Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"Stacey is so excited! Her friends from The Baby-sitters Club are coming to New York City for a long weekend. It's going to be perfect -- a party and a sleepover on Friday night, a big babysitting job on Saturday, and lots of sightseeing throughout. But it turns out that the babysitters are way out of place in the big city. ... With ten kids to babysit and a full schedule of activities, how will Stacey keep the weekend from becoming a complete disaster?"--...

"Cory’s dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It’s the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! But the group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things go from bad to worse when Cory’s parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He gets stuck with a...

The "Fables" [i.e. various characters from fairy tales and folklore] have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables traveled to the "real world" and form a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York.

After moving to New York City with her family, Paige has a hard time adjusting but finds solace in the notebook she uses to practice art. As she meets people and starts to gain confidence, she wonders whether she can live up to the person she has created in her notebook.

Sybil knows there's something off about her next-door neighbor, but no one else can see that Bolivar is a dinosaur. When a parking ticket pulls Bolivar into an adventure from City Hall to New York's Natural History Museum, he must make a choice: continue to live unnoticed, or let the city see who he really is.

Emily Elizabeth is struggling to fit in at home and in school when she meets Clifford, a tiny red puppy who is destined to become her best friend. But when Clifford undergoes a magical growth spurt overnight, he attracts the attention of a genetics company looking for a way to supersize animals. With the help of her Uncle Casey, the people in her neighborhood, and some new friends made along the way, Emily Elizabeth and Clifford have to go on the...

An uproarious graphic-novel tribute to Manhattan that reflects on the culture clash between her rural-raised children and herself, sharing zany and occasionally practical advice on subjects ranging from sidewalk gum wads to navigating honeycombed grids. -- Publisher.

"Just starting her freshman year at NYU, Riley is about to find out what an adventure, and a mystery, living in New York City can be. The ultimate insider's guide to NYC is seen through the eyes of Brooklyn-born Riley. Raised by stuffy, literati parents, Riley's a shy, straight-A student who convinces three other NYU brainiacs to join a research group for fast cash"--From publisher's web site.

The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store