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Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi

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Pablo is in debt,  has left college, and is working nights at a bodega when mega popstar Leanna Smart comes in to buy some snacks.  She...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Little Peach by Peggy Kern

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After running away from her drug-addicted mother and abusive stepfather, Michelle finds herself all alone at NYC’s Port Authority bus te...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, Illustrated by Caanan White

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103 years ago African Americans in New York could not simply join up as soldiers in the Federal military. When African American men...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Back in the Days by Jamel Shabazz

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Get ready to enter a time warp as you open this book and step into New York City in the 1980s. Photographer Shabazz, who grew up in Brooklyn...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Air Down Here: True Tales from a South Bronx Boyhood by Gil C. Alicea with Carmine DeSena

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“The air in my neighborhood is harder. It’s more thicker, harder to breathe in, harder to see through.” So begins one of the only known t...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Guest Blog Post: Kendra by Coe Booth

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Kendra is the story of a teenage girl who falls in love with a boy from her school. On the surface it sounds like a typical love story but ...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Guest Post: With Their Eyes Edited by Annie Thoms

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Just four blocks from Ground Zero, Stuyvesant High School students witnessed the horrors of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trad...