Posts from Bronx Library Center

It was a haven of entertainment for hundreds of thousands of visitors from 1960 to 1964. Discover the $65 million amusement park that once lived right in the Bronx.

The New York Public Library provides resources, programs, and services that support those New Yorkers seeking to become American citizens.

BridgeUP scholars—passionate, curious, and creative participants in an innovative after-school program—know how to take advantage of the Library's resources. As a result, they create impressive final projects, known as Passion Projects.

Some of our favorite books written by some of our favorite Latina authors! These works depict a range of themes, from motherhood and sisterhood, to growing up, to the Latina experience in America and abroad.

The Bronx Library Center is one of the college hubs in the Bronx, what does this mean?

Lia is decidedly lagging behind in the puberty department, longing and praying for the day when all teenage angst will cease.

What happens when Cupid hits just one person in a couple? Melissa Gorzelancyk's 2016 teen novel puts the Cupid tale in modern-day Wisconsin.

This 2010 book is another brilliant work from Watson, an inside look at the ugly world of domestic violence and the people left in its wake.

Lucy Hansson thinks she's going to have a great summer with her best friend and her boyfriend, Lukas. Then, her plans begins to fall apart.

Find out about another stellar novel from Renee Watson about gentrification, racism, and the drama of being a teenage girl.

Jade is a junior at St. Francis High School, and she rides the bus across town to attend the ritzy private school. She is one of a handful of students of color and feels out of place in the mostly wealthy, white, privileged student body.

A series of fortunate events in the hellacious circumstances of World War II led to a little boy's survival.

Learn about the Greater New York Metropolitan Area's Association of College and Research Libraries annual symposium.

After reading nearly 150 young adult books in 2017, two Bronx Library Center librarians share their favorites.

Exculpatory DNA evidence, false witness identification, and law enforcement and legal misconduct lead to an alarming number of innocent people being put into prison for decades.

Antarctica is a huge jump from Harper's prior days in California.

Anything posted online can follow people for decades, and kids need to be made aware of the potential consequences of their actions.

Macie and her mother, Aubra O'Sullivan, lead a nomadic lifestyle scamming community after community. Macie is praying that Witchtown will be their last scam.

Norah begins seventh grade after two years of fighting cancer. Above all, she wants people to forget that she was sick.