Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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c2009, Pre-adolescent, Dial Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
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c2009., Speak Call No: FIC GRATZ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
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2010., Pre-adolescent, Speak Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
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By Avi2015., Pre-adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: FIC AVI Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1951 Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old Pete Collison spends his time following the Giants baseball team and trying to be a detective. Then the FBI shows up accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, and Pete's classmates turn against him. Pete decides to uncover the truth, but worries it could put his family's livelihood and freedom at risk.
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By Avi, 1937-2015., Pre-adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--Provided by publisher.
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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: Fic PARK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During the 1950s, young Maggie struggles to will her beloved Brooklyn Dodgers to a victory in the World Series and wishes that her friend Jim, a soldier in Korea, would answer her letters.
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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: SPORTS FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During the 1950s, young Maggie struggles to will her beloved Brooklyn Dodgers to a victory in the World Series and wishes that her friend Jim, a soldier in Korea, would answer her letters.
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2021., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: HISTORICAL F GRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it--for herself and for generations to come"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F ELL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Peachtree Publishers Call No: E [Fic] Uhl Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A hearing boy and his deaf parents from Brooklyn enjoy the rides, food, and sights of 1930's Coney Island where the father longs to know about how everything sounds and his son tries to interpret the noisy surroundings through sign language and a wealth of new words learned from a trip to the library.
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2003., Pre-adolescent, Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Harcourt Young Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Following a prophecy of a former resident of their Brooklyn alley, two boys discover an underground passage behind their houses.