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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, Ali, his sister, and their neighbors stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one of them gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Madeline Sterling moves into her old house, CIA analyst Beth Bradford, who once had it all—idyllic neighborhood, perfect family, meaningful career, becomes obsessed with this woman, believing that she is somehow tied to Iranian intelligence in a cul-de-sac where everyone is keeping secrets.
7) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
8) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A vivid and funny novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn.
11) Harlem at four
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two stories about Harlem; the first chronicles the adventures of a four-year-old Black girl named Harlem, and the second describes the history of the New York neighborhood of Harlem and the start of America's Great Black Migration.
12) Unfadeable
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Secretly living on her own, graffiti artist Bella “Unfadeable” Fades must learn how to bring her community together to fight back when corrupt people try to ruin her Indianapolis neighborhood.
Author
Series
Zara's rules volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When neighborhood queen bee Zara is threatened by new girl Naomi, Zara decides to break a Guinness World Record to get everyone to notice her again, until she realizes that maybe sharing her crown wouldn’t be so bad.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Astral is a huge, rose-colored apartment building in the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. For decades, it has been the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quick and his wife, Luz, who raised two children in their rambling top-floor apartment. However, the aging Astral's glory is beginning to fade- and as the building crumbles around him, a series of events forces Harry to face the reality of his own fractured...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On November 22, 1963, the First Lady accompanied her husband to Dallas, Texas, dressed in a pink Chanel-style suit. Much of her wardrobe came from the New York boutique Chez Ninon, where a young seamstress, named Kate, worked behind the scenes to craft the outfits. When the pink suit Kate created becomes iconic for all the wrong reasons, her already fragile world, divided between the excess and artistry of Chez Ninon and the traditional values of...
Author
Series
Outlaw saints volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
17) American meteor
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face...
18) You matter to me
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Adopted from the shelter, Biscuit the dog realizes that some people in the neighborhood are scared by his owner because he is Black and wishes they would see his human as he does--with love"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
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