italian americans

This Italian-American Newbery Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Shapely seventeen-year-old Angel Cassonetti, who lives with her younger siblings and single mother in a house at the Jersey Shore, finds it hard to stay away from ex-boyfriend Joey Sardone.

When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

Presents essays, articles, and other writings on the experiences of Italian immigrants in America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and includes profiles of several famous Italian Americans.

Catherine's dream of someday moving beyond her life in Little Italy is jeopardized by her older brother's ambition to join the local mobsters and her own involvement with some unsavory characters, leading them both into using cocaine.

Reprint of a 1964 novel which tells the story of Lucia Santa, an Italian immigrant who comes to New York in search of a better life for her family, only to find herself trapped in Hell's Kitchen, trying to raise six children, and losing them to romance, the mafia, and the lure of the American dream.

A family of Italian immigrants in twentieth-century Boston work hard to attain their dream of owning a farm in the country, but their son Joey cannot bear to leave the city.

For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives, Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true identity.