We clutched our only possessions—the bolts of cloth and bottles of vodka that Schindler had secured for us—and walked tentatively through the city toward our old neighborhood. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Benjamin Rush looked about his neighborhood that day and found that there was not a single person ill on his block. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Why couldn't our men get in cars and go to the white neighborhoods to retaliate? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She reminded Mia, oddly, of herself at around that age, traipsing through the neighborhood, climbing over fences and walls in search of the right photograph, defiantly spending her mother’s money on film. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the station was the neighborhood that was now the ghetto, and there I had to stop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was out for a walk in my Munich neighborhood. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But isn’t it about learning statistics and understanding how those stats impact Washington Heights and other neighborhoods in New York?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Standing on Copp’s Hill—the highest point in the North End neighborhood—one could look down on hectic streets where hundreds of people wended their way with pushcarts and horse-drawn wagons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Two towering white men, utterly out of place in that neighborhood and at that time of night, have confronted him. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever notice,” Isa said to Jessie after watching Big Zee stride down the street with his Chihuahua skipping behind him, “that we know everyone in this neighborhood?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The last of the Jews have moved out of the neighborhood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood stood old, quiet and serene in the Saturday sunshine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys worked as neighborhood postmen, delivering draft notices and monthly ration cards. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The children in this neighborhood run around in thin shirts and wooden shoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Writer Ernest Seeman accurately portrayed the Durham of his youth when he described this neighborhood of “large houses and well-groomed lawns, where several of its richest and most righteous rajputs and masters of machinery lived.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

What these studies do not reveal, however, is the frequency with which any given individual is likely to be stopped in specific, racially defined neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I have to live in a decent neighborhood,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nobody in our neighborhood could go to the hospital. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was envious, suddenly, of the neighborhood women and their wealth of children. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We ran through neighborhoods that I don’t think are even in Nassau County. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Coach had his window down and was talking to Mr. Jefferson, the neighborhood sweeper. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The projects are the farthest thing from the fictional Brady Bunch neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We had only second-hand stuff, rental houses in one redneck Catholic neighborhood after another, clothes at Round Robin, a black and white TV afflicted with wavy lines. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My cousins, the neighborhood kids, they’d open the gate and head out and roam free and come back at dusk. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The boys went through the neighborhood, venturing deep into culs-de-sac and up dark sidewalks to houses that many other kids avoided. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As time went by, my mother started nudging me to go outside and engage with kids in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Chess could have sworn every street in their neighborhood had sidewalks, but there wasn’t one here. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Late one afternoon I was playing by myself like I always did, running around the neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There is a small crowd milling outside the Chinese takeout, which Janice says is the neighborhood’s best. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Once I found out that white boys bled the same color I did I figured I'd let them move into my neighborhood any time." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the day of the fatiha, a flock of neighborhood women descended on the house and took charge of preparations for the khatm dinner that would take place after the funeral. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It is a winter in my childhood, on a snow-packed hill in our suburban neighborhood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On and on, block after block, through all these neighborhoods that Freak says are really secret kingdoms. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moving from one Brooklyn or Staten Island neighborhood to another was fine, but unless you had children to think about, even the homeless saw it as a step down to leave Manhattan. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At this moment, I want to crush the entire neighborhood in my arms. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had seen it all the other times there were protests in other parts of the country, other cities, other neighborhoods. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe there were magic powers hiding in the way your older brother made all the worst thugs in the neighborhood play basketball with you even though you double-dribbled every time they threw you the ball. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I didn’t want to see him anymore and walked back through the black neighborhood, into the store, and went upstairs and cried my heart out, because I still loved him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had almost made it back into the neighborhood, when lights flashed and a siren blipped behind us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a country where nearly half live on $1 or less a day, kids from poor neighborhoods almost never go to college. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After I whine about my need for cultural enrichment and go on and on about how this neighborhood is going to suffocate me—both emotionally and intellectually—she finally lets me go. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And they cried a little too, when they talked about their neighborhood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was nice to have the most popular girl in the neighborhood offering herself to him every now and then. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Every year when it bore fruit the neighborhood kids would go and pick berries from it, eating as many as they could and filling up bags to take home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I never thought there was anything powerful enough to blow out a steel tube like this. Bursting pressure’s got to be in the neighborhood of twenty thousand pounds per square inch, even with the weld.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He cut a sharp right on Piedmont Avenue to head up to Fentons, and the neighborhood changed within a few blocks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Guys around the neighborhood would whistle when I walked by. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“So your mother still won’t let you play in the neighborhood?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then that fell apart, and we ended up moving to a neighborhood called Highlands North, a thirty-minute walk from H. A. Jack. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Father and the demoness talked politely about the neighborhood—where was the best place to shop for what. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass through small towns and quiet neighborhoods. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the neighborhood knows, it won’t be long until people outside of Garden Heights know. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She says that there have been two burglaries recently in the neighborhood, both of them in the middle of the afternoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie had been sure that every kid in the neighborhood would line up to buy a cup of lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He maintained his wife and his two well-mannered children in a good house in a good neighborhood in Boston. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Way beyond the pond and the playground and the school, and for a while we're going through this really ritzy neighborhood of big white houses and blue swimming pools. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

People in the neighborhood let their dogs run through the South Field sometimes. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Herbert also enjoyed distributing leaflets throughout the Berlin neighborhoods. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sped away from Central High School’s neighborhood and into more familiar streets where we should have felt safe. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of my coworkers— team leaders, in fact—delight in putting the pedal to the metal and terrorizing the elegant neighborhoods we serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting at the bottom of our porch steps one afternoon, eating orange Popsicles after riding our bikes around the neighborhood. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Although the community greenbelts are still alive, people’s lawns look like the lawns in our neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not only that but the entire neighborhood seemed to be awake now, so they ran back to their homes, hoping to avoid identification. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Along with tens of thousands of other black people, my grandparents were forcibly relocated to Soweto, to a neighborhood called the Meadowlands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I remember the neighborhood when it looked good. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Coeds on summer break grabbed tin cans and began going door-to-door in their neighborhoods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Papa said we were going to stay in the neighborhood. I remember.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“That we’re playing an elaborate new-generation version of hide-and-seek where you get twelve hours to find a hiding space, anywhere in the neighborhood. And that it was your turn to hide.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He kept the Sabbath on Saturday, observed Passover and other important Jewish holidays, and belonged to a small neighborhood congregation, whose members called themselves Hebrews or Israelites. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The 57 bus travels through both kinds of neighborhoods, traversing an eleven-mile path from one end of the city to the other. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Habib exited the main thoroughfare and took a right into a quiet residential neighborhood. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The letters, apparently, had been distributed all over the neighborhood and pasted on the walls of the mosque near our school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I learned which blocks in our neighborhood were thought to be more dangerous than others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We spent the day wandering around the neighborhood, finding restaurants and cafes where we could eat for an affordable price. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At least they’re interested in the good stuff going on in our neighborhood. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are you guys eating? the neighborhood kids ask but we never answer, too busy shoveling the food we love into our mouths. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A suit that could stand out and yet blend in with the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Satchmo moved from his old neighborhood to Marlow Hill, after his mother had taken a job as an office assistant at a veterinary clinic. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bodega did something to the neighborhood, something with staying power, like a song that no one could possibly like but you, because you heard it at a time when your heart was breaking. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The next day, the siblings went to an adjacent neighborhood to ask for food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pop just shakes his head, grabs onto the crucifix at the end of Grandmom’s rosary beads, and says, “I hate this neighborhood.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family left our temporary housing for a house in another inner-city neighborhood, which seemed even rougher and poorer than the first. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The kid in the ’hood who joined a gang and now carries a gun for security, because his neighborhood is frightening and unsafe? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I never even stopped to think about the future, about leaving this school, this neighborhood, maybe even this city. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men were having dinner at a French restaurant in Georgetown, a neighborhood just down the hill from the sprawling Soviet embassy complex. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve told him, ‘This is my neighborhood and the Lower East Side is yours.’ Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Since he stole from banks, he was called a Robin Hood, though he wasn’t known for giving to the poor He’d gone to a picture show at the Biograph Theatre not far from our neighborhood. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Neighborhood differences have also been studied: How stressful is a neighborhood? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He paid weekend visits to a nearby neighborhood to check in on his constituents, often with me reluctantly in tow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He told me he’d call a neighborhood clothing store the first thing in the morning, and that I should be there early. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the folks in our neighborhood, the ones from Ireland, would nod knowingly and smile. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood is gray and dingy and littered with trash, but all the row homes are occupied and therefore not condemned, so our blocks look pretty healthy compared to most around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the shade of Babou’s fig trees, the neighborhood was a luminous white, so bright, I was certain I could feel my optic nerves cooking. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A quick investigation of other neighborhoods around the city turned up all sorts of apartments and houses for rent or sale. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By the time he was fourteen, Tony had built a fierce reputation in the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In my neighborhood gang violence and drug trafficking play a big role and kids have no one to look up to as an example of hope. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

