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Top reading comprehensions with most references to New York
Cities, Plains - Middle Atlantic Region (Grade 6)
The Economy of the Middle Atlantic Region (Grade 6)
Hillary Clinton Elected Senator (Grade 8)
Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"? (Grade 7)
William "Boss" Tweed - How to Make Money in Politics (Grade 9)
Robert Lipsyte (Grades 9-12)
Moving Day for Monica (Grade 5)
Stephen Crane (Grades 9-12)
Aaron Burr (Grade 9)
Yankee Numbers (Grade 3)
William "Boss" Tweed - Adventures in Justice (Grades 9-12)
Sweetness in the Ring - Sugar Ray Robinson (Grade 7)
Biographies
(no assigned grade level)
George Washington
Juliette Gordon Low
Samuel F. B. Morse
(Grades 3-5)
"Louis, the Yard Teacher"
A Time Machine into the Past
A Toy That Can Be Read
Dreaming up Stories
Enchanted
Lonely Traveler
Noah Webster
One's True Form
Parents of Curious George
Polly Horvath--Everything on a Waffle?
Richard Peck: First Chapter Is Last
School Matters
Stories with a Twist
(Grades 6-8)
A Pearl to Behold: Pearl Bailey
A Real Superman
Amelia Jenks Bloomer: Fashion Trend Setter
American Cartoonist
Andres Segovia
Arnold Lobel
Augusta Savage
Auguste Bartholdi
B.F. Skinner
Blowin' Down That Old Dusty Road
Bob "The Cooz" Cousy
Bob Marley
Booker T. Washington
Career in a Closet
Carroll O'Connor
Catharine Beecher
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charles Lindbergh
Daniel Webster - The Great Orator
Desi Arnaz
Edgar Allan Poe
Elie Wiesel
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus
Esther Forbes: Love of the Past
Ethel Merman
Fame and Grandma Moses
Forever Endora
Frank Lloyd Wright
Garret A. Morgan, Inventor of Safety Devices
Grace Kelly
Harriet Tubman
Henry Adams: A Teacher Affects Eternity
Isaac Asimov
J.K. Rowling
Jacob Riis
James Thurber, Author and Cartoonist
Jean Craighead George: The Wonders of Nature
Jesse Owens
John Biggers
John Glenn
Josephine Baker
Judy Blume
Julia Child
Julia Richman
Katharine Hepburn
Katie Couric - Lady Correspondent
Langston Hughes
Leo Lionni
Levi Strauss and Blue Jeans
Linda Sue Park: Family History Uncovered
Lois Lowry
Magical Dreams
Marlon Brando
Mary Anderson, Inventor of the Windshield Wiper
Mary Pope Osborne
Matthew Henson
Melting Clocks and Salvador Dali
Mobile Artist
Moe Howard
Multi-talented Maya Angelou
Nellie Bly: A Pioneer for Women's Rights
New Jersey's All-American - Paul Robeson
Nolan Ryan
Norman Rockwell
P. T. Barnum
Richard Jordan Gatling
Robert Frost
Russian-Jewish Artist
Sarah Vaughn: The Divine One
Sojourner Truth
Sweetness in the Ring - Sugar Ray Robinson
The Hoosier Poet
The Life of Matt Christopher
The Life of Peggy Fleming
The Man Who Made Animals Talk
The Singing Cowboy
The World's Favorite Cowboy
Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park
W.E.B. DuBois
Washington Irving
Where's Butch?
Wilt Chamberlain
Yellow Springs Teller - Virginia Hamilton
(Grades 9-12)
A New World of Music
Aaron Burr
Anna Pavlova, the Immortal Swan
Biography of Calvin Klein
Coming of Age in America—The Life of Margaret Mead
Dr. Antonia Novello: Surgeon General
Dr. Mae Jemison: A True Explorer
Frederick E. Church, Landscape Artist Extraordinaire
George W. G. Ferris
Jackson Pollock, or Jack the Dripper
James A. Michener, the Born Storyteller
John Coltrane
Judith Jamison
Kofi Annan
Maria Tallchief - The Light of Two Worlds
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
Nicholas Roerich
Pablo Picasso, the Inventor of Cubism
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Roosevelt
Daily Themes
(Grades 1-2)
9-11 Search Dogs
Call Me Dan
Ellis Island Family History Day
Morningeagle
Not Even a Blizzard
Susie's Sixth Birthday
The House of Ruth
(Grades 3-5)
"Livestrong"
"Livestrong"
"Only You Can Prevent Wildfires"
Goosebumps Give Goosebumps
A Blur on the Ice
A Kid's Captain
A President's Labor Day
A Sports Great
Around and Around
Barbershop Quartet Competition
Barbershop Quartet Competition
Beans and Bingo
Blasted Off Twice
Born to Play Football
Building Art
Crash!
