All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah by Jenkins, Emily 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 490811 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
AR: 2.8 LG RC: 2.1 K-2 Lexile: 520 AD F&P: N

Genres: Holidays Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Hanukkah - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Jews - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.

Audacity by Crowder, Melanie 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2015)

BTSB #: 251491 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-17   
AR: 6.6 MG+RC: 10.6 6-8 Lexile: 1120

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Lemlich, Clara,|d1886-1982 - Fiction Novels in verse Labor movement - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Russian Americans - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York.

Audacity Jones steals the show [Audacity Jones Volume: bk. 2]by Larson, Kirby 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 543597 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 740

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction

Subjects: Houdini, Harry,|d1874-1926 - Fiction Magic tricks - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Cats - Fiction Adventure fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: Book 2--Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are on their way to New York City, with Cypher, who is now a detective in the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and their assignment involves Harry Houdini and the illusion he is planning--and it will take all of Audie's skills, and the help of her clever cat Min, to prevent the performance from being sabotaged.

Eye of midnight by Brumbach, Andrew 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 163404 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 6.2 MG RC: 6.4 6-8 Lexile: 920 F&P: Y

Genres: Adventure Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Antiquities - Fiction Secret societies - Fiction Cousins - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Adventure fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: In May 1929 Maxine Campbell and her cousin William Battersea arrive at their grandfather's house in New Jersey to find that the house is empty--and soon they are caught up in the contest for an ancient Arabian relic called the Eye of Midnight, which several secret societies are willing to do anything to possess.

Gallery by Fitzgerald, Laura Marx 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 339564 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG RC: 6.4 6-8 Lexile: 920

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Household employees - Fiction Art - Fiction Irish Americans - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

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.

Good thieves by Rundell, Katherine 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019)

BTSB #: 771081 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 690

Genres: Adventure Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Adventure fiction Friendship - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Theft - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.

Hero two doors down by Robinson, Sharon 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 760016 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 640

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Robinson, Jackie,|d1919-1972 - Fiction Satlow, Steve - Childhood and youth - Fiction Baseball - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.

Knish War on Rivington Street by Oppenheim, Joanne 

BTSB Prebound(Whitman, 2017)

BTSB #: 690705 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
RC: 3.2 3-5 Lexile: 560

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Immigrants - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Dumplings - Fiction Bakers - Fiction Bakeries - Fiction Competition (Psychology) - Fiction Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: Benny's family owns a knishery and sells delicious round dumplings. Then the Tisch family opens a store across the street-selling square knishes-and Benny's papa worries. So he lowers his prices! But Mr. Tisch does too. As each knishery tries to outdo the other, Benny helps his papa realize there's room on Rivington Street for more than one knishery.

Rachel's roses by Wolff, Ferida 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)

BTSB #: 961276 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   


Genres: Holidays Multicultural Historical Fiction

Subjects: Dressmakers - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Rosh ha-Shanah - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: In the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the early 1900s, third-grader Rachel's mother boldly starts her own dressmaking business and Rachel discovers the perfect way to set herself apart from tagalong little sister Hannah on Rosh Hashanah.

Sandy's story by Fedor, Ashley 

BTSB Prebound(Puffin Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 327678 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-10   
AR: 4.1 LG

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Fiction Orphans - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: The story of everyone's favorite little orphan, Annie, as told through the eyes of her beloved dog, Sandy.

Threads and flames by Friesner, Esther M. 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2010)

BTSB #: 358342 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.5 MG+RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 840

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Triangle Shirtwaist Company - Fire, 1911 - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

Tormenta de nieve en luna azul [Casa del arbol. Mision Merlin (Magic tree house. Merlin mission--Spanish) Volume: #36]by Osborne, Mary Pope 

BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Lectorum, 2016)

BTSB #: 693544 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.3 LG

Genres: Spanish Bilingual Chapter Books Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Time travel - Fiction Magic - Fiction Unicorns - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Tree houses - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn. In Spanish.

Tormenta de nieve en luna azul [Casa del arbol. Mision Merlin (Magic tree house. Merlin mission--Spanish) Volume: #36]by Osborne, Mary Pope 

PaperbackSPANISH(Lectorum, 2016)

BTSB #: 693564 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.3 LG

Genres: Spanish Language Chapter Books Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Time travel - Fiction Magic - Fiction Unicorns - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Tree houses - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn. In Spanish.