To tell the truth, I was feeling kinda nervous about being in that neighborhood, and was more wanting to find the store than try to bag girls. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

On dry season evenings, when it was cooler, all of us children in the neighborhood would gather together to play tag. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees and fences in the neighborhood had all been cut down for firewood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Nazi leaders came through his neighborhood to register the eligible children, he signed up right away, even though his father did not approve. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eight hours on the job and straight out of the neighborhood. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Julio, don’t you hate it when people from the neighborhood who somehow manage to leave change their names? Instead of Juan, they want to be called John.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Not only kids, but grownups, too, black and white, because Cobble’s Corner was on Hector, and word was racing through the neighborhoods on both the east and west sides of the street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked a few blocks, turned a corner and were in this other neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one fateful occasion, while I drove through the same neighborhood, a vicious rainstorm swept through the streets, and your abuela got caught in the middle of it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Over in the poor white neighborhoods of East Durham, just a mile from where Ann sat, the article about the fire did indeed stir considerable interest. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The closer a neighborhood was to the palace at the center, the more deluxe it was, and the more expensive the houses and mansions became. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Barry looked around his neighborhood—the little houses, the scraggly lawns surrounded by chain-link fences, the palm trees and big oaks. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look around my neighborhood and this school, and nobody looks like me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wish I’d known the world was so much bigger and better than my neighborhood. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

We stopped at a run-down house in an inner-city neighborhood that we were told served as temporary housing for refugees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The kids emerged from the Greystone house into a neighborhood swarming with police and firefighters. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In other words, I strolled around the neighborhood with a plastic bag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But though a few blacks had their homes in various other neighborhoods of the city, by the early 1900s the Black Belt was the center of black community life. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence back toward Main Street and cross to the side of town with the biggest houses in the neighborhood. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They bypassed quiet residential neighborhoods and a shuttered local vegetable market. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But they would show up for parades whenever they were in town, proud of their neighborhood celebrity. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was all that water pouring into their neighborhood? I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hives looked like an abandoned neighborhood, the air groggy with heat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swanlake Village wasn’t a fancy place at all, just a regular old neighborhood. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once Southside moved to our neighborhood, I’d pass whole afternoons at his house, pulling albums from the shelf at random and putting them on his stereo, each one its own immersing adventure. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I want to become the role model that kids in my neighborhood lack and to someday have kids in my neighborhood look up to me the way that I look up to John Tu. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then I wanted to play with the neighborhood kids, to play with all kids everywhere, to be normal for just an afternoon, a day, a lifetime. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On each map, I colored over a different set of streets in the neighborhood with a highlighter. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The water had washed away his whole neighborhood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

There will be T-shirts worn around the neighborhood with his face on them and murals in his honor. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If there was ever a moment to declare you like someone, it was with a churro in your hand and a day of protesting a greedy land developer’s hostile takeover of your neighborhood behind you. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

You suddenly notice that all of his friends are wild, bad kids, the kind that hold lighted firecrackers until the very last second, or torment the neighborhood animals. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something that needs doing in our neighborhood. Any way we can borrow a fire truck? The big one with the ladder?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I hated seeing the neighborhood in shambles, but it wasn't my home. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her and Grandpa’s house was on Court Street, on the edge of the black neighborhood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For her, Pedro moved out of his neighborhood into a downtown apartment, thereby, without intending to do so, ascending to the middle class to which he had never aspired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because there’s too many bars around here. Too much competition. What this neighborhood needs is a decent diner.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was returning to her old neighborhood to gloat, to show her family what she had made of herself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“But we were in the neighborhood and...well, Billy seems to have this attachment to you, and I thought maybe you could help us.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He raised the hat in a gesture that took in the entire neighborhood, the ghetto with its shantytown porches, unpaved streets, and disconsolate laundry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d end up in a neighborhood to the south, an area known as Pill Hill due to an apparently large number of African American doctors living there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the neighborhood,” Henry says, shaking hands with both of them. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Kids in the neighborhood, strangers walking their dogs, moms strolling with carriages—even the two guys fixing the telephone wires. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

On the north side of the river, tidy neighborhoods of small frame houses now perched on neat squares of lawn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was a lone white man in a Negro neighborhood. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were doughnut shops and fried chicken places in his neighborhood; but Wilson’s fiancee, Melvina Murrell Green, found it hard to find fresh produce and good fish. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“My mom always said you were the prettiest girl in the neighborhood,” he says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I can't find him. He cut out of the neighborhood again." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were content, though, or as content as could be expected, and the neighborhood was tidy, working-class, full of families. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’d see it in DeeDee, the tough girl on my neighborhood block, and even in Dandy, my own grandfather, who could be rude and pushy even with his own wife. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Is it hard being a principal in this neighborhood? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tou, Julio, think small! You live small and you’ll die small! Always paying rent because you never thought big. Like most of the people in this neighborhood you think that things are impossible!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The victim was well respected in the neighborhood. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tracy got involved with a boy in their neighborhood, a black boy. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He worried that his mother would judge the yard, the lack of grass, the condition of the neighborhood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The “relos” move periodically from place to place but usually resettle into a neighborhood much like the one they left, adjoined by other subdivisions just a price point richer or poorer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The part we were in, the part with the actual ruins—Takhte Jamsheed—was small enough to fit in our neighborhood back home. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’m still trying to see the neighborhood as Daniel does. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were reluctant to let me go, but I promised I would stay in our own neighborhood, where it was safe. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her way home, Lourdes passes a row of Arab shops, recent additions to the neighborhood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandparents told my mother about the changes that had been taking place in the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I pledged my friendship, and in our neighborhood your word is your bond and loyalty is everything. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And I was actually happy that somewhere in this neighborhood young people were still falling in love. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“They snuck out late at night, right before the Reds came into this neighborhood looking for them.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You kidding me? My whole neighborhood has eyes.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Roy Lee appeared, claiming he just happened to be in the neighborhood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’d always done things as a threesome, riding our bikes around the neighborhood, going to the park for ice cream, playing board games at my house, and watching movies at Audrey’s. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Kind of like what Cinderella would wear if she were a six-year-old sucking a rocket pop by the neighborhood pool. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

