The author tells the story of her struggles to reconcile her ghetto background and the world of private schools, wealthy classmates, and important jobs offered to her because of her academic talent.
Kenji Jasper recounts his efforts to learn more about the grandfather he barely knew, describing his journey through three generations of stories that defined his family and himself.
When Margaret's best friend Maizon returns from boarding school and joins her in the eighth grade, they try to resume their friendship while dealing with personal problems and watching their Brooklyn neighborhood undergo changes.
Eight months after the car accident that nearly claimed her life and caused her to lose her memory, Ember Leferrier launches an effort to find out exactly who she used to be. What she discovers shocks her, and suggests she was a very different person than what her friends and family are trying to suggest--leading her to wonder what she was really hiding from them.
After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.
While spending the summer in Brooklyn with her mother's former schoolmate, Sophie, a sheltered English teenager, makes new and unlikely friends and finds a new side to her formerly "dull and passive" personality.
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.
Presents the final volume in a trilogy of memoirs by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago in which she uses the turmoil of her affair with Ulvi, an older Turkish man, to explore racism, sexism, feminism, and the value of education in her life.
