urban renewal

After her mother accepts a job as the star of an international dance tour and will be gone for the summer, fourteen-year-old Almudena learns she'll be spending her summer with her father Xavier, a man she's never met. Moving into a dilapidated brownstone, Almudena learns Xavier only speaks Spanish and that she's expected to help him renovate the brownstone into apartments for others in their neighborhood. Though their relationship starts out rocky, Almudena slowly gets to know her father and others in the Latino neighborhood he lives in and comes to terms with where she fits into the mix.

When a major corporation tries to shut down a beloved tea shop, Clementine Chan and Danny Mok work together to save their Chinatown community, but when they fall hard for their cause--and each other--the truth about their secret online personas comes out.

"In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community"--Provided by publisher.

"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--Provided by publisher.

As a new recruit of the Dora Milaje on her very first mission outside of Wakanda, Okoye is sent to Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn that's experiencing extreme gentrification. Spending time with the other young people of Brownsville, Okoye soon learns about the plans of Stella Adams, a wealthy, powerful real estate mogul who is behind most of the gentrification in the neighborhood, but she is shocked to discover Adams's hand in a more sinister plot: one involving a drug called PyroBliss that seems to be consuming Brownsville. While her captain, Aneka, and her King, T'chaka, refuse to take action, Okoye is conflicted on what to do. She wants to help her new friends but doesn't want to jeopardize their diplomatic mission, and Okoye is forced to make decision between her duty to her king and country and helping those that need her the most.

"Sixth-grader Wes Henderson sets out to save the Oaks, the neighborhood where he's lived his whole life, from being sold to a real estate developer"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a framework for assessing American cities, looking at the factors that work to make neighborhoods safe or unsafe, impoverished or renewed; and discussing the role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, development money, and diversity.

"Sixth-grader Wes Henderson sets out to save the Oaks, the neighborhood where he's lived his whole life, from being sold to a real estate developer"--Provided by publisher.

"When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding. But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick's changing landscape, or lose it all"--Back cover.

Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.