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c2023., Pre-adolescent, Lightbox Learning Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History makers: past and present.Summary Note: In 2018, at the age of 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the younges woman ever selected to Congress. Alexandria has faced many obstacles as a ppolitidcian. She is young, belongs to a visible minority, and comes from a working-class background. Find out more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this title.
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1999, c1998., Vintage Books Call No: B Santiago Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Esmeralda Santiago discusses what it was like to grow up as a Puerto Rican teenager in New York and to go against the wishes of her over-protective mother and discover her true identity.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The diary of a twelve-year-old girl living in New York City in 1912, with sidebars describing the author/illustrator's life and family and significant events of the year and the city.
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-- Battle for room three hundred fourteenBy Boland, Ed2016., Grand Central Pub. Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed.: February 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "[Relates the story of Ed Boland who,] in a fit of idealism, ... left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them."--Provided by publisher.
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c2012., Juvenile, Eldorado Ink Call No: 641.5 092 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Top chefsSummary Note: This book is an introduction to the life and career of Bobby Flay, who, in 1991, opened his first restaurant, Mesa Grill, which became the cornerstone of a budding culinary empire.
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2010., Hyperion Call No: 921 MURRAY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.
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c2010., Hyperion Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.
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c2010, Hyperion Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.
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c2010., Hyperion Call No: Guide B Murray Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes how she struggled as the child of two drug addicts, and was homeless at age fifteen but still managed to graduate from high school in two years, and win a "New York Times" scholarship that took her to Harvard University.
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-- She persisted: Clara Lemlich2021., Primary, Philomel Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: She persistedSummary Note: "A biography of Clara Lemlich, who stood up for the rights of workers in clothing factories"--Provided by publisher.
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2006., Riverhead Books Call No: HI-INT B MCB Edition: Riverhead trade paperback 10th anniversary edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity.
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1997., Riverhead Books Call No: B Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity.
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c2012., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: CRIME & PUNISHMENT NF MOO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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[2012]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: B MOORE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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1997., Vintage Books Call No: B Thomas Edition: 30th anniversary ed., Vintage Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: An autobiographical account of a young man's trip from Spanish Harlem to Sing Sing and back into freedom again.
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[2017], Adolescent, Zest Books Call No: HI-INT 363.37 SEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book examines the events leading up to the fire, including a close look at how fashion and the desire for consumer goods---driven in part by the excess of the Gilded Age---created an unsustainable culture of greed.
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-- 1st responder2021., Pegasus Books Call No: MEMOIR NF MUR Edition: 1st Pegasus Bks. cloth ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows the author's journey to become an EMT, describing the hardships, trauma, grief, uncertainty, and dark humor of the job, and discusses her work during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis. .
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c2005., Scribner Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Creative Editions Call No: 940.54 03 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A regiment of African-American soldiers from Harlem journeys across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, inspiring a continent with their brand of jazz music"--Provided by publisher.
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2014., Juvenile, Creative Editions Call No: 940.54 LEWIS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Picture and rhyming book exploring the history of the Harlem Hellfighters, black Americans from Harlem who fought in World War I under the leadership of bandleader and lieutenant James Reese Europe.