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The story of a young couple in love and their struggle to maintain a relationship while the young man is incarcerated for a horrendous crime.

African American prisoners, African American women, Bildungsromans, Death, Epistolary fiction

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Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old girl who is pregnant with her second child by her father, is pushed by her courageous African-American teacher to learn to read, and discovers the truth about hersel

African American girls, African Americans, Child Abuse, fiction, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

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Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Walter Dean Myers

Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

African Americans, Drive-by shootings, fiction, Friendship, Gangs

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Here in Harlem

Walter Dean Myers

Presents more than 50 poems reflecting the various personalities of the Harlem community, both past and present.

African Americans, American poetry, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Juvenile poetry, Poetry

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Here in Harlem

Walter Dean Myers

Presents fifty-four poems by Walter Dean Myers, written in the voices of people living and working in Harlem, the author's beloved hometown.

African Americans, American poetry, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Poetry, Young adult poetry, American

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145th Street

Walter Dean Myers

Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem.

African Americans, African-Americans, Children's stories, American, fiction, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

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Harlem Stomp!

Laban Carrick Hill

Offers a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance, discussing how it sparked a period of intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming for many African-Americans.

1877-1964, 20th century, African American arts, African Americans, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

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Down These Mean Streets

Piri Thomas

The story of a Puerto Rican boy, oldest of seven children, who was born and brought up in Spanish Harlem.

1928-, Biography, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), New York, New York (N.Y.)

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THOMAS

Vanderzee, Photographer, 1886-1983

Deborah Willis-Thomas

James VanDerZee, first great African-American photographer whose career spanned eighty years, covered the wars in New York's Harlem.

1886-, Afro-Americans, Exhibitions, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), New York

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Motown and Didi

Walter Dean Myers

Motown and Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight against Touchy, the drug dealer whose dope is destroying Didi's brother, and find themselves falling in love with each other.

Afro-Americans, Drug abuse, fiction, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

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