Doctor on the Court
First Lady Librarian
Girl Power!
Go Girls!
Going to the Circus
Goooaaal!
High in the Sky
I Scream, You Scream
Is It Real?
It's Not Easy Being Green
Kewpies
Labor Day
Liberty Enlightening the World
Light My Way
May I Borrow a Stamp?
Mickey Mouse's Birthday!
More Than a Wrinkle
Mrs. President?
Never-ending Ideas
One Scoop or Two?
Peace Bridge
Simple?
Stormin' Norman
Sunglasses Hunt
The Babe of Baseball
The Big Ditch
The Smallest One
The Wizard's Wizard
Underground Freedom Fighter
Wild Thing
Yankee Numbers
(Grades 6-8)
A Bad Trick
A New Tradition
Charles Lindbergh
Hot Dog Trivia
I'm a Proud American!
In Honor of Heroes
Inaugural Parades
Memorial Day
National Heroes Day in Jamaica
O. Henry
Ogden Nash
Roberto Luongo
The Edible Cup
The Statue of Liberty: A Welcome Sight!
Three Kings Day
United Nations Play
Who Is Lady Liberty?
Women's Equality Day
(Grades 9-12)
America's Number One Snack
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Miscellaneous
(no assigned grade level)
Billy the Kid
Jackie Robinson
Statue of Liberty
Thomas Alva Edison
What Ever Happened to Amelia Earhart?
(Grades 1-2)
Me Llama Pablo
Yoko Yodels
(Grades 3-5)
A Presidential Project - Mt. Rushmore
Addressing an Envelope
American Symbols
Amistad
Andrew Carnegie
Beauty in Stillness
Benedict Arnold
Black Literature Leaders
Bridging People and Places
Changing Communities
Chester A. Arthur
Common Cents
Communities
Countries, States, Cities, and Towns
Dolley Madison Saves President Washington
Early Slave Trade
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Geo-What?
Geographical Landforms
Gerald McDermott
Going West
Harriet Tubman
Home of Mac and the Snowbirds
Ice Hockey
Jeff Brown
John Wilkes Booth
Living Near a Nuclear Power Plant
Liz Overcomes Homelessness in America
Make a Difference Express
Making Money
Martin Van Buren
Millard Fillmore
Mormons
Moving Day for Monica
Nancy and the Noise Wall
New England
New Jersey
New Year's Eve
Olympic Cross-Country Skiing
Olympic Speed Skating
One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out
Panic of 1837
Parts of a Map
Producing and Supplying Electricity: Garden of Amps
Punxsutawney Who?
Rails, Roads, and Water
Rebellions
Sengbe and the Amistad - "Give Us Free!"
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Subways
The American Colonization Society
The Body's Highway System
The Canine Heroes of 9-11
The Charter Oak Tree
The Erie Canal
The Iroquois
The Missouri Compromise
The Seal of Approval
The Spoils System
The Statue of Liberty
The Teddy Bear
The World of Jazz
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Thomas Paine
Touring the United States Regions
Ulysses S. Grant as President
Using a Map
Welcome to America
Where Has Our Water Gone?
Why President Lincoln Grew a Beard
You Can Write a Lune
(Grades 6-8)
"Say Cheese" - The First Affordable Camera
9/11 Hero: Father Mychal Judge
A Day Without Immigrants
A Formal Beginning
A Revolver and a Showman
A Sport That Bowled 'Em Over
African-American Artists
Air Jordan
Al "Scarface" Capone
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alex Flinn
Alexander Hamilton
America's First Women Dentists
American Musicians
An Early New Jersey Timeline
Anna Marie Jarvis: The Mother of Mother's Day
Annie Edson Taylor: Queen of the Mist
Avi
Balloons As Weapons?
Barbara Bush
Baron von Steuben
Baseball Hall of Fame
Battles of Saratoga
Benedict Arnold
Bessie Coleman: "World's Greatest Woman Flyer"
Betty Ford
Bill Cosby Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Billy Demong: Skier with an Odd Tattoo
Books Tell the Story
Boris Goldovsky
Boy Scouts of America
Building Our Nation’s Capital
Cable Cars
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Changes in Sea Level
Chris Burke - A Success Story
Cities, Plains - Middle Atlantic Region
Civil War Photography
Civil War Prisons
Clara Barton
Comic Books Come of Age
Coxsackie Virus
Creation of the Post Office Department
Declaration of Independence
Declaring Our Independence
Delaware - The Early History
Dewey Defeats Truman! Or Does He?
