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Thanks for keeping up with us in 2011! We'll be back with what's good in 2012 on Jan. 3.

from left to right: Lauren Adelman, MoMA Educator; P. showing off her sculpture; Ben Petty, Passages Academy Art Teacher; Alan Calpe, Mo...

Nic Sheff and his father, David Sheff, appeared on the addiction/recovery literary scene in January 2009, when they published Tweak and Beau...

What does a typical day look like for the hundreds of teens awaiting sentencing on Rikers Island? What happens behind all that barbed wire a...

Can you imagine being dragged out of your bed in the middle of the night, getting handcuffed and driven to a teenage boot camp, completely...

This book is the perfect antidote to every boring, poorly contextualized, and heavily sanitized textbook telling of our nation’s birth force...

One of our graphic novel readers has been asking for the next book to this series for some time now, so I decided to see what the buzz was a...

Dear Readers, We would like to invite you to join us at the best party in NYC tomorrow night, the Desk Set's Biblioball . Who: Librari...

Welcome back to library team member and blog writer Claudio Leon! He flew home from Mexico yesterday after attending the FIL conference tha...

Yesterday, two extremely talented teaching artists from The New Victory Theate r visited two groups of students at our Boys Town site. Stud...

Today marks the last of our school trips to see Untapped, a high-energy music and dance performance at the New Victory Theater in Times Squa...

It only takes a pencil and paper to create artwork that moves, inspires, and wows. Nothing flashy here -- just some really talented, locked-...

Beauty is a loaded concept. Defined by culture, media, and personal aesthetic, and constantly shifting, we all seem to know it when we see ...

Know how to draw? Tired of the same old tips? Well, you’re in luck! Unlike other drawing books out there, Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics doe...

It’s 7am and Devon is lying on the couch instead of getting ready for high school when her mom comes home from her graveyard shift. Devon s...

Writers’ block? Stuck searching for the perfect rhyme? For poets and lyricists alike, this has been the go-to book in the library to complet...

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens , Sean Covey offers some insight into how to live a more productive and meaningful life. As we m...

Need advice on dealing with life’s ups and downs? Sugar-coated aphorisms and uplifting stories not for you? Crap may be just what you’ve ...

Passages Academy Libraries couldn't be happier to have a new librarian on our team. Please meet Regan Schwartz, who has re-ignited Pass...

Best parent-teacher conferences yet! On Wednesday and Friday, families arriving to meet with teachers picked up a free indestructible and w...