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 Holidays can be difficult when one is separated from loved ones.  With that in mind, we librarians have been collaborating with colleagu...

A hapless snail has freed the evil Lich from his bag of holding and he is on a mission to destroy everyone and everything in the Land o...

At least once a week I have a student ask for a book about the Illuminati, or I hear them intensely talking about the group’s existence...

Tariq, a sixteen-year-old African-American teen, goes to the store for his mother to buy some milk and picks up a Snickers bar for his l...

For a student who needs immediate answers, or a teacher looking for a slim volume to read through with students during a non-fiction EL...

Scholastic Ultimate Guide to Football by James Buckley Jr. Did you know that passing was not allowed in American football until 1906? ...

35.3 million people are living with HIV around the world, according to UNAIDS, cited on HIVaware.org.uk .  35.3 million .  Asking any...

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...