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Series
Randi Rhodes ninja detective volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Randi Rhodes and her friends are heading back to Brooklyn to solve another mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
What happens when a boy and his grandfather are separated from each other by borders, politics, and distance? The mystery bottle unites the two through an extraordinary gift. The bond of their love.
When a young boy wants to visit his grandfather in Iran, he gets the bottle and removes the map and wind blows him across the sea to visit his grandfather, Baba Bazorg.
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Series
Dragons in a bag volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Before she became a multifaceted warrior and the confident leader of the Dora Milaje, Okoye was adjusting to her new life and attempting to find her place in Wakanda's royal guard. Initially excited to receive an assignment for her very first mission and trip outside Wakanda, Okoye discovers that her status as a Dora Milaje means nothing to New Yorkers. When she meets teenagers not much younger than herself struggling with the...
Author
Series
Kingston (Rucker Moses) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When his magician father's old rival, Maestro, finds a way to overwrite reality with an alternate timeline in which he rules over all, Kingston, Too Tall, and V must find a way into the Realm and travel back through time to stop Maestro and save Brooklyn before it is erased for good.
12) Pride
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant...
14) Spaceheadz: 3
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With only one hundred more Spaceheadz to sign up, Michael K.'s friends start planning an Earth-saving party but Michael fears the Brainwave might be used for a much more sinister purpose.
16) Keeping score
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
17) Salsa magic
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Taza, serving up sandwiches de...
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Series
Invisible Inkling volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Hank Wolowitz and Inkling, his invisible bandapat friend, try to save the family ice-cream store's business from a whoopie pie food truck parked outside."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Kingston (Rucker Moses) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Fantastical Fiction - MID
If You Like Harry Potter, Read These *Youth Books*
Description
Returning to Brooklyn, where his magician-father disappeared years before, twelve-year-old Kingston learns that magic is real and that if he enters the Realm, he might get his father back.
20) When we make it
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
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