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Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Junie, Celia, and Danielle, three ethnically diverse high schoolers in Brooklyn, form a friendship while cooking dinners together and helping one another sort through their romantic entanglements.
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the Eighties and Nineties, Wesley Evans, better known as Ruby, was Brooklyn's wealthiest, longest reigning kingpin. Accomplishing all it took to make history, including rubbing elbows with celebrities and expanding his businesses out of state, he avoided all the bounties put on his head and NYPD's handcuffs. Ruby set the bar in Brooklyn, and when he finally became a legit family man, he left behind rules that would ensure not only success, but...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on. Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter: I didn't do it. Frustrated with her work at the city's sleaziest tabloid, Rebekah starts to dig. But witnesses are missing, memories faded, and almost no...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.
Author
Series
Coldest Winter ever volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She's eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father's empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. Simone, Winter's young business...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Much has happened since Leslie Meier first introduced her beloved sleuth Lucy Stone with Mistletoe Murder. Many holidays and bake sales have come and gone, Lucy's children have all grown up. But even after twenty-four books into the bestselling series, murder is never out of the picture . . . As Tinker's Cove, Maine, buzzes over a town-wide silver wedding anniversary bash, Lucy is reminded of her nuptials and ponders the whereabouts of Beth Gerard,...
32) Sleepy stories
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Elsewhere edition.
Language
English
Description
Nicol©Łs asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.
33) Wise Acres
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three tales follow the misadventures of the Wise Acres farm animals as they try to help one another find a cow's lost tambourine, send letters to a lonely ram, and comfort a turkey who is worried about getting wrinkles.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From 2001 to 2013, Mike Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which was the largest urban prosecution agency in the country. Vecchione grappled with organized crime and dirty politicians, during which he supervised, investigated, and prosecuted major felony cases. Crooked Brooklyn is a gritty story of corruption, greed and law enforcement. Vecchione navigated a political minefield and expertly rose...
36) We the animals
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce...
37) Vacation
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Time moves slowly on vacation. And for someone who has spent a long time entertaining themselves and has had the garden, the kitchen, forest paths, the lake, and even Grandpa all to herself, it can be hard to invite another in on the fun. So when a young girl's grandfather brings an elephant home to stay, she is not pleased at all. Nostalgic and often dreamlike, this wordless story is about interrupted solitude, learning to be together with another,...
Author
Publisher
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Marie and Benjamin are in love, but World War II is approaching and so is the military draft for Benjamin. But one adversity after the other forces them to separate. Heartbroken, Marie can only keep surviving while hoping that Benjamin comes back to her. But while he's away, another man comes knocking on her heart. Pushed to marry him by everyone around her, Marie needs to make a tough decision--waiting for Benjamin and following her dreams to see...
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