In The Night, On Lanvale Street
While helping a stranger solve the murder of a neighbor, thirteen-year-old Charlie and her younger brother are endangered by what they learn about gangs and drugs in the neighborhood.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
When I Was The Greatest
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 83
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: conduct of life, families, brothers and sisters, neighborhoods, violence, brooklyn (new york, n.y.), family life, siblings [X], neighborhood [X], african americans [X]