His assignment: to visit Chicago’s poorest black neighborhoods with a clipboard and a seventy-question, multiple-choice survey. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So, instead I spent today walking around the neighborhood. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There may be small black holes in the solar neighborhood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big kids in the neighborhood started calling him Baby-Killer Kelly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve been up all night, worried about you! Worried about my babies being in this neighborhood.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The Wazir Akbar Khan area was not attacked as much, so we did not have it as bad as some of the other neighborhoods. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t live in this neighborhood. Plus, I know you only want to come as a publicity stunt.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the summer, Lori found us an apartment in a neighborhood we could afford—the South Bronx. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted her head slightly and added, "By the way, Mr. LeDue, in our grunge neighborhood, we say hanged, not hung. Check it out." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In other neighborhoods, a quarter attend Mass. Neighbors confronted the priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her work raising funds for the new hospital assisted in this regard, in addition to her afternoon lunches with the other ladies of the neighborhood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was intent on fighting and alarming the whole neighborhood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Most times, knocking on somebody’s door in this neighborhood, this late, is asking for trouble. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The next day I moved the mower farther into the richer part of the neighborhood, where the lawns began to get larger while my mower seemed to get smaller. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Heavy odors of Mediterranean cooking floated across the congested neighborhood from the opened kitchen windows in every' apartment building and double house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rapid had me thinking he lived in the neighborhood. That’s where all of his photography is from.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure your parents won’t get mad at you for being in this neighborhood?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Ms. Gruwell just asked us to write or draw a picture describing our neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to know just this neighborhood. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Los Osos, once a group of neighborhood children who played along the river, became a band of forty men who move drugs and people across the Rio Grande. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Like most of the ruins in the wealthy neighborhood, it was huge and half burned down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He made some phone calls, sent some faxes, memorized some online maps of neighborhoods and subways—but mostly he browsed on the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The residents of the neighborhood heaved a collective sigh of relief. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Barnetts’ sons found themselves under regular attack by white boys in their own neighborhood. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The house that the man then showed them that Malcolm X particularly liked, in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood also on Long Island, required a $3000 down payment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So my mom would take us to the local grocer at the corner to seem like we were walking around the neighborhood doing chores. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She comes over to me and I wonder if she lives in the neighborhood. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If you want to move to a nice neighborhood, do you worry that you might not be welcome because of your race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Johnny Joyce’s Irish compatriots dominated Bridgeport; the poorest crowded into the southern subsection of the neighborhood called Canaryville. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I looked back to make sure I was in the right neighborhood, the illusion was broken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Say it five times and your neighborhood is safe. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t protect me. Everybody in my neighborhood knows cops do whatever they want.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

His parents had grown up in neighborhoods less than five miles from their current home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They walked deeper into the neighborhood, avoiding the puddles of dirty water that overflowed from the gutters and dodging the piles of garbage in which cats were digging like silent shadows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one neighborhood near where Enrique’s mother grew up, fifty-two children arrive at kindergarten each morning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I asked my dad once, and he said that the people that lived around his neighborhood understood that some things had nothing to do with the police. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I figured him for a lightweight do-gooder who would last about five minutes in this neighborhood. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night, the sinking sun, like a ring on a window shade, pulled night down over the neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how places like this can be here, cutting right through your own neighborhood, but for most people, it’s completely off their radar. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I quickly jumped in," Blake recalled, "and was driven at high speed to a safe flat in the neighborhood of Karlshorst," the main Soviet military and KGB compound in East Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia’s family moves to a different, larger house, in a ritzier neighborhood farther north. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had turned into a maraca, with the men and women transformed into seeds, shaking with love and desire for one another. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even though the Mediterranean loomed far out of sight, beyond hills, neighborhoods and coastal towns, Liyana imagined she could feel sea breezes brushing her face. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm thinking, well this improves the old neighborhood. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lola’s house sits in a pocket not far from the ocean, in a neighborhood where the homes have the teeniest of front yards. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It’s strange being in my neighborhood with Daniel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard bombs go off in my neighborhood, but it seemed unfathomable that it could happen in this safe haven. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Safina and I quickly got back to being friends, and we and all the neighborhood children were back at our running and chasing games. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s right, Esperanza. You had them talking heads on TV, sayin’ how it was a bad neighborhood, and how if he’d just put his hands in the air when asked, it wouldn’t have happened.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t one of those put-up-your-dukes looks, it was just a look like one dog gives another dog that might be passing through his neighborhood. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The family had been bombarded with interview requests, police questioning, and neighborhood stares. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My neighborhood school didn’t run field trips there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He began talking to the Latino gang leaders of the neighborhoods, and he persuaded seventy-five of them to sign a peace treaty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women in this part of Kabul were a different breed from the women in the poorer neighborhoods—like the one where she and Rasheed lived, where so many of the women covered fully. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a great hush-hush about sex in that neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood boys kept themselves in pocket money by climbing the poles to replace a washline when it slipped off a pulley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She named a black girl who lived behind us in the neighborhood. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The data offer a clear answer: an unmarried, low-income, undereducated teenage mother from a black neighborhood who has a distinctively black name herself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood committee has voted her little brick-and-cement house by the sea as the primary lookout for Santa Teresa del Mar. From her porch, Celia could spot another Bay of Pigs invasion before it happened. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After staring at your picture for a few seconds, and then giving me the type of once-over that would’ve made the guys from my neighborhood throw a punch, dude finally stuck out his hand. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In some parts of the neighborhood, there was scarcely any water at all—only a few inches. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The commotion had a way of drawing in the rest of the neighborhood. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Emily tried to imagine that—year after year in one house, one neighborhood, one school, with memories that went back for generations. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

These days, all the neighborhood merchants hate her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather Southside had moved to our neighborhood after a fire destroyed his old house on the West Side, though luckily nobody’d been hurt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My hands connect the cords, and I feel a buzz of electricity as the lights flood our neighborhood in color. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I grew up in a black family in a black neighborhood in a black country. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The bureaucrats assured them that Bacon Street was just one of three such projects planned for their city—the other two of which would be built in predominantly white neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that these groups were supposed to serve and protect us, but they ignored calls from our neighborhood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, one of them said: “Boy, tell your boss not to send you out in white neighborhoods at this time of night.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d wander around the neighborhood paranoid, avoiding everyone I knew until the high wore off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young, Englewood had been a rough neighborhood but not necessarily as deadly as it was now. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, she says, “So—in elementary and middle school, I was the only Native person in my neighborhood. But that changed when I got to high school.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma didn’t seem to be bothered that we had just brought down the property values of the entire neighborhood by offering to host this rusted-out piece of garbage. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she had sent one of the neighborhood boys—one of my former tormentors—after a doctor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about to head up the hill that would take them back into the neighborhood, back into the ordinary world, when Hazel stopped. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suppose a police saw him wandering in a white neighborhood like this? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we pulled into the neighborhood, the tension lay thick in the air between us, like something inevitable or predestined was finally about to happen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As just about the only kid in the neighborhood who’d actually talked to the Professor, she felt she was entitled to have feelings about what he might do. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the other guys in the neighborhood thought I was going to college. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons when Tom was at work Mary sometimes gave tea parties for the neighborhood cats. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy could easily slip through into the neighborhood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Wes was playing defense, guarding one of the kids from the neighborhood who was playing wide receiver. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sierra knew most of them from around the neighborhood, but a few were strangers to her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Even with their big, fancy house on the corner, those Darcy boys couldn’t care less about what’s happening on this block, much less this neighborhood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At Thirty- fifth Street the neighborhood became familiar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here was this man, a man I always saw as the dude who beat cancer twice, the old guy across the street who ran the neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A reporter from the neighborhood newspaper was waiting on the sidewalk, interviewing people as they walked by. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Quite the opposite. I was just in the neighborhood and I thought I'd drop by,” he said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When anyone ever asks about where I live, I get weird because people always treat you funny when they find out you stay in a certain kind of neighborhood. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We would hear their car­avans approaching our neighborhood, the mewling of their sheep, the baaing of their goats, the jingle of bells around their camels’ necks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pencil gray chain-link fences closed off the backyards in our neighborhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was talking about the people in her neighborhood or my mother. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine him pulling the covers from his body, stepping from that chair, the two of us going for a walk around the neighborhood, the way we used to walk around campus. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all the kids in the neighborhood with working parents had their keys around their necks on either strings or plastic key chains made in Bible school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d ride my bike around the neighborhood for hours without seeing a single kid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were part of what is called the Street Crime Unit, a special division of the New York Police Department, dedicated to patrolling crime “hot spots” in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He decided we should wait until we moved into a better neighborhood before having children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom used to take me on drives through fancy white neighborhoods. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To his relief, he learned that sailors had rescued his brother and that he had been taken to a neighborhood hospital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The last streetcars were going by, taking the now distant sounds of the neighborhood with them. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

