Farmer Boy
While Laura Ingalls grows up on the western prairie, a boy named Almanzo Wilder is living on a farm in New York State.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 146
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: farm life, historical fiction, new york (state) [X], wilder, almanzo, frontier and pioneer life, wilder, laura ingalls, families, family life, family, country life, large type books, historical fiction [X]
Lucky
Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be bat boy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: mantle, mickey, maris, roger, baseball, bat boys, moving, household, stepfamilies, new york (state) [X], new york yankees (baseball team), historical fiction, historical fiction [X]
A Northern Light
Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: education, farm life, hotels, motels, etc, murder, historical fiction, adirondack mountains (n.y.), new york (state) [X], hotels and motels, homicide, historical fiction [X], bildungsromans
Gingersnap
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, 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.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: brothers and sisters, cooking, families, ghost stories, missing in action, new york (state) [X], siblings, family life, orphans, world war, 1939-1945, cookery, ghosts, family, historical fiction [X]
The Air We Breathe
Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: tuberculosis, immigrants, communicable diseases, adirondack mountains (n.y.), new york (state) [X], historical fiction [X]
Ragtime
The lives of three remarkable families become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: immigrants, african-americans, murder, homicide, united states, historical fiction, new york (state) [X], large type books, large print books, historical fiction [X]
In The Shadow Of Gotham
Detective Simon Ziele transfers away from New York City to escape the tragic reminders of his wife's death, only to be assigned to the most brutal murder he has ever seen, a case complicated by Alistair Sinclair, a noted criminologist, who shares information about one of his research subjects, Michael Fromley.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: police, murder, criminologists, homicide, historical fiction, new york (state) [X], westchester county (n.y.), mystery fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction [X]
The Edge Of Lost
On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: immigrants, prisoners, fiction / historical, inmate guards, missing children, prisons, ireland, new york (state) [X], san francisco bay area (calif.), california, united states penitentiary, alcatraz island, california, detective and mystery fiction, fiction, historical fiction [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories
Facing The Enemy
Caroline knows that in order to fight the British, her village desperately needs its shipyards and supply boats and she will do whatever it takes to keep them out of enemy hands, then later, while helping on her uncle's farm, Caroline discovers that the war brings dangers there, too.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: shipyards, farm life, cousins, conduct of life, stealing, family life, theft, new york (state) [X], united states, historical fiction [X]
I Survived The American Revolution, 1776
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 108
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: united states, survival, war, , historical fiction, war fiction, action and adventure fiction, historical fiction [X], war fiction, action and adventure fiction, children's audiobooks, war stories, adventure and adventurers, new york (state) [X], electronic books, electronic books, graphic novels, survival skills, imaginary wars and battles, war comics, historical comics, comics adaptations, graphic novels
The Beloved Wild
"In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, brothers and sisters, sex role, siblings, gender role, genesee river valley (pa. and n.y.), new york (state) [X], historical fiction [X], action and adventure fiction, romance fiction, romance fiction, adventure stories, love, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction
The Nurse's Secret
The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: swindlers and swindling, nursing, bellevue hospital, historical fiction [X], novels, fiction, new york (state) [X]