brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Contains three stories about women coping with the hardships of living in the ghetto, including twenty-four-year-old twins Sugar and Candy Cane who have a love-hate relationship; Tamara and Tamia, daughters of a gangster, whose lives are threatened by a family secret; and twins Paris and Porsha who take it upon themselves to avenge the death of their sister.

Angel, Cream, and Sydni, three Brooklyn women who are familiar with life on the streets, learn lessons about love, money, and what it means to stand on their own.

Contains three stories about women coping with the hardships of living in the ghetto, including Lyric Chrenshaw, who relies on her looks to get what she wants, Juicy Brown, a welfare recipient trying to deal with a scandalous rumor, and Precious Paine, a hustler who has to choose between her business and a man.

At the request of her sixth grade teacher, Edwina Rose Sachs records events in the lives of her Polish immigrant family and their friends living in Brooklyn in the early 1900s.

Seventeen-year-old Joseph, having grown up tightly regulated by his mother, eagerly puts in his applications for college, not realizing his mom intends to accompany him to school.

With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live.

Fourteen-year-old Willy, slow in school and ridiculed by other boys in his Brooklyn neighborhood, faces another dull summer with his mother until tutoring from an older girl and other special experiences help him develop a sense of self-confidence.

In 1920s' Brooklyn, Abel and friend Hilda try to find a husband for Abel's doctor sister to marry.

A novelization of the Disney movie in which Izzy Daniels, training to be a boxing champion like his father, is distracted from his goal when he becomes involved with his neighbor Mary's Double Dutch jump rope team.