Harper Teen El bronx remembered, paperback/nicholasa mohr

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In a city called New York .

In a neighborhood called El Bronx .

The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star.

A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future.

A young boy must face the humiliation of wearing his uncle's orange roach-killer shoes to his high school graduation.

In the South Bronx - or El Bronx, as it's known to the people who live there - anything can happen.

A migrant fresh off the boat from Puerto Rico can be somebody on the mainland, pursue the American Dream .

and maybe even make it come true.

Here are stories that capture the flavor and beat of El Bronx in its heyday, from 1946-1956.

A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Finalist, 1976 National Book Award for Children's Literature A Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC).