Finding Mighty by Chari, Sheela 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 207548 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.3 6-8 Lexile: 590 F&P: Y

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Family life - New York (State) - Fiction Graffiti - Fiction Parkour - Fiction East Indian Americans - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction Dobbs Ferry (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?

Gingersnap by Giff, Patricia Reilly 

Audio Book([Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC, 2013)

BTSB #: P02056 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Fiction Orphans - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Cooking - Fiction Missing in action - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction New York (State) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn.

Haunted by Vega, Danielle 

Paperback(Razorbill, 2020)

BTSB #: 907169 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG Lexile: 710 HL

Genres: Scary/Horror Stories Family Life

Subjects: Haunted houses - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction Moving - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Fiction New York (State) - Fiction

Summary: To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.

Sofia Acosta makes a scene by Otheguy, Emma 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2022)

BTSB #: 694155 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 870 F&P: W

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Ballet dancers - Fiction Immigration and emigration - Fiction Handicraft - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Fiction Social classes - Fiction Cuban Americans - Fiction

Summary: Sofia Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.