chicago (ill.)

A coming-of-age story of a Jewish teenage girl living in 1890s Chicago, aspiring to become an artist, but dealing with family problems along the way.

A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

Celaya "Lala" Reyes, traveling from Chicago to Mexico City each summer, draws together stories of her Mexican-American family of shawl-makers, including her papa and Awful Grandmother.

Offers a humorous account of the daily lives of employees at a Chicago advertising agency as they try to cope with the lay offs of colleagues and the possibility of losing their jobs.

When Neecey's father abandons Neecey, her mother, and siblings, the family finds themselves struggling to make ends meet in a housing project, where Neecey is forced to care for her younger brothers and sisters and must find the inner strength to succeed.

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.

Sixth-grader Priya feels left out of things after moving to Chicago from India, but a school project gives her classmates some food for thought.

A memoir in which the author, one of the first African-American women at Yale, shares the story of her life growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and tells how the welfare system saved the family by enabling her and her siblings to receive a good education.

Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.

Forty-one-year-old divorcee Dee Dee Dupree, a Chicago radio disc jockey, searches for true love while also trying to help her best friend Sharon who is ready to admit to being a lesbian, and Jade, another friend whose marriage is falling apart.