bronx (new york, n.y.)

Two sisters growing up in the Bronx find themselves involved in dangerous and exciting romances that show them a new world of elegance, drugs, and heartache.

Presents 115 short essays about life in New York's South Bronx--not only the drugs, violence, gangs, police, and misrepresentations by the media, but also the positive outlook on life, the hopefulness, and the quest for success.

High school teacher Ric Klass chronicles his experiences teaching underprivileged students in the Bronx, discussing challenges with the school board, teenagers, and his own anger.

Chronicles the experiences of the fire fighters working in South Bronx, New York.

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

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.

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.

As he seeks a place to hide, Marcus, a boy from the Islands now living in the Bronx, tries to figure out how he became involved in the stabbing of a fellow student.

Recalls a certain New York City boyhood in the 1930s, through the eyes of the child himself and then him as an adult trying to reconstruct the past.