Discovery of the North Pole
Dog Sledding
Dr. Emily Stowe: In Spite of the Odds
Draft Law and Riots
Earth Movements and Time Zones
Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the World
Eleanor Roosevelt - From Wallflower to Activist
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ellen Wilson
Ellis Island of the West - Angel Island
Ellis Island
Emma Hart Willard
Escaping Starvation in Holland
Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga
Explorers for Holland
Exploring North America - Its Water
Fame Can Be Found in Many Ways
Fort Sumter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom's Journal
From Hunting Ground to Home
From One Ol' Cat to Baseball
Gateway to a New World - Ellis Island
General Charles Cornwallis
General John Burgoyne
General William Howe
George Washington - General
George Washington's Army - The Department of War
George Washington
Giovanni da Verrazano
Good Grief! — Those Zany Oxymorons
Grandma Tetrazzini's Noodle Heaven
Groundhog Day Across the Country
Grover Cleveland
He Walked Softly - Teddy Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton Elected Senator
Home Sweet Home - Life in Hooverville
Home Sweet Home for an Immigrant
Homelessness in America
How an Olympic City is Chosen
How Can You Play Polo in the Water?
How Do Light Bulbs Work?
How Does a Nor'easter Work?
How Immigrants Lived
Immigrant Children at Play
Immigrant Children at School
Immigrant Children at Work
Immigrant Cooking in America
Inaugural Address
Jackie O
Jacqueline Kennedy
James Howe
James Ramsey Ullman
Jean Learns About National Symbols and Holidays
Jean Studies U.S. Geography
Jennifer Lopez
Jerome Bruner
John Coy
John Glenn
Katherine Paterson
Kathleen Karr
Kerry's Plan - A Story about Being Prepared
Lady Liberty Gets a Makeover!
Law Enforcement and Fire Fighting
Leaders in the Judicial Branch
Letter of Reaction - Letter of Appreciation
Life as an Immigrant
Life as an Immigrant
Life with a Cat
Life with a Pot-bellied Pig
Live Earth Concert 2007
Lost Water?
Madam C. J. Walker - From Rags to Riches
Making Maple Syrup
Manhattan Project
Mapping the Earth's Surface
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Martha Washington
Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, or Ethnic Stew?
Mildred Gillars AKA Axis Sally
Mission - Manual Transmission
Mitch Albom
Money for the New Country
Mosses
Mount Rushmore Is Completed
Mount Rushmore
Mountains Formed by Magma
Mouseketeer Annette
Mrs. Wesley: Learning about Immigration
NAACP
Nancy Pelosi, Lady of Power
Nathan Hale
National Urban League
Native American Dolls
NATO
Neighbors Living Near a Nuclear Power Plant
Nellie Bly - First Female War Correspondent
New Year's Day Traditions
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
Nicaragua - Culture: El Nino Poeta
Noise Pollution Near Home
North America
Oops! What I Meant to Say Was... The Warped Wisdom of Malapropisms
Passing the Tests at Ellis Island
Passive Versus Active Learning
Patience Wright: American Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy
Pennsylvania, the Beginning of Freedom
Peregrine Falcons
Pets that Help - Service Animals
Pioneer African-American Writers
Pizza For Sale
Plateaus and Erosional Mountains
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Population Three Hundred Million
President George W. Bush
Prisoners of War
Protesting the Iraq War
Puerto Rico - Culture
Recognition - Baseball Hall of Fame
Red Summer - A Season of Fear
Remembering September 11th
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
Robert Kimmel Smith
Robert Lawson
Robert Newton Peck
Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main
Sanitary Fairs: Civil War Fundraisers
Sargent Claude Johnson
Scoliosis
September 11 Memorials
Sherman Alexie, Jr.
Simon Fraser: Canadian Adventurer
Simon Fraser: Canadian Adventurer
Sinclair Lewis
Snowboarding
Speech of Promise
Sports Heroes Who Were Immigrants
Stanley and Livingstone
Starting the Day on a Good Note
Stinky Air Pollution and the Great London Smog
Strike One on the World Trade Center
Structure - The Empire State Building
Sudoku History
Synchronized Swimming
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Take Me Out to the Ballgame - The World Series
Tallest of the Tall
Tennis Anyone?
Thanksgiving Day Parade
The 1993 Storm of the Century
The Assassination of President McKinley
The Campaign for the 2008 Presidential Election
The Case of the Disappearing Bats
The Case of the Missing Cat's Eye
The Celebration Continues
The Civil War and Inflation
The Constitutional Convention
The Dust Bowl
The Economy of the Middle Atlantic Region
The Empire State Building
The Fast and Fearless Life of a Jockey
The Final Battle - Yorktown 1781
The First Capitals of the United States
The First Truly American Sport
The First U.S. Women's Rights Movement (1800's)
The Gang's All Here!
