new york (n.y.)

Author's memoir of her Puerto Rican childhood and her family's move to New York when she was thirteen.

In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.

The author recalls her poor, but enchanted childhood in Puerto Rico, and discusses the challenges she faced when her mother decided to move the family to New York.

In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.

Tells the story of early-twentieth-century Irish-American cook Mary Mallon, who was immortalized as "Typhoid Mary" after a sanitary engineer traced a 1904 typhoid fever outbreak back to her Long Island kitchen.

"With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana Mar?a Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"--Provided by publisher.

"One hundred years before Rosa Parks took her stand, Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Jennings tried to board a streetcar in New York City on her way to church. Though there were plenty of empty seats, she was denied entry, assaulted, and threatened all because of her race--even though New York was a free state at that time. Lizzie decided to fight back. She told her story, took her case to court-- where future president Chester Arthur represented her-- and won! Her victory was the first recorded in the fight for equal rights on public transportation, and Lizzie's case set a precedent"--OCLC.

An adaptation of the classic fairy tale in which Riding Hood must find her way through twentieth-century Manhattan, where she encounters Miss Lunatic, Mister Wolf, and others.

An illustrated biography of the life of Pura Belpr? the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.

Tells the story of how the African Burial Ground, thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century, was discovered in 1991 as excavation in preparation for construction of a new federal office building exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children in what had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s.