That was how the neighborhood had gotten its name. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

White peoples don’t come round my neighborhood less they toting the help to and fro, and that is just fine with me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She would whip me for stealing, and I would try to alarm the neighborhood with my yelling. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the neighborhood—bakers, fletchers, candle-makers, booksellers, builders, painters, other historians—would have to pretend they had never been friends with him in the first place. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Me, who used to run away from all the dogs in our neighborhood. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few neighborhood friends and I used to bat around the birdie for fun after school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tariq's shooting made them want to "crack down" on the neighborhood, my dad said. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was going full blast—“... fool... think you are... idiot!”—her words flying together like gibberish, while the neighborhood kids howled, woofing like dogs and enjoying the show. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother wouldn’t be home by the time he made it back to his neighborhood. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Oak Ridge is probably the safest neighborhood in Atlanta. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Chris was twelve, he printed up a stack of flyers and started a neighborhood copy business, Chris’s Fast Copies, offering free pickup and delivery. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you leave the girl alone? We have bad girls in this neighborhood and you don’t say a thing about them. This is a good girl, so why don’t you leave her alone?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of kids who came from neighborhoods just like mine, who struggled with far more than I ever would. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The closest I ever came to having a pet was an old mongrel that used to hang around the neighborhood. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually, they parted with all the land and moved to the outskirts of Salt Lake City, to a poor neighborhood. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was something confident about his gait, like a rooster in charge of all the neighborhood hens. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The garbage was piled high as your waist, some of it from the neighborhood and some dropped off by outside people. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there were signs of them in every house. They’re probably in that entire section of the neighborhood.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Children were the marketers of the neighborhood and they would only patronize those stores that treated them well. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be one of the largest buildings in the neighborhood—two stories, with very high ceilings and the steepest roof of any house she had ever seen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The shop was in a middle-class neighborhood of Oaxaca city, in southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of gang members who were up to no good made trouble in my neighborhood and killed Natasha. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She pleaded with everyone to come together and to volunteer to clean up the neighborhoods and help restore the Negro businesses that had been destroyed. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It began spilling out of the inner city, up the streets and highways that connect those neighborhoods to the rest of the city. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had entered an area of large homes, and Frear was shocked to find the same disorder as in the poorer neighborhoods. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When it was obvious what he was doing the church kicked him out and guys from the neighborhood started calling him the Junkie Christ. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood had welcomed many families from faraway. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The wealthier neighborhoods in the hills boast good schools, low crime, and views of the bay. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And all along the endless convoy as it made its way out of the neighborhood and onto the highway, you’d hear a passerby ask, “Who they burying?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As the Hitler Youth marched through neighborhoods, they sang hateful songs with lyrics such as, “When Jew blood spurts from the carving knife/ Oh, it’s that much more okay!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did a nice job, because I was assigned the handsomest boy in the neighborhood. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It seems like a normal visit to Uncle Carlos’s house until we pass his neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For instance: How would he ever run a restaurant in this neighborhood again? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This neighborhood was a long bus ride from where we lived. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cruel custom in the neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pink house with the steeply pitched roof had been the neighborhood’s only house of that color in the old days. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had the prettiest church girls in the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of the neighborhoods we drove through was the eight square blocks around Central High School. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Did I actually believe an aristocratic-sounding name would impress somebody who lived in a neighborhood where the power lines were underground? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When the fire truck arrives, Saucepan Lynn folds her arms as she looks up at the giant pine tree in the middle of our neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We were the only Japanese family in the neighborhood. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in shabby pants, with sweat already leaching through the armpits of my white cotton shirt, I felt out of place amid the neighborhood’s neatly manicured lawns and lavish estates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then she replies, “Rabia went out for a little while, just around the neighborhood.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Our apartment was in a working-class, industrial neighborhood just a few blocks from my father's factory on Lipowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

No matter how hot it got, Mami wouldn’t allow us to cool off in the hydrant with the neighborhood kids, whom she considered a bad influence. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Francie was out walking one Saturday in October and she chanced on an unfamiliar neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1969, a Hopkins researcher used blood samples from more than 7,000 neighborhood children —most of them from poor black families—to look for a genetic predisposition to criminal behavior. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These were the neighborhoods she'd been warned about by her parents, the places good girls from the West Side didn't dare set foot in. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It’s like all the shooting and chasing is over for the night and the neighborhood is getting ready for a new day. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Such girls live in quiet black neighborhoods where everybody is gainfully employed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days ago, I just knew TaShon as the short, weird, quiet kid in my neighborhood and class, and now I feel like I’ve known him forever. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Why, for having a statue of the Virgin Mary on our lawn? Every other person in this neighborhood has a statue of Mary on the lawn. We’ll fit right in.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He says it loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the Bull wouldn’t be able to talk because his collar would be too tight, so Virgil would lift him up with one hand and throw him across the neighborhood. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We organize classes in this neighborhood and teach the young ones the ideals of the Biafran cause.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad's new apartment complex was miles away from our old neighborhood. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They met at the supermarket on Amesfort Avenue right after my parents moved to the neighborhood. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My breath fogged up the window as we left that neighborhood behind and sped toward another strip mall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“No, Julian doesn’t live in this neighborhood,” she answered, just as impatiently. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There came to be no other rabbits for a long way round Efrafa and any who might wander into the neighborhood by chance were quickly picked up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My obsession with hip-hop kept me credible with the kids in my neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In another commercial neighborhood, gangs ransacked every grocery store, littering the streets with squashed fruit, flour, eggs, and sugar and turning the neighborhood into what resembled one giant dump. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When World War II began, Gold was a twenty-eight-year-old chemist, living with his parents and younger brother in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

These whole neighborhood sections were way bigger and more complex. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After the last police car left, the people in my neighborhood were still standing against the yellow police tape, staring at the trace of white chalk. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a tough neighborhood, but a quiet street. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But when a fire became too big, and the fire engines from the next neighborhood had to be called in, they were useless because they could not connect their hoses to your hydrants. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Someone in the neighborhood was mowing the lawn, and I could hear pigeons cooing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mostly our people shopped there, although a few whites from a nearby neighborhood came there, too. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vickers Park was in the middle of Vista Heights, the oldest colored neighborhood of town. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From those two spots, the cases radiate outward along the two central roadways that happen to cut through both neighborhoods. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a law-abiding family neighborhood, and no one wanted a creep like this on the loose among so many children, least of all the police. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

From the opposite direction, from the area where Kira and her mother had lived, came others whom she recognized from her old neighborhood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richie drove down Park's street on the way out of the neighborhood, but Park wasn't outside, thank God. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And if he did go back, he would not be going to any neighborhood parties or skin-shedding jamborees. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was important to get out of the neighborhood and into the white sector as quickly and inconspicuously as possible. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violence was something my mother acknowledged as part of the landscape of her neighborhood. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Another big part of our community—and a personal favorite of mine—was an elaborate dance procession performed by the neighborhood kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, that’s the farthest I can go in Uncle Carlos’s neighborhood before the houses start looking the same. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I see desperation, frustration, exhaustion—what I see in the eyes of all the men who have lived in this neighborhood for too many years. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of his classmates were white, many of them Irish Catholic kids who came from outlying working-class white neighborhoods. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a five-block square of Brooklyn with brownstones and linden trees, considered safe as neighborhoods go on this side of Atlantic Avenue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seems to be one in every neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd have dinner with my family and then hang out on our back deck with Heather, or play flashlight tag with other neighborhood kids. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Fifth Avenue is eerily uncluttered, only a handful of people and cabs in a neighborhood usually choked with shoppers and tourists. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Woe betide another gang or an oblivious youngster from a different neighborhood who happened to set foot in Ragen’s territory. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re just some stupid kids from the neighborhood who like to call him names.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

