brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents and try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.

Examination and analysis of the murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the community of Bensonhurst where he was murdered.

Vincent Carl Santini recounts the story of his checkered past, exactly as he wants to remember it.

Memoir of the author's life growing up as an overachiever in an underpriviledged family, chronicling the blessed relationship she forged with her mother after her father deserted the family.

Angus MacMouse's dreams of escaping his dreary life of hunger and cold on the streets of New York come true when he happens into the Brooklyn Opera House, creates a sensation, and makes a new friend, Rosemary.

"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.

Chronicles the history of the Armenian people and describes the experiences of one Armenian family that left Russia to rebuild their lives in America.

Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs.

As news of German victories on the battlefields and Nazi atrocities against the Jews comes over the radio, Mollie faces important decisions as she and her Brooklyn friends prepare to enter junior high school.

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.