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, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer. While Isa is off at sleepaway orchestra camp, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney are stuck at home in the brownstone with nothing to do but get on one another's nerves. But when catastrophe...

The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.

Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself, but New York City is not what she expected.--

When an adventurous sister-and-brother duo become orphans, a funny and heartbreaking roadtrip to New York ensues, as the pair searches for their long-lost uncle.

An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T."

Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.

A look at the Empire State Building explores how the dream of two wealthy businessmen created the 102 story skyscraper.

Lulu is a little girl mouse who lives in the Shubert Theatre on Broadway, New York City! Fittingly, she longs to trod the theatrical boards and thinks she's found her way in when she befriends Jayne, a human cast member of the show currently running.

The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.

When her great-aunt Margo arrives in New York from Romania with her collection of stuffed bats, Emma-Rose Paley, who dislikes sunshine and hates garlic, believes she has discovered a vampire in the family and that she must be one too.