abyss only to encounter a different place where humans and Alpha are working together to rebuild the country."--OCLC.
After the invasion, those who survived live in terror of an enemy too powerful to be killed. And when Lyric sets out to locate her parents, she finds herself imprisoned and training a group of thirty-three children who might be the world's final hope.
A hearing boy and his deaf parents from Brooklyn enjoy the rides, food, and sights of 1930's Coney Island where the father longs to know about how everything sounds and his son tries to interpret the noisy surroundings through sign language and a wealth of new words learned from a trip to the library.
Rhyming text tells of a boy's birthday at Coney Island, while each turn of the page reveals a new meaning for an oronym--a pair of words or phrases which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
A Jewish immigrant who is saving money to bring his wife and children to join him in America creates ornate horses for a carousel on Coney Island, one for each member of his family.
When Lily goes to Coney Island in 1909 to visit her newborn sister, she learns about the art and traditions of the Jewish woodcarvers who make the carousel animals there.
A study of Coney Island amusement park in New York, presenting it as an example of the growing cultural revolt against genteel standards of taste and conduct in turn-of-the-century America.
Sara Goldfarb, a widow driven by an obsession to lose weight and appear on a television game show, and her son Harry, a junkie, both see drugs as the means to achieve their dreams, not realizing they are creating a nightmare.
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.
