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The morning after Will’s brother, Shawn, is shot and killed, Will steps onto the elevator with a gun tucked into his pants, knowing wha...

The Great Migration: An American Story is a picture book collecting the sixty panels Lawrence painted over seventy years ago to tell the...

Opening with the pivotal and devastating night of the Gatumba massacre, Uwiringiyimana brings the reader into the perilous moment of ha...

A must read for all Passages Academy staff, A Stone of Hope is the story of former student Jim St. Germain, from his impoverished chil...

Seventeen-year old Justyce McAllister’s ex-girlfriend, Melo, is too drunk to drive her Benz home at 3am and Justyce knows it.  Justyce...

The Girl Meets Boy Inn is infamous for all of the murders that took place in the mansion-turned-hotel. Stories float around town about...

Passing through customs in New York City’s JFK airport, teenage Fabiola and her mother are separated.  Not understanding her mother’s...

Ishmael Beah by Sarah Stacke.  Image from www.themoth.org Best known for his experiences as a child soldier in the memoir A Long Way G...

The down-to-earth star of Precious strikes a conversational tone and shares her life story so far.  Growing up in Harlem in a family d...

The title says it all: who among us wouldn’t be fascinated by the origins of the first free black settlement in colonial America?  Whi...

We are looking forward to another school year of good reads! We will resume posting our reviews and recommendations of the best texts for e...

We're taking a little hiatus for the summer and looking forward to returning with reviews and programming news after Labor Day.  Happy S...

Jace has finally escaped. He is on his way to join his brother Christian because only Christian can understand what Jace has been through...

Plutonium is illegal to buy anywhere in the United States, but some Americans carry it inside their pacemaker batteries.  Bananas a...

Students exploring dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History yesterday.  Photo: Jessica Fenster-Sparber How did the universe ...

Imagine that one day your country decides to incarcerate you and your entire family. The crime? Your ethnicity. If your answer is fight...

This handsome, full-color comic tells Andersen’s original tale with gorgeous illustration.  The lettering is small and the text is mini...

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

This cartoon-y adaptation of Homer’s epic poem jettisons the poetry to make room for silliness and gorgeously color-saturated illustr...

Starr Carter is one person in her neighborhood, a place she reluctantly refers to as “the ghetto,” and another person at school, an expen...