Ruby Lu, Brave And True
"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: chinese americans, neighborhood [X], friendship, family, schools, family life, school stories, neighborhoods [X], families [X]
Julia Gillian (and The Quest For Joy)
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: school stories, friendship, trumpets, secrecy, family life, minneapolis (minn.), fear, saint bernard dog, dogs, death, reading, middle schools, families [X], schools, best friends, trumpet, secrets, neighborhoods [X], neighborhood [X], family, pets, animals
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 [X], brothers and sisters, neighborhoods [X], violence, brooklyn (new york, n.y.), family life, siblings, neighborhood [X], african americans
Pig Park
Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: neighborhood [X], community life, bakeries, family life, building, hispanic americans, juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / hispanic & latino, juvenile fiction / social issues / general (see also headings under family), juvenile fiction / love & romance, fiction / coming of age, chicago (ill.), bildungsromans, neighborhoods [X], families [X], bakers and bakeries, coming of age, latinos (u.s.), bildungsromans, electronic books, electronic books
Judge Juliette
"Juliette loves settling cases for the neighborhood kids, like where to set up competing lemonade stands.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: neighborhoods [X], judges, families [X], pets, judgment, family life, neighborhood [X], picture books