New and regal houses were springing up all over town, each following strict style regulations and a color code, and bound by a ninety-nine-year covenant forbidding resale to anyone not approved by the neighborhood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hate it—this neighborhood, the people shooting each other, killing each other. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither city nor business services had been able to get into the neighborhood while the uncontrolled violence was occurring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After the riot was over, were, or were there not, caches of weapons found all over the neighborhood? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It would become quite a topic of conversation in the neighborhood. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As in many neighborhoods throughout the nation, North Enders were divided in their support of what now seemed to be the inevitable development. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything, and yet right away he added that he knew what people around the neighborhood were saying, but that his conscience was clear and that he was a warehouse guard. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood was mostly black, but there were still more white people there than I had ever seen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But your aunt, didn’t she live in the neighborhood once?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had been all but drained of familiar faces, and now, only four months after fighting had broken out between the Mujahideen factions, Laila hardly recognized anybody on the streets anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their parents, in many cases, had been raised in city neighborhoods, but it was as if they had made a clean break, an escape. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He shared how noisy his new neighborhood was, and we laughed about the time we performed a dance routine to “Shining Star”—one of Dad’s favorite oldies disco hits. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was chasing him through neighborhoods, hopping gutters, weaving through narrow streets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The others don’t go skating on the neighborhood rink, or walk in the ravine by themselves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

From his wheelchair Pop says, “The neighborhood people don’t know you, son. It’s not safe to walk across town at night alone.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In even the tiniest neighborhood around the singularity, the curve takes on almost every conceivable value over and over and over again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I guess my father figures that nobody he knows will see him in this neighborhood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana marched up to the man and asked, “Why do you need to keep that door locked, anyway? No one else’s neighborhood is locked.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fito had said the name of the neighborhood where the boy lived once. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood is rich, which means it’s mainly—I mean, really, really—all white. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her long hair is thick and dark, and her body is still slim, unlike the other moms in the neighborhood who are shaped like upside-down pears. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It feels that way since it takes so long for me to get to and from my old neighborhood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Four guys from my neighborhood were chilling in the living room of an apartment; one of the guys had just bought a gun off the streets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And as I walked through the neighborhood, it started to drizzle. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Windows for wings that flutter up and down like the windows inside Chinese restaurants and post offices in neighborhoods where school buses are spaceships. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dad had signed me up for the neighborhood soccer club when I was seven. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So Jackson’s just one white neighborhood after the next and more springing up down the road. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Very early the next morning, we moved to another house in the same neighborhood where we were able to keep in touch by telephone with other leaders around the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time, almost everything rotted, and the stench issued forth from the locked rooms, spreading through the house and seeping out into the neighborhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, as Deborah walked home from work with a neighborhood boy named Alfred “Cheetah” Carter, Galen pulled up alongside them, yelling at her to get in the car. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I know this view. That drainage ditch...This is my mom’s old neighborhood, where she grew up. Hobby Airport is over that way.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it nice to know that the neighborhood lawns will have healthy teeth? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The mighty Thurgood Marshall was forced to join us in a greasy joint that served wilted lettuce on overcooked hamburgers in the shabby section of our neighborhood known as Ninth Street. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only temporary: She was trying to get closer to a better neighborhood. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, yeah? Are you kidding? Last summer, my mother kept giving me the choice of reading or washing her car. She had the cleanest car in the neighborhood all summer long.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Why I wasn't allowed to go into the white neighborhoods without Father or Mama. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had seen the drunks in his neighborhood. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Fewer than 5 percent of the neighborhood’s adults had a college degree; barely one in three adult men worked at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Little by little the neighborhood’s petty street politics became less important. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I would just ask directions, pretending I was lost in a strange neighborhood. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His nickname in the neighborhood was “Tat Shisha,” which translates loosely to “the smokin’ hot grandpa.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Where streets should have been, green canals etched their way through the neighborhoods, each one jammed with motorboats. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer was raised in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan, the son of an artist and a successful garment manufacturer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His father taught psychology at the University of Chicago; his mother ran an afterschool program for forty years, without pay, in a poor neighborhood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood is gray and white and black cement; you have to peek through metal gates into hidden courtyards to find trees and flowers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s be real: We’re black kids from one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sound triggered a chain reaction across the neighborhood, and soon barks were coming from every direction. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mother didn’t like my coming and going at night even when the party was in my neighborhood. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From all corners of the neighborhood he heard them howling. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The town offers handsome, expensive residential neighborhoods, good schools, parks, golf courses, excellent day care for children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighborhood of Metre 170 on Rack 9. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized some of the women, big-hipped and solid, whom I had seen sitting on those same benches since we had moved to the neighborhood. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

By nightfall the neighborhood was under nine feet of water and Zeitoun could no longer go downstairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Being Tina's first boyfriend kept Park out of the lowest neighborhood caste. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But it was Prairie Avenue and the Gold Coast that enthralled him the most, wealthy neighborhoods we were chased from with slurs and snobby looks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

See, Piper said, he’s keeping tabs on the neighborhood. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when they are not there, when whole city blocks downtown and acres of lawned neighborhoods in Sag Harbor cannot see them, the clicking is there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pole stood against a brick wall which was the windowless side of the neighborhood school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wheeled around the house and neighborhood with very little difficulty, although buildings without ramps and inaccessible public transportation could really start her to fussing. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I started tailing Craig around the neighborhood, meeting the kids I didn’t already know from school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sky is a cloudless black with no peek of sun in sight, and the neighborhood is deathly still. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

No one really knows how the tradition got started, but different neighborhoods each had their own processions. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m just asking that you try. That school was an opportunity for you to see that there’s a big, wide world outside this neighborhood. A chance to broaden your horizons.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In my old neighborhood, my friends were multiracial. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Past downtown, a single road bisects the highway, and on that road sits Roscoe’s lone neighborhood and an elementary school. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The people in my neighborhood hang out in downtown Newark, but I ain’t never heard of nobody actually shopping in Bamberger’s. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a brooding quality about the neighborhood, a quiet, deep, timeless, shabby peace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran half the length of the city and had become its most coveted real estate, never mind that much of it fell in humbler neighborhoods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Like all children in the neighborhood, and in all neighborhoods for that matter, she had been warned about strangers—but she must have forgotten. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids in my father’s neighborhood gave him trouble that first summer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids in my neighborhood do not know their ABCs, but could sing you a rap song word for word. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I still have hopes that they’ll come up with a substitute, made of tin or copper or some such thing, to remind the neighborhood of the clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They searched the neighborhood, but couldn’t find her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I suspected, I was a little too advanced for the neighborhood audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Ms. Parks, I sat on Ms. Durr's front porch in Old Cloverdale, a residential neighborhood in Montgomery, and I listened to the three women talk for two hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ernest and Molly moved into a rented house on Berkeley’s Keith Avenue, in a hilly neighborhood just north of the campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Although the neighborhood begged for Change, Positive Change on every other election billboard after the riots, I was glad to find everything where we had left it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Knowing what other neighborhoods are like also helps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She searched until she found Uptown, and zoomed in until she saw what was left of her home and neighborhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could hear them talking about all the burglaries in the neighborhood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. People are talking about organizing a neighborhood watch patrol or even hiring a real guard to sit in the guardhouse.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered where in the world he’d take her in that neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nickname stuck and now everyone in the neighborhood calls me that too. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long he had the finest garden in the neighborhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The housing shortage continued to grow, compelling more families to push into new neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And they lived nowhere near any levees, so they wouldn’t get any of the flash flooding that might hit some of the other neighborhoods. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many other neighborhoods are without electricity right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On Zenilman’s map the neighborhoods of East and West Baltimore, on either side of the downtown core, tend to be thick with black stars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You let him follow you all the way around the neighborhood, then all the way home. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Years ago the entire neighborhood must have gone mad for her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

