Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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-- Hero 2 doors down2016., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: F Rob Edition: 1st ed., February 2016. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2015., Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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2015., Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Historical FIC Gansworth Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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2013., Arthur A. Levine Books Call No: SET F GAN Edition: First edition. Availability:9 of 10 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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2013., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books Call No: FIC GAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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2015., Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England.
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[2020], Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: One hundred years before Rosa Parks took her stand, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings tried to board a streetcar in New York City on her way to church. Though there were plenty of empty seats, she was denied entry, assaulted, and threatened. Lizzie decided to fight back. She told her story, took her case to court—where future president Chester Arthur represented her—and won! Her victory was the first recorded in the fight for equal rights on public transportation, and Lizzie's case set a precedent.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Calkins Creek Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Picture book presenting the true story of African American equal rights activist Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings Graham. Born a free woman in New York City, Lizzie was late for church one day when she tried to board a street car and was denied a seat due to her skin color, even though there were plenty open. Lizzie took her case to court and won, paving the way for future women to take a stand, or a seat, for the civil rights movement.
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2005., Juvenile, Harry N. Abrams Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School.
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2005., Juvenile, Harry N. Abrams Call No: 974.7 1 00496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Maritcha grew up in the late 1800s in New York City until her family had to flee amidst the Draft Riots. They settled in Providence, Rhode Island. At age fifteen, Maritcha had to overcame prejudice and eventually was the first black person to graduate from the high school.
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2005., Juvenile, Harry N. Abrams Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School.
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2005., Juvenile, Harry N. Abrams Call No: 973.8 BOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: ROMANCE F THO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the proteÌgeÌ of her father, a renowned composer.
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2007., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Historical FIC Doctorow Edition: 2007 Random House trade pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Weaves authentic historical figures with fictional characters, like black pianist, Coalhouse who as an immigrant experiences racial injustice. The three families which are portrayed in the narrative represent three distinct social classes and are unnamed. When Coalhouse's rage reaches the boiling point he becomes a terrorist.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City, still worried about Marcel, his good friend who he left behind, and surprised to find bigotry in America, too.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: B JENNINGS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Elizabeth Jennings who won a major victory against a New York City streetcar company, a first step in the process of desegregating public transportation in Manhattan.
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By Nolan, Hanc2006., Pre-adolescent, Harcourt Call No: Historical FIC Nolan Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
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By Nolan, Han2012, c2006., Adolescent, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HISTORICAL F NOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
