Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: HOLIDAY E JEN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: Gold Fiction OSBORNE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
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c2015, Primary, Carolrhoda Books Call No: E NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award HonorSummary Note: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Magic Wagon Call No: [FIC] Genre: Historical fiction Availability:7 of 7 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Maximilian lands on a ship of Irish immigrants bound for Ellis Island, where he meets a young girl named Ashling who tells her family's story and smuggles him through immigration, as well as a friendly pelican that takes him on a flight around New York Harbor in search of his damaged time machine.
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By Avi, 1937-2015., Algonquin Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. 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?.
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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F MAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Fifteen-time Emmy Award winner and Pura Belpre honoree Sonia Manzano examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. Through these snapshot stories, we are reminded that regardless of any tumultuous times, we are all forever connected in our humanity"--From the publisher's web site.
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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: TEEN FIC KON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out--he's completely out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night...As their lives become more and more entangled in the AIDS epidemic that's laying waste to their community...whatever Micah and C.J. have between them will be tested, stretched, and strained"--
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[2010], p2009., Pre-adolescent, Playaway Digital Audio : [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC Call No: F KON Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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c2008, Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: REALISTIC F BUD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.
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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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[2019]., Juvenile, Dutton Children's Books Call No: REALISTIC F ZOB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
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-- Wonderstruck.2011., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: FAN FIC SEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.