That was how it was done: graciously and slowly, so you didn’t arouse the lightly slumbering redneck dragon over in the poor white neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The damage is light, mostly confined to the U-boat pens and refineries, but two errant bombs land in St. Pauli, a neighborhood known for its theaters and cafés and concert halls. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like the way you can smell a summer rain, you can smell the excitement in our little neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We cross the large intersection, and the neighborhood starts to change. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I heard you were a military family. Word travels around fast in this neighborhood. So you, Mr. Bull, are a Marine officer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park came with its own set of friends and boundaries, one of which was the pond their neighborhood shared with adjoining Copeland Park. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The tip would be discussed, as would the disadvantages of living in this particular neighborhood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The redheaded boy lived in my father’s neighborhood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly started to pick up on their lingo and style, the swagger of my new teammates and neighborhood friends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe they had just moved into the neighborhood? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We drove through College Park, a neighborhood that passes for Orlando’s historic district on account of how the houses were mostly built thirty whole years ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He rambled through the dense neighborhoods along the river that were more squalid than ever since the mills had been slack this winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They organized rallies, had students sign all kinds of petitions—from making drinking water safer to protecting the Key Largo woodrat to planting trees throughout the neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Come election, they were to bring in the votes from their neighborhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flakes are falling huge and fast and the whole neighborhood is coated in white. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black neighborhoods became battlegrounds as whites and blacks attacked each other with guns, knives, razors, and clubs. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And three or four of the neighborhood mothers set up lawn chairs nearby and talked and ate pretzels while their kids ran through the water. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In a column he wrote for our neighborhood’s weekly newspaper, Barack calmly defended his choice to stay with me and Malia in Hawaii. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the city emptied out, the looting likely grew more brazen and engulfed neighborhoods like Uptown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a neighborhood. Or a collection of neighborhoods.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Pickett estate wasn’t in a nice neighborhood, exactly, but it was so gigantic that it functioned as a neighborhood unto itself. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Karen and Jenny, two of her new friends in the neighborhood, are also music lovers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju’s condo was in a cluster of stucco buildings, the neighborhood carefully landscaped, boulders placed at corners, and in the evenings, friendly people walked their handsome dogs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed and listen to it while I stare out the window and watch the sun set on the neighborhood. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frank’s father had bought a house in a fairly exclusive neighborhood on Long Island, which is next to New York City. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“My mom died, all right? And I was sent to live with my grandmother, who lives in this neighborhood, and I had no choice. Not that it’s any of your business.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than half, however, believed it was wrong for neighborhoods to refuse to rent or sell homes to black people or for social clubs to refuse to admit them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Esme’s sweet, strong voice floats through the neighborhood as she and Olive climb out of the car. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So they had her in daycare in a neighborhood in London that didn’t like new people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I see us holding hands, getting older through the years, even raising kids in a nice neighborhood where they won’t have to worry about the things we had to worry about. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of Uncle Carlos’s neighborhood yet it’s different. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Based on what Bo told me about him being on scholarship, I figured he didn’t live in a new neighborhood, but I wasn’t quite expecting this. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe I wouldn’t be so nervous if it was a girl’s house, but the fact that it’s a boy in a big fancy neighborhood makes my stomach flip around to the point of nausea. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Though the Nolans lived in the shabbiest house in Irish Town, the boys were the dressiest in the neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only guy in our neighborhood to get in. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me. They called off the neighborhood search when your aunt got through to your mom.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

These perks act as multipliers, a doubling or tripling down on an already overflowing basket of advantages: the parents’ good genes, the family’s wealth and status, the leafy neighborhood within the excellent school district. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the Holmes building at Sixty-third and Wallace, now known widely in the neighborhood as “the castle,” the Conner family was in turmoil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The kids in your neighborhood sound really charming. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When folks are telling stories, the neighborhood is warm. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

It looked like a neighborhood on a holiday, when the factories are shut down, but without the fun of a party. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The future of the neighborhood itself was also uncertain. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I just thought, you know, because so many people love her, she might be able to convince the neighborhood to vote against Wilfrido.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a new neighborhood then, still developing, with empty lots of land and half­constructed homes on every street between compounds sur­rounded by eight-foot walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Rose talks about how she was the first fifteen-year-old in her Baton Rouge neighborhood to wear a two-piece bathing suit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marian found her first voice teacher in her own neighborhood. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The only person who has ever done that is my mother and, when I was little, my aunties in my old neighborhood. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The car rattles as we pass over the railroad tracks, letting me know we’re in my neighborhood now. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Henry lugs out the half barrel for another neighborhood cookout. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

After dinner, we walk around the neighborhood for a little while to kill time and then get in line outside the Storage Room. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

"It was unusual for kids, even in our German neighborhood, to be so in love with Germany," said one of Haupt's friends. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I pedal furiously through my neighborhood, taking the potholed roads I usually avoid because I know today they'll be faster. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After dinner TJ and I take a power walk around the neighborhood because according to him, “pageant boot camp has begun.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even they, he said—a tiny group inside a small church, in what felt like a forgotten neighborhood—could build real political power. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The parlor stood ready for company, with surprisingly fine furniture for the neighborhood, and a portrait on the wall. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, Wilfrido’s team took down tents and booths, so I had a clear view of La Cocina—a reminder of my failed attempt to convince the neighborhood that the restaurant belonged. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A plan unfolded that November after the five Hayti neighborhood councils had merged into one areawide council. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would pick fights with the younger kids in the neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Baudelaire orphans walked back to Count Olafs neighborhood and stopped at the home of Justice Strauss, who welcomed them inside and let them choose books from the library. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now, husbandless in this new neighborhood, my skin glows like a bare bulb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is one big sweet-smelling city. We know every neighborhood by the scent of its garbage. You’ll be an expert, too, really soon.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Since finishing law school, I’d been living back in my old South Shore neighborhood, which was still relatively untouched by gangs and drugs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He takes a cab from his office to her neighborhood, getting out at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm also relatively certain other teenagers in my neighborhood did not wake up at 5:00 in the morning, along with publicists and studio heads, just so they could watch the Oscar nominations announced live. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I would take him with us, but they don’t allow pits in Uncle Carlos’s neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Brightbill had spent his entire life by the pond, and he was becoming very curious about what lay beyond his neighborhood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All the dogs in the neighborhood went wild as Nhamo fled back down the road, skirted around the houses, and disappeared into the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had entered a neighborhood of splendid quiet, hushed gardens, and columned houses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty is taking me for a walk around the new neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

North Philadelphia reminded Wes of the Baltimore neighborhood he had just left. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Since we’d moved to a colored neighborhood, my mom thought the cats would be okay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As a result, the tank leaked so badly neighborhood children gathered molasses in cans and buckets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had “integrated” into a neighborhood of whites who had made his life miserable. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood grew hap-hazardly a century or so ago and today looks hardly urban at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again there was the settling process and the establishing of trust or credit at the neighborhood stores. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably from some little boy in the neighborhood.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On February 21, 1994, more than a hundred agents and other personnel quietly staked out the neighborhood around his house. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Marcia is too bland for this neighborhood, especially on Saturday mornings when we go to Jenny's apartment and a bunch of us dance along to Soul Train. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They circled the neighborhood of the music venue looking for street parking. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The moon is round and full tonight, and it casts a dim light on this neighborhood where the whole block is lined with tall trees and brownstones. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mandela simply wandered off in the middle of practice, once for no reason and another time to join a pickup game of older players from the neighborhood at the far end of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In almost every part of the neighborhood, some building was being renovated. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Diana lived in Park Slope, a trendy neighborhood of cafes and shops, but I could barely leave the apartment. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I took my time getting to the courts, practicing dribbling the ball between my legs, but I also tried my best to absorb the new neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Although only the river separated us, it was a ten-minute, winding drive back to my house because there’s only one bridge in my neighborhood. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was not wise even to be seen in the neighborhood of such people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This in itself is a change from the days when “college boy” was an insult in many working-class neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood peopled by fifth and sixth generation Americans, whereas in the Nolan neighborhood, if you could prove you had been born in America, it was equivalent to a Mayflower standing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each neighborhood gets a little bit of water each day.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All that night helicopters flew over the working- class neighborhoods, humming like flies from another world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like our entire neighborhood had the same idea. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

