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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...

There is little on earth to rival the sheer majesty and destruction of a volcano.  They are a fact of life for so many people (did you ...

Stunning photographs liberally illustrate The Wolf Almanac , a detailed and well-researched overview of all things wolf - from their bi...

Can you tell the difference between The Green Lantern and The Green Arrow, or Mister Terrific and Mister Mxyzptlk?  You may be in need o...

Middle school students at Bronx Hope met author Torrey Maldonado yesterday and were captivated by his charm, his energy and his childhood...

From eighteen year-old Michaela DePrince comes a memoir which will be of interest to students seeking true stories of survival and triu...

Raawwwr!   Papertoy Monsters came to life inside three of our libraries last week at Crossroads on Monday and at Horizon and Be...

While almost all of our students know what the word “bootleg” means in contemporary slang, few, if any, know of prohibition, the eigh...

Ashley Rhodes-Courter has met the President of the United States, spoken in front of groups of hundreds of people around the country,...

Vicious: True Stories by Teens About Bullying Edited by Hope Vanderberg Bullying seems to be a universal experience to the students...

While desperately trying to discover the secrets of the universe outside of himself, a boy called Ari stumbles upon the secrets within ...

What will the Bronx be like in 2035?  In this posthumously published novel, Walter Dean Myers takes readers on a journey into a vision...

Chess Rumble is the story of a young teen named Marcus who, after the death of his sister and the absence of his father, finds himself u...

“Miss, what kind of dog is it that has those wrinkles/a purple tongue/lion fur/any number of interesting or odd characteristics?” These...

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...