In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.

In this alternate version of 1898 New York City, where ghosts are common household nuisances, thirteen-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt and her cousin, Alice, work together to battle the fierce spirits that are threatening their family and trying to force them out of their house.

A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

In 1897 New York City, a young girl who knows that Santa Claus exists sets out to prove her case to unbelievers by writing a letter to the editor of the New York Sun.