The Great Lakes
The Harlem Globetrotters
The Irish Potato Famine
The Kitchen Debate
The Last Monday in May
The Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell
The Loss of the Honeybees
The Magic of Houdini
The Manhattan Project
The Middle Colonies
The Monster of Lake Champlain
The Mysterious Renoir Thief
The Negro Leagues
The Northwest Ordinance
The Oath of Office
The Oozing, Melting Clocks of Surrealism
The Pulitzer Prize
The Quebec Bridge Disaster
The Race to Nome: The 1925 Alaska Serum Run
The Rise and Fall of the Beatles
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918
The Story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The Tango Hits New York
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Unsinkable Titanic
The Wild World of Water Polo
Theodore Roosevelt
They Reached for the Stars and Became One
Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too
Train Bombing in Madrid
Traveling with Your Pet
Treaty of Paris - The Revolutionary War is Over
Tuscarora
Typhoid Mary
USS Constitution
Valley Forge - Winter of 1777-1778
Victoria Woodhull
War in Afghanistan
Washington, D.C.
Watch the Birdie
Water Pollution in the Hudson River: Captain Maher's Story
What Are Time Zones?
What Eggs-actly Is Egg Tempera?
What Is a FICO Score and Why Does It Matter?
What Is Dada?
What Is Paper Maché?
What Is Primitivism?
What Is Sculpture?
What Variety of Pizza Do You Like?
When Man Took Flight
Where Have the Bats Gone?
Where Would We Be Without the Ballpoint Pen?
Why Do Immigrants Come to the United States Today?
Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"?
Why Some Immigrants Went Home
William H. Johnson
William Otter- Street Scholar
Women and Health Care
Women as Citizens
Women Win the Right to Vote
Woodstock
Yearning to Breathe Free-Immigration in the 1890s, Pt. 1
You Switch, We Deliver?
You Want Fuel With That?
(Grades 9-12)
A Costly Oops!
All the News That's Fit to Print - and Some That Isn't
Andrewsarchus: Largest Mammalian Carnivore Ever?
Apolo Anton Ohno
Arthur Miller
Autumn Across America
Battles - Fort Sumter
Connecticut Composer Charles Ives
Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Doctor
E. B. White
Earth Time - Precambrian Time and the Paleozoic Era
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth Blackwell
Energy from Water
Eoin Colfer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flannery O'Connor
Harper Lee
Helen Hunt Jackson Writes for the Native Americans
History of the Empire State Building
If at First You Don't Succeed...The Invasion(s) of Canada
Inventions for Babies
Inventors of the Automobile Engine
J.D. Salinger
John Steinbeck
Joseph Heller
Leaders in Crisis - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leonard Bernstein: Peace and Harmony
Lord Dunmore's War
Lorraine Hansberry
Lune: the American Haiku
Malcolm X
Maya Lin
Misguided Fanatic or Hero? John Brown
No Ordinary Day - 9/11 Hero Noel Sepulveda
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Olive Ann Burns
On The Road With Alice Ramsey
Other Local Governments
Polio and FDR's Disability
Puerto Rico and the National Puerto Rican Day Parade
Rails across America - "Done!" The Last Spike
Ralph Ellison
Rates of Weathering
Red Stick Conflict
Results of the French and Indian War
Robert Kennedy
Robert Lipsyte
Say "Uncle!" — The Strange End of the War of 1812
Seward's Folly
Sharon Creech
Sid Fleischman
Spies for the Confederacy
Stephen Crane
Suriname - History
The "Beat" of a Different Drum - Rebels of the Nifty Fifties
The Merci Train
The Declaration of Independence
The Friendship Train
The Know Nothing Party
The Know Nothing Party
The Long Island Express: The New England Hurricane of 1938
The Need for Speed - The Age of Computers
The North after the Civil War
The United Nations Becomes a Reality
Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars
United States Immigration Laws in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Warriors and Heroes - Native Americans in World War II
Who Wanted to be the First Female Vice-President?
Why Did the Germans Come to America?
Willa Cather
William "Boss" Tweed - Adventures in Justice
William "Boss" Tweed - How to Make Money in Politics
Stories
(no assigned grade level)
Summer Dreams
The Marmalade War
(Grades 9-12)
An Alien Landscape
Jason's Long Ride
The Magi in New York
Unexpected Inspiration
Animals
(no assigned grade level)
Ladybugs
(Grades 3-5)
Animals in Motion
(Grades 6-8)
Gulls
Pale Male & Lola -- Red-Tailed Hawks
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