bronx (new york, n.y.)

After graduating from his fifth grade class in the Bronx, Enoch looks forward to spending time with his best friend Spence, but must instead cope with grief, gang violence, and the arrival from Puerto Rico of his half-brother Miguel.

Mary Childers discusses how her mother's many failed relationships and her childhood spent in poverty influenced the choices she has made and her goals in life.

A memoir of an orphaned young girl, raised by her two unmarried uncles, that explores the mystery of family and the secret enchantments of childhood.

Set in an Irish American neighborhood at the end of World War II, Billy Lynch's friends and family have gathered to mourn him and reflect on the mysteries of love, fate and the terrible result of lies told to spare a friend pain.

A woman who grew up in the blighted Bronx during the 1960s offers a memoir of poverty, abuse, and the welfare system, describing a world of urban decay, rampant crime, race riots, white flight, alcohol and drugs, and her own difficult struggle to achieve self-sufficiency.

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

Tells the story of Milton Daub's adventure in the terrible storm, known ever after as the Blizzard of '88.

In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.