Sarah Skilton is the author of Bruised, a martial arts drama for young adults; and High and Dry, a hardboiled teen mystery. At the B&N Teen blog she tagged six YA books that take place when New York City was pretty gritty, including:Brown Girl, Brownstones, by Paule Marshall
A coming-of-age roman à clef about Selina, a black girl whose parents and sister emigrated from Barbados in 1939 to
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