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Engaging short stories written in African American voices for teens are always in demand and not always easy to find.  Enter Sharon...

Sanger Rainsford is a celebrated hunter from New York City.  He travels the world in search of big game.  When he falls off a yacht in ...

The journey to become a doctor is not an easy path for anyone, let alone for a young person growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood sur...

Bizarre sports initiation rituals, dating, fathers, brothers - the list of topics expounded on in this nonfiction collection goes on an...

For Passages Academy it seems that Latino History Month and our ELA short story curricular unit are destined to occur at the same tim...

For young people who were not born yet or may have been newly born, and for older readers who want to remember or enrich their memor...

Welcome back!  I hope you had a wonderful summer.  I’m excited to start the new year and this new year has brought a new principal at Pa...

Dear Readers, Happy summer!  We will continue to provide school library services this summer, but we'll be taking a break from posting...

Autumn is the only girl on her high school wrestling team, and she’s good.   A younger boy, Roland, would like to get to know her bet...

From the early days of brute force football to the contemporary high-flying dynasties, Fourth Down and Inches provides readers with a...

Acknowledging in his introduction that the graffiti scene is split into two groups:  illegal sprayers and legal sprayers, and noting ...

Which titles are the most popular and essential reference print items in your library?  In ours, they seem to be: 1) Hip Hop Rhym...

Which are the most popular and essential biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies in your collection?   Here are Passages Academy Libr...

What do you want to do before you die?   Candy Chang contextualizes this question in New Orleans after the storm, the wake of t...

Julia DiVino has a plan for her future and it does not involve the gang life.  Julia has managed, with her best friend Q for support, t...

Seventeen-year-old Antonio pleads guilty to his abusive father’s murder; whether he did it or not is unclear, but he’ll still have to s...

For students who have had a productive career exploration experience and an idea of where their interests lie, College Board’s Book of ...

John Lewis grew up trying to save the souls of the chickens on his family’s farm in Pike County, Alabama. He ended up on Capitol Hill....

    Coe Booth, beloved author of Tyrell , Bronxwood and Kendra , took some time out of her busy schedule to answer a few questions ...