No one has such a fancy car in our neighborhood. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Us, Latinos, the neighborhood, who else? We want you to join the program, quit that job of yours at the supermarket and concentrate on school.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She went door to door throughout her neighborhood, telling people about how Operation Breakthrough had helped her force the powerful Henry M. Michaux to repair her house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She, Nicholas, and her four other children were living in a second-floor walk-up in Englewood, a crime-burdened neighborhood abandoned first by the white middle class and then by the black middle class that succeeded it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As everyone ate and danced and laughed, it almost felt like the old days—like Wilfrido Pipo had never stepped foot in our neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The trail spans two and a half miles—from Wicker Park to Humboldt Park—and it has great views of the skyline and neighborhoods below. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of logs into the locks that would raise them to the level of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Who had organized to make their neighborhood better. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Passing neighborhoods on a major main street does allow me to peer in from a safe distance, and I’m noticing that a few areas still have electricity, which is somewhat comforting to see. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Our friendly neighborhood dealer. You’d better learn to love him, because he’s got the monopoly around here.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My brother Chris took us on a walk around the neighborhood, so we could show off our new clothes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One bright spot in our neighborhood was a little store run by a Jamaican family, selling clothing, hair accessories, and other items. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He lived in a neighborhood called Orange Grove in a white family’s garage, which he’d turned into a cottage-type thing with a hot plate and a bed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Blanca had organized a network for obtaining provisions through the black-market and her contacts in the working-class neighborhood where she went to teach ceramics to the women. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping the party — the neighborhood kids, the Cobras, even George McNab — stopping them dead as traffic. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Tempe, segregation never seemed to be a big deal; in Greenwood things were different It wasn’t just the schools; restaurants, movie theaters, stores, even the neighborhoods were divided into white or colored. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Kids from the neighborhood visited the tank all the time. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The poorer neighborhoods often had no trees at all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They had to walk through some rough neighborhoods, but nobody bothered them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some she had met at work; others came from the neighborhood or St. Paul’s AME Church. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

People in the churches he pastored and in his neighborhood needed him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, “he w'as a good friend. I think he would have built up the neighborhood. I don’t know if you can understand.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trent is the nosiest woman on the planet, and it doesn't help that the buildings in my neighborhood are only about fifteen feet apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood postman was probably used to being met with chains over cracked doors. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No. He does other work that isn’t so noisy. Trimming, fertilizing—that sort of thing. Quiet things that won’t wake the neighborhood.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The sky glowed a Persian blue, and the black silhouettes of the buildings gave the neighborhood a fantasy quality, like the chimney-sweep scene in the Mary Poppins movie. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This is the bottom of the hill away from the new neighborhood. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ten days after the church bombing, on September 25 at 2:31 a.m., another bomb exploded in a nearby black neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She grew restless on the roof, and so for some exercise, Boori Ma started circling the neighborhood in the afternoons. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Told them of the test for sex carried out in the neighborhood of Metre 200. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my neighborhood,” I say as we pull up to a red light. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"I have to hear from the neighborhood how good you're getting? So I came up to see." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole neighborhood could hear her yelling, but they couldn’t smell the liquor on her breath like I could. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He decided to put the spats away in the box when he got home and not wear them again until they moved to a more decent neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to turn and run back to my own neighborhood, where people would welcome us and where I felt safe at least some of the time. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Good. I’ll ask my officers to increase patrols in that neighborhood. Can you give me the address?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuttled between meetings with various department heads, worked with the staffs of city commissioners, and was dispatched sometimes to different neighborhoods around Chicago to follow up on personal complaints received by the mayor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the morning, we beat up people from the neighborhood who were on their way to fetch water at a nearby pump. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Just people. From the neighborhood, I guess. The next day my grandmother wanted me to pray with her, but I ran out of her room.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Monday and I would write letters to each other with funny drawings and ripped-out magazine articles, keeping up with the latest neighborhood gossip and music. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Carmen and her pal Tony were heading back from school, making their way through the noisy streets of their neighborhood, Boston’s North End. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“As you can see, we are located in Presidio Heights. It’s a fine residential neighborhood, but perhaps not an ideal spot for someone like your daughter...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The composition of the neighborhoods that Truman draws from has changed in some small ways. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’d picked that neighborhood off a map because it looked about as far from their school as you could get without leaving the city. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Children’s Art Theater was on Hua-shan Road, in a neighborhood that hardly seemed part of the city. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doha had not been allowed to leave his neighborhood or see any of his friends. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was a time, not very long ago, in the desperately poor New York City neighborhoods of Brownsville and East New York, when the streets would turn into ghost towns at dusk. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of the most important electronics firms in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She gave an art class Friday afternoons for the neighborhood kids. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This boy, let’s say he’s a product of a filthy neighborhood and a broken home. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Simon’s aunts found the stories stuffed under a sofa cushion and informed the neighborhood committee. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went out looking for me in the neighborhood and wrestled my backpack away from that little angry dog. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I know she is not referring to my friends at St. Francis but the ones in my neighborhood. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Only a month ago, they had moved out of the city to a neighborhood on Long Island so that the girls could have a yard to play in, so Mami said. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The boys lived in different neighborhoods and attended different schools, but they belonged to the same Mormon church. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I’m surprised to see Ronan walking through our neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It was warm out for the first of December and a lot of people were out on their stoops when I reached the neighborhood. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Negra’s explanation was simple: “She was always jealous of his hair. Popcorn had the best hair in the neighborhood and that girl was shallow. So shallow, I’ve stepped in deeper puddles.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Last time he played with some neighborhood kids, they called him “white boy” ’cause he goes to Williamson. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I ask her where she’s from and she answers with practice a certain fancy neighborhood in Seoul, and then offers other facts I might want to hear: she’s twenty-two, a college graduate, a good cook. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the neighborhood was getting a bad name. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I know this might be a bad time, but I’m in the neighborhood. One of my biking buddies lives off 11th. Can I stop by?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood lawns spilled into each other, a continuous carpet; the bushes bristled, bushy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately I've been preoccupied with a tone cult in my neighborhood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Does that mean that everyone from the same neighborhood will go to the same school?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose the police had already searched this neighborhood and had overlooked him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In poor neighborhoods garbage mounded in alleys and overflowed giant trash boxes that became banquet halls for rats and bluebottle flies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Traders showed him haystacks where he could sleep, neighborhoods where he could break into houses, and markets where he could trade stolen goods for food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

O’Brien knew that in this neighborhood it was nearly impossible to get a doctor who would make house calls. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swore every set of car tires I heard on the street was the cops scouring the neighborhood looking for us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just my luck, I’m stuck in a classroom full of troubled kids who are bused in from bad neighborhoods. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"What about your daughters? We have to get them out of this neighborhood, I tell you..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now, she finds herself in a suburban neighborhood of big houses with three-car garages. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I flew out of our bubble and into the main tube, and then out of our neighborhood and up the droptube and then across the surface. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his coat on, went out into the neighborhood, and stole the front page of the Home Town Chronicle from every stoop he could find. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

From his volunteer work at a youth basketball league here in Dearborn to his goal of becoming a doctor and bringing quality medical care to poor neighborhoods, Kamal embodied the very best of America. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The neighborhoods were emptying out, and it wouldn’t be long before there was no one else to help and little left to see. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

