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1) Silent Night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in the hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
2) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Calcaterra and her siblings endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons. She managed to rise above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together. An unforgettable reminder that, regardless of social status, the American dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.
5) August Rush
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
8) Precious
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
10) Annie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
11) The orphanmaster
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In seventeenth-century New Amsterdam, twenty-two-year-old trader Blandine von Couvering and British spy Edward Drummond investigate the mysterious disappearance of orphan children.
12) What Maisie knew
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark used persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
16) Mad hot ballroom
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing, and from their candid and hilarious perspectives, reveal pieces of themselves along the way. This school program started in 1994 and today has over 6,000 kids from 60 schools involved.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A vivid and devastating (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl-from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths. -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * ONE OF...
18) What Maisie knew
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
19) Alan & Naomi
Publisher
Distributed by Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alan Silverman, a skinny, rebellious kid who would rather play stickball than become a good Samaritan, tries to hide his friendship with Naomi, a young refugee traumatized by the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Silent night: In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
All through the night: Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram...