Tight by Maldonado, Torrey 

Paperback(Puffin, 2019)

BTSB #: 597613 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.9 MG RC: 3.4 6-8 Lexile: 600

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Inner cities - Fiction City and town life - Fiction Family life - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction Friendship - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.

What lane? by Maldonado, Torrey 

Paperback(Nancy Paulsen, 2021)

BTSB #: 597618 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   
AR: 3.5 MG F&P: Y

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Racism - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Black Lives Matter movement - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.

When I was the greatest by Reynolds, Jason 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 749269 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.8 UG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres:

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Brooklyn - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Neighborhoods - Fiction Violence - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: 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.

When we make it : a Nuyorican story by Velasquez, Elisabet 

Paperback(Dial Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 907162 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.4 UG Lexile: 830 HL

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Puerto Ricans - Fiction Novels in verse Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Witch's apprentice [Dragons In A Bag Volume: Book 3]by Elliott, Zetta 

Paperback(Yearling, 2023)

BTSB #: 307117 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 790

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Multicultural Animals

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Magic - Fiction Witches - Fiction Fantasy fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Now that he is Ma's apprentice Jax is finding himself mixed up with all sorts of magical doings, like taking care of a phoenix egg which is going to hatch soon, trying to bring back the creatures Sis stole, finding his grandfather, and convincing Sis, the guardian, to reunite the two realms--and hopefully living to see Brooklyn again.

World belonged to us by Woodson, Jacqueline 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2022)

BTSB #: 964840 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.2 LG F&P: M

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Summer - Fiction Play - Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: A group of kids celebrate the joy and freedom of summer on their Brooklyn block.