bronx (new york, n.y.)

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Tails of the Bronx

a tale of the Bronx
1991
In their search for a group of missing cats, a group of children in the Bronx encounters the problems of homelessness firsthand.

The lethal gorilla

2001
P.C. and Mackenzie investigate when a scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park dies from a dose of gorilla blood.

Efrain's secret

2010
Ambitious high school senior and honor student Efrain Rodriguez makes some questionable choices in pursuit of his dream to escape the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League college.

The diary of Latoya Hunter

my first year in junior high
1993
Presents the diary of twelve-year-old Latoya Hunter as she goes through her first year of junior high in the Bronx.

Panther baby

a life of rebellion and reinvention
2012
The author chronicles his journey from radical Black Panther to his stint at Rikers Island prison, from his awakening while incarcerated at Leavenworth to his rise to chair of Columbia University's School of the Arts film division.

Deep in the mountains

an encounter with Zhu Qizhan
2007
When Tony gets in trouble near his parents' restaurant in the Bronx, his parents send him to live with and work for his uncle in Shanghai for the summer. There he meets and takes lessons from the Chinese painter Zhu Qizhan.

The diary of Latoya Hunter

my first year in junior high
1992
Presents the diary of twelve-year-old Latoya Hunter as she goes through her first year of junior high school in the Bronx.

Don't talk to me about the war

2008
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and his increasing awareness of the war in Europe transform his world.

A contract with God and other tenement stories

a graphic novel
2006
Presents a republication of the graphic novel first published in 1978 that depicts the lives and dreams of a group of people living in a Bronx tenement.

Dropsie Avenue

the neighborhood : a graphic novel
2006
A black-and-white graphic novel chronicle of the rise, decline, and rebirth of a neighborhood in the South Bronx over the course of more than one hundred years.

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