The Great Migration

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Monday, March 16, 2026

Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls

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Anyone interested in history is sure to be riveted by the story of Robert Smalls,  a little-known enslaved African-American sailor who becam...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Programming Spotlight: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Percussion

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From left to right: Ms. Leibusor, Special Education teacher, Ms. Carter, Math teacher, and Mike Ramsey, Percussionist and Music educator (ph...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Welcome Back! and Student Poetry Published!

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  Welcome back!  We've been back for a month and it went by so fast!  Before we dive in to sharing recommendations and programming news,...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Programming Spotlight: Joelle Wellington and Making Music at NYPL

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 Photos and collages by Jamila Abdulrashid The Blonde Dies First   . . . since when?  Well, since author Joelle Wellington wrote her young a...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Fighting to Belong! Volume 1: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History from the 1700s Through the 1800s by Amy Chu and Alexander Chang illustrated by Louie Chin

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“Why aren’t there more books that introduce AANHPI history to students?” Sammy, Tiana, Joe and Padmini have a school project due on AAPI his...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis

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Rosalyn "Ross" is tired of living with just her mother and her aunt. But that comes with the territory when you live in a multi-ge...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Amulet by Kazu Kibuish

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After losing their father, Emily and Navin are thrust into a world of magic and fantasy where they must save their mother from strange creat...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Gachiakuta by Kei Urana

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“People turn things into trash so easily.  Then those things are treated as filthy.. . and no one ever finds worth in them again.  The same ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert

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Most of our students will tell you they know all about Rosa Parks, but it’s likely that most of Passages’ readers, including adults, could l...
Friday, April 25, 2025

The System by Ryan Gattis

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When gang member Dreamer is framed for murder alongside his friend Wizard, who is the actual killer, Dreamer faces a difficult decision: bet...