In 1903, 10-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
In a prequel to "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, Vito Corleone, in 1933 New York, tries to steer his son Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny, at seventeen, wants to follow his father into the real family business.
Enza and Ciro meet as teenagers despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart in the Italian Alps. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America, leaving behind a bereft Enza. Unbeknownst to one another, they both build lives in America, until fate intervenes and reunites them, but not before Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I.
An autobiographical account of the life of Mafia Boss Joseph Bonanno, discussing his childhood, illegal entry into the United States, his involvement in the New York underworld, and other related topics.
Examines the origins and appeal of the Mafia in popular culture, how the image of the Italian gangster developed, traces the evolution of the gangster in film, and how that persona affects Italian-Americans.
In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.
