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Product Description: Hustle's personal Harlem was sorely in need of a renaissance. For him, it was the place where a scared kid named Eric Samson had been ditched by druggy parents and dismissed by frustrated teachers. Abandoned to the streets to raise himself, Eric Samson knows life won't be easy, beginning with the choices he must make...read more
Paperback:
9780374328559 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 30, 2012, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Hustle's personal Harlem was sorely in need of a renaissance.
School and Library:
9780374371845 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 3, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Eric 'Hustle' Samson, a smart and street-wise seventeen-year-old dropout from Harlem, aspires to rap stardom, a dream he naively believes is about to come true.
Product Description: A tough and funny project girl manages to make that chill wind blow awayThe good life, according to Aisha Ingram, is easy. Itâs hanging with friends, dancing, listening to music, whatever . . . but it doesnât include worrying about the future...read more
Hardcover:
9780786255023 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Afraid that she will have nowhere to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
9780374399580 | Frances Foster Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
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9781250003300 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, October 30, 2016), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A tough and funny project girl manages to make that chill wind blow awayThe good life, according to Aisha Ingram, is easy.
9780374411831 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 24, 2006), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Afraid that she will have nowhere to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
9780007163489 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 4, 2004, cover price $9.85 | About this edition: Aisha is a teenage mother from the New York Projects.
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9781439563946 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 15, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An ALA Award-winning Author Winner of the John Steptoe Award for New Talent Aisha Ingram's idea of the good life doesn't include going to school or worrying about the future.
Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
Hardcover:
9780786247844 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
9780374371401 | Frances Foster Books, October 5, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
Paperback:
9780312603885 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, August 2, 2011), cover price $7.99
9780142501931 | Reprint edition (Speak, December 1, 2003), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
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9780606293976 | Demco Media, October 1, 2003, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
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9781435244139 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Raven Jefferson never expected she'd be a mother at sixteen like her best friend, Aisha.
9780613865234 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
Product Description: Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year, Project Girl is the powerful account of a young woman's struggle to realize her dreams while remaining true to who she was before attending Ivy League schools and receiving impressive diplomas...read more
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9780374237578 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A Black woman traces her journey from a childhood in a Brooklyn housing project to law school to life in Paris
Paperback:
9780520223455 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, July 1, 2000), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Recounts the story of Janet McDonald, who grew up in the New York projects and graduated from Vassar College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and New York University School of Law, before becoming a lawyer in Paris.
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9781435211933 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year, Project Girl is the powerful account of a young woman's struggle to realize her dreams while remaining true to who she was before attending Ivy League schools and receiving impressive diplomas.
School and Library:
9780374371968 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 16, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Cameron living with her single mother in Brooklyn finds her search for identity further challenged when she discovers that she is the product of a biracial relationship.
Hardcover:
9780786266647 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 9, 2004), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live.
9780374399559 | 1 edition (Frances Foster Books, August 15, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live.
Paperback:
9780374400064 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 5, 2006, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live.
Hardcover:
9780786273348 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 2, 2005), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Nate, an academically gifted student who attends an exclusive private boarding school, straddles two cultures as he returns home for occasional visits to see his family and 'gangsta crew' in Harlem, New York.
School and Library:
9780374309954 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 13, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Nate, an academically gifted student who attends an exclusive private boarding school, straddles two cultures as he returns home for occasional visits to see his family and 'gangsta crew' in Harlem, New York.
Paperback:
9780964651401 | Uniworld Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
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