Depicts the joys and hardships experienced by a Muslim family that immigrates to New York City from Alexandria, Egypt, in the hope of making a better life for themselves.
Jessica is troubled when she learns that the Nutcracker School of Ballet could be closed, but her problems double when she tries to keep a stray kitten at the school until the crowded animal shelters can find a place for one more.
Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, the boys are very similar at heart.
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.
A story in poetry and prose, in which fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
Amelia Lauren Moyer Pe?rez, a young girl living in New York with her brother Gabriel, and her mother, a teacher from the Dominican Republic, tells about the different activities sheenjoys with her many friends. Presented in English and Spanish.
