bronx (new york, n.y.)

Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

Sixteen-year-old Tyrell, accustomed to being the man of the family, has mixed feelings when his father comes home from jail, but he knows he cannot just go back to being a little boy, especially after losing his younger brother to foster care, getting involved with drug dealers, learning about his mother's infidelity, and developing a relationship with Jasmine.

Twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, sharing a deep bond that has helped them survive the loss of their parents and the country's political upheaval, but when they both fall for the same woman, their bond is broken and the two go their separate ways, until a medical crisis reunites them.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Rose Meadows, hired on as assistant to German immigrant Professor Mitwisser in Depression era New York, soon finds herself filling many roles in the chaotic household, and things become further complicated when she becomes involved with the Mitwisser's equally eccentric benefactor, James A'bair.

Patrick Riley, a New York City cop, wants nothing more than to let his son, Scooter, have the same kind of childhood he had growing up in the Bronx, but in the wake of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy's assassinations and the rising sense of turmoil, Patrick begins to wonder if his family would be better off living somewhere safer.

In 1963, when thirteen-year-old Fiona runs away from home and ends up reunited with her former classmate Yolanda in an all-black neighborhood of the Bronx, their interracial friendship gives rise to both comfort and controversy.

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 transforms his world.

The story of an Italian-American family spanning three generations, beginning in the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. The tragic death of a daughter, one of eight-year-old twins, will define the lives of everyone in this extended family and change them as surely as their Bronx neighborhood is changing.

Marvin Korman recounts the memories he has of growing up in the Bronx and working in his father's Jewish bakery.

A graphic novel that chronicles the childhood of Geoffrey Canada, describing how he learned to survive on the violent streets of the South Bronx.