brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

In 1949 the author's mother, unable to care for him, left him at a Brooklyn orphanage, and for the next three years he lived in institutions and foster homes. Finally he found caring people.

In the late 1990s, Maria, a racially ambiguous girl, is about ready to marry Khalil, her college sweetheart, and the future life she had always imagined seems in reach--Khalil has made money on the first dot-com economic boom, and she is preparing to finish her dissertation on the Jonestown massacre. Then she finds herself fixated on another man, a poet she hardly knows, and then secrets from her past threaten to undo Maria's life and her very personality.

Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.

After being told about the deep and a war raging, Nyla agrees to follow the stranger Osiris to train her newly discovered gifts. She begins to feel more at home in the deep, even after finding her mother there, who abandoned her a decade ago. Nyla's training speeds up when the League discovers an approaching earthquake that will send malevolent energy into the city of Brooklyn.

In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and along the way discovers his true calling.

In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and along the way discovers his true calling.

"When five sixth-graders accidentally summon warriors from their favorite role-playing game to Brooklyn, they are taken on a wild adventure that tests their wits and their friendships"--Provided by publisher.

When August runs into a long-ago friend, the surprise launches her memories back to her adolescence in 1970s Brooklyn. August and her best friends Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi share secrets and hopes for the future in their changing and sometimes dangerous neighborhood.

"In this near-future mystery, Kyla Cheng, the smartest, hottest, most popular student at her Brooklyn high school, gets taken down a peg by a faked sex tape that goes viral"--Provided by publisher.

"Twelve-year-old Davis lives in an old brownstone with his mother and grandmother in Brooklyn. He loves people-watching in Prospect Park, visiting his mom in the bakery she owns, and listening to the biggest operas he can find as he walks everywhere. But Davis is having a difficult summer. As questions of sexuality begin to enter his mind, he worries people don't see him as anything other than "husky." To make matters worse, his best girlfriends are starting to hang out with mean girls and popular boys. Davis is equally concerned about the distance forming between him and his single mother as she begins dating again, and about his changing relationship with his amusingly loud Irish grandmother, Nanny. Ultimately, Davis learns to see himself outside of his one defining adjective. He's a kid with unique interests, admirable qualities, and people who will love him no matter what changes life brings about"--Provided by publisher.