brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

Fourteen-year-old Faye, an African American living in 1984 Brooklyn, New York, copes with her mother's abuse by stealing with her friends, but when robbing an elderly woman almost turns to murder, she gains an opportunity to learn new truths about life.

Winter, born into a wealthy drug-dealing family in the Brooklyn ghetto, grows up thinking of herself as the queen of the world, but everything comes crashing down when her father is arrested and all their belongings are confiscated by the government. Includes answers to readers' questions and character analyses by the author.

Jessica Darling ponders her life in New York, the tiny room she sublets with her friend Hope, and her on-again, off-again relationship with her boyfriend Marcus.

In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.

Thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871 wishing only to return home as soon as she can; however, as the months pass, she begins to adjust to living with her uncle and his family in Brooklyn.

Esmeralda Santiago discusses what it was like to grow up as a Puerto Rican teenager in New York and to go against the wishes of her over-protective mother and discover her true identity.

A boy describes growing up in the 1930s in a Brooklyn seaside community filled with colorful characters.

In 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl grapples with the discovery that "Pa" isn't her biological father, experiences her first romance, and faces hardships dealt to friends in Brooklyn's Norwegian community.

Michael K. seeks out the help of fellow fifth graders when the SPHDZ, who are trying to blend into Earth culture, draw attention to themselves by mixing up holidays, cartoons, and commercials, and risk being discovered by Agent Umber.