Winter, born into a wealthy drug-dealing family in the Brooklyn ghetto, grows up thinking of herself as the queen of the world, but everything comes crashing down when her father is arrested and all their belongings confiscated by the government.
Maggie Brooklyn Sinclair, who works after school as a dog-walker, looks into a case of kidnapped dogs, even though it means possibly helping Ivy, her ex-best friend, to help recover her rescue dog, Kermit.
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.
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.
Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him.
Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.
Kate, having been sent back to a group home after living with her foster parents for a year, feels sad and lonely and struggles to stay strong and true to herself after getting involved in an abusive and controlling relationship with Percy, a shady young man.
A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Memoir of the author's life growing up as an overachiever in an underpriviledged family, chronicling the blessed relationship she forged with her mother after her father deserted the family.
