2008 NYPL Books for the Teen Age - Back in the Day
Explore the 2008 NYPL Books for the Teen Age list—a nostalgic collection of top teen reads from back in the day. Discover classic titles that captivated young readers in 2008.
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Bone by Bone by Bone
by Tony Johnston
In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend Malcolm, an African American boy.
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Uprising
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Newly arrived in New York City in 1910, Bella is desperate to send money home to her family in Italy, and becomes one of the hundreds of workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. But one fateful March night, a spark ignites some cloth in the factory, resulting in a fire that will become one of the worst workplace disasters in history.
