Author's personal narrations and experiences she encountered while growing up in Harlem, NY.
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling ...
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East Harlem Poems
When Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930 tells the forgotten story of a Jewish community of well over 100,000, the single largest ethnic group in Harlem."--Cover.
" --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem.
With the love of her life mysteriously murdered, West African Harlemite Fatou sets out to discover which of her murdered lover'ss lieutenants in New York City'ss most notorious drug cartel was responsible for setting him up.
Chronicles the life of internationally-acclaimed jazz musician Duke Ellington, from the Harlem Renaissance through his later years.
The story encompasses Harlem as a suburb for wealthy New Yorkers during the 19th century, its evolution as a black city-within-a-city beginning in the early 20th century, and its second renaissance in modern times.
In Harlem, the Savoy and the Cotton Club were in their heyday, as were Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Adam Clayton Powell. Throughout the book, Kisseloff engages us in a unique conversation between an all-but-bygone time and our own.