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61) Second decade
Author
Series
Century kids volume 2
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
An Italian immigrant boy joins the large Aldrich family as they stage a women's suffrage play and receive messages on the wireless radio about the ocean voyage of the Titanic.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the reasons the Italian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to America. Includes sidebars and activities.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
This anthology, second in this series of Italian American Writers, contains a very interesting amalgam of different stories and authors. What is common, other than their belonging to the same ethnic group, is the validity of their content and the message they send to the readers. Some stories are funny commentaries on social gatherings of some kind, wakes included, while others address different topics with a more somber tone, such as war events,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive, in this enthralling, new novel in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. . . . A Gaslight Mystery A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible-the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing...
67) Unto the sons
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Biographies of the members of the Talese family and other Italians who have been coming to America since the turn of the century.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Between 1933 and 1935, a young Italian American girl living in North Adams, Massachusetts, corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her town, Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and her own family's activities.
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After two years in New York, Tony Petrosino speaks English and wants to stay in school, but his father insists he work full-time as a newsboy, where he battles an anti-Italian gang, sees even worse poverty than what his family experiences, and meets investigative reporter Jacob Riis.
73) Cadence
Author
Series
American anthem series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This follow-up to Hoff's "Prelude"--set in 19th-century New York City and the surrounding Hudson River Valley--continues the saga of the courageous immigrants who help build this nation, the struggles they endured, and the gospel music they created, lived, and loved by.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Love on the Back Burner spins the story of sassy Alexandria D'Agostino. She is youngest in a tight-knit Italian-American family with a successful marketing career and a passion for cooking, yet her romantic life is less than 4-star. For years, she has tried cooking her way into men's hearts by flaunting her old world culinary skills, but now, she's changing the menu. She dishes up childhood favorites to a succession of first dates (recipes included)....
79) A Bronx Tale
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A hard-working bus driver must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In New York City in the 1920's, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.
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