urban youth

The author examines how and why African-American, Latino, and Vietnamese high school students succeed despite limited opportunities, and focuses on what influences success rather than failure in urban schools.

Melissa King recounts how her passion for basketball helped her survive life in inner-city Chicago, taught her about race, class, gender, religion, and love, and helped her learn who she really was.

A resource for librarians to assist with improvement of school and public library programs that are utilized by urban teenagers, covering the importance of transcending stereotypes; updating library services; incorporating street literature and social networking; building a useful library Web site, and more.

Bob Muzikowski describes how he and a group of volunteers built three urban Little League programs which have made a difference for hundreds of at-risk kids in Chicago.

A collection of essays written by teenagers that discuss how what they think about the violence they see in their everyday lives.