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Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maddy Livingstone, a vampire-fruit bat hybrid striving to make friends in modern-day New York City, tries to protect her family from a vicious pureblood vampire who is in the New World seeking the Tenth Knave.
7) Masterpiece
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
While sixteen-year-old Hen's family and friends try to make his supposed dreams of becoming a rock star come true, he deals with the reality of being in a band with an ex-girlfriend, a friendship that may become love, and his older sister's mysterious disappearance and reappearance.
10) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
11) Rebecca and Ana
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca, visiting Coney Island for the first time under the watchful eye of her brother Victor, tires of his bossiness and leaves the family group to go off with only her cousin Ana, whose wish to ride the Ferris wheel one more time nearly leads to disaster.
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