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On Tuesday, May 30  and Wednesday, May 31, the library hosted mindful coloring workshops led by Passages’  school psychologist Rebecca Fern...

On Wednesday, May 24, Belmont’s Rising Ground group visited the New York Public Library’s gorgeous new teen space at their SNFL branch and h...

  Dani has never been in love and doesn’t know if it can ever happen to her.  Prince is the most popular guy at school and has had a crush o...

                                                                           image credit: BAM website Ms. Bespalova and Ms. Ikawa in collabor...

  On Wednesday, April 26th Belmont’s St. John’s group had front row seats for BAM’s annual celebration of poetry and hip-hop called Word. So...

  All Passages students -  secure, limited and non-secure -  now have access to Duolingo. The free application allows students to use their...

  This excellent and important guide entitled Connections has been around for a long time and this new edition is the best one yet.  It has...

Congratulations to our student authors just published by 826NYC in the anthology No Matter What I Should Be Myself Fully .  Out this week a...

You probably know who Rosa Parks was, and it’s likely you’ve also heard of Claudette Colvin.  But did  you know the two women knew each othe...

Finally they’ve split themselves apart. The Hulk and Bruce Banner are now two separate beings able to go their separate ways - at least that...

This is a well-rounded look at data security written on at a middle school reading level explaining how data breaches happen and how readers...

New York City mayor Eric Adams wrote a note prefacing this account of the towering 19th century figure Frederick Douglass making the book es...

Mike Ramsey at Bronx Hope 12/22/22 photo credit: Jamila Abdulrashid Happy 2023! While we are looking forward to what’s ahead in  the new ye...

After ten years, everyone has forgotten about Jess’ mom. The media no longer covers  what happened back then,  and everyone has gone back to...

For the reader looking for a very basic understanding of cryptocurrency, this book provides just that. Written at a 6th grade reading level,...

This month students at Belmont participated in a New Victory residency program that brought two extraordinary teaching artists from the thea...

A new take on an original… Badgirl? Anti-heroine? You’re never sure where Harley Quinn stands on the spectrum of good - bad. Even in this re...

How did one image of the revolutionary leader Che Guevara’s face become so popular?  Students who have seen the iconic image - originally a ...

“Aight, so boom.  Check it.”  So begins When We Make It narrated by 8th grader Sarai, who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn.   It’s the late nine...

Have you ever been curious about venomous sea creatures? Well you’re in luck!  Don’t Mess With Me is filled with tidbits of information abo...