El Bronx Remembered

<p>In a city called New York ...<br />In a neighborhood called El Bronx ...</p><ul><li>The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star.</li><li>A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future.</li><li>A young boy must face the humiliation of wearing his uncle's orange roach-killer shoes to his high school graduation.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>Here are stories that capture the flavor and beat of El Bronx in its heyday from 1946-1956.</p>A <em>New York Times</em> Outstanding Book of the Year<br />Finalist 1976 National Book Award for Children's Literature<br />A Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies (<em>NCSS/CBC</em>)</p>