Title: Shepherd Avenue
Author: Charlie Carillo
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Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (29)
First published in 1986. Named one of the Best Books of that year by the American Library Association.

After his mother’s death, a shy 10-year-old boy from the suburbs must find a place for himself with his grandmother’s boisterous Italian-American family in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in the summer of 1961.

"Shepherd Avenue…has terrific force" – The New York Times

"Shepherd Avenue is a remarkably rich first novel, filled with marvelous and memorable…