George would have to ride into one of their neighborhoods one of these nights and toss a few eggs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But in any case, remember, you have already learned a lot. More than many of the neighborhood girls. You can read and write. What more do you need to know?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I tense as footage of my neighborhood, my home, is shown. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Violet lives one street away from Suze Haines in a large white house with a red chimney in a neighborhood on the opposite side of town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At this she played cards with a bridge-a-matic, that she might do better in the neighborhood club. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy joined a neighborhood group to play bunko, a social dice game favored by Alpharetta women, many of whom think of it as an excuse to get together and have a few glasses of wine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a missing-dog poster in our neighborhood. You guys ate it, right? You dog eaters.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Only the exceptionally bright student from the poor neighborhoods was encouraged and nurtured, like a rare orchid found growing in a patch of crabgrass. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If my mother didn’t cook, we’d go to a neighbor’s house to get a plate of food in exchange for good neighborhood gossip. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If anybody wanted to know what the neighborhood looked like in the twenties, where Jack Johnson had lived, perhaps, or where James Baldwin’s father had preached, Mother Fletcher could tell you. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no neighborhoods— even on the Upper East and West sides of Manhattan—that were safe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The indoor lights are off everywhere, but the neighborhood is still lit up orange. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She looks at me and asks, “Does this have something to do with the police shooting that drug dealer in your neighborhood?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She claimed he set fire to a couple of her dogs and skinned some neighborhood cats and strung their naked pink bodies up on a clothesline to make jerky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most everyone in the neighborhood has stepped out of their home to marvel at our light—like moths entranced by the lick of a hot campfire flame. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But I get a good feeling after arriving at the third one and spotting a Strong Shoulder mason jar like we drink iced tea from in the neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The old families, whose grandfathers and fathers worked at the Ford plant, were fleeing the neighborhood as if it was the second coming of the black plague. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I could bet this wasn’t their first funeral, and it wouldn’t be their last, and that Andre’s was the next face painted on a neighborhood wall, or the next RIP tattoo. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was July, and Hugh and I were taking the Paris Métro from our neighborhood to a store where we hoped to buy a good deal of burlap. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The basketball court is a strange patch of neutral ground, a meeting place for every element of a neighborhood’s cohort of young men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They talked about its meaning, about how it had changed the feel of a neighborhood. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A claustrophobic feel pervaded the flat, the concrete neighborhood with no trees, the scarred walls of the building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We lived in a predominately white neighborhood in Warner Robins. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy went directly to a neighborhood junk shop where he bought a .. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike many towns in the South, Allen’s neighborhood in Selma, Alabama, was racially mixed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Once I smoothed it out, I could see it was a flyer for an Irish dance class at a neighborhood rec center. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

To get to the field, the boys would have to walk past houses of older Clarkston residents in the neighborhood behind the library and community center. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I charged a tin of soup for a short jaunt, a full loaf of bread and a jar of pasta sauce for trip any longer than the immediate neighborhood. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“This was a good neighborhood—until you brought your people,” they complained. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The cost of weapons is small here because the Black Disciples had a side deal with local gunrunners, helping them navigate the neighborhood in exchange for free or steeply discounted guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I could smell smoke, but it wasn't too strong, and I recognized a few faces from the neighborhood—faces of some friendly folks, and faces of some not-so-friendly folks. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“A brand-new blue mountain bike, too expensive to replace, unfortunately. The police thought teenagers from your neighborhood might have taken it. Apparently theft is a problem on the farm.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Didn’t he know the history of the neighborhood? Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure goes to the model neighborhood and runs her fingers over the houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And you know the day’s going to get hot again when the rain’s over, because that’s what the neighborhood association has decided? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew I lived there, and even though I wasn't the only kid at school from that neighborhood, it seemed like I caught the most mess about it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The field at Indian Creek was a free-for-all in the afternoons; there were no fences around the property, and neighborhood teenagers were constantly popping out of the surrounding woods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Seeing Mr. Smith at school was a mild comfort, a bridge between Whitney Young and my neighborhood, but it did little to offset my anxiety. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Moving to this quiet New Jersey neighborhood—owning a bit of land after his family lost the ancestral property during the war—restored him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next to him, a tall chain-link fence separated the highway from a neighborhood of winding streets, cozy houses, and tall eucalyptus trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He told me it freaks out the little kids in their neighborhood. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But for now, he left him to wrangle the neighborhood talent. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad we got our mothers together. Mama’s only friends have been ladies from the mosque, or her catering clients. She’s never had anyone in the neighborhood to hang out with.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But maybe the kids in your neighborhood are more civilized. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The room is crowded tonight with men and women from the neighborhood—some with their heads wrapped with white fabric like Madrina. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Johnsons had achieved a level of independence that others in the neighborhood didn’t know existed, let alone understood how to obtain. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They were the children of the prosperous storekeepers of the neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Lots of neighborhoods have cookie-cutter houses, because it’s cheaper for builders to just use the same design over and over again. It doesn’t mean anything.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

To see a part of the neighborhood looking better every day, and to smell those good smells of growing plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natalie said absently, switching to a broader view of the neighborhood. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The garden was a copy of the neighborhood. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you have people like this gentlemen, going around the neighborhood, helping out where they can,” the white man says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I noticed how he always locked the car doors when we drove through the black neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At one end is the bustle of Westchester Avenue, the neighborhood’s main commercial strip, and from there, the block runs about two hundred yards, flanked by trees and twin rows of parked cars. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Then, of course, that sell order didn’t go through and there was a merger and so you were, at that point, worth something in the neighborhood of four hundred and eighty thousand dollars.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rumored around the neighborhood that when Sapo came out, the nurses cleaned him up and brought him over to his father. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As I walk, I take stock of the current state of my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Put notices around the neighborhood, as well as in grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, and pet supply stores. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just go out to your neighborhood and find a corner to stand on? That’s what you want from life, isn’t it?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten used to the smells by now, and so has our block, and maybe our whole neighborhood too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. They all live in the same neighborhood and only buy food from each other.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Men, women, and children throughout the neighborhood were still celebrating their beloved Boston Red Sox, who, led by Babe Ruth, had won the World Series on October 14, 1918. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In addition, the Neighborhood Dictatorship Group patrolled the neighborhood day and night. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes sense that the neighborhood guys without dads flock to Martel. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Once I heard her mother talking to my babysitter about something bad that had happened in their old neighborhood, something with a boy. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mendez is always dressed to the nines, and every guy in the neighborhood gets all spit-mouthed when they see her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood is older than ours, with aging ranch style homes, but a strip mall on the corner looks no different here than in my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I run barefoot from the sandy beach, in and out of the small neighborhoods, all the way to our house. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Some blacks started looking beyond their neighborhood for places to play in nearby white areas. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was a genial fireplug of a man who spoke informally, like someone from the neighborhood. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She kept up with all that went on in the house and the neighborhood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The early homeowners had come mainly from one of two places: Philadelphia’s teeming neighborhoods, as my parents did, or from coal country in upstate Pennsylvania. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many had had close calls with death and seen it on a daily basis in the streets of their neighborhoods; everyone—even those who had run from the city—considered himself or herself a survivor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In his icebox he found a bit of left-over goose liver and took it out to the alley for the neighborhood cat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mom nodded, and Carmen smiled as I watched Abuela’s and Abuelo’s ashes move with the current down the twists and turns of the many canals that made up our beautiful neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The neighborhoods it draws from are often called blue-collar, but that is an outdated notion, one based on steady union jobs at U.S. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The kids in the neighborhood were going off to school, and as they passed, Morrie looked down, ashamed that his classmates would see him this way. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flom grew up in the Depression in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The baby’s father was a neighborhood boy who had no interest in helping out with his son. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We lived in a big building in one of Shanghai’s nicer neighborhoods. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even that dynamic wasn’t unique; the same thing was happening in Wes’s neighborhood, where Hopkins was the driving force of change, aimed at improving the quality of life for students and faculty. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, the cave at Lascaux was discovered purely by chance in 1940 by some neighborhood boys whose dog fell into a hole that led to the underground chamber. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drum my fingers on my knee as I watch the neighborhood pass by. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Though King Hill had a citywide reputation as a depressed and dangerous neighborhood, the Colvins found it to be an extremely close-knit community where people knew and looked out for one another. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He started following me all over the neighborhood. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You’ve never seen that kid before? He lives in this neighborhood! He hangs out in the playground sometimes. You have to have seen him. Everyone has!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And then moving to another neighborhood and building another? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like how wonderful their children are, or how big their house is, or what a quiet, pretty neighborhood they live in. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The jeepney will circle the neighborhood while selling halo-halo, a sweet concoction of ice, milk, red beans, tapioca pearls, jackfruit, and coconut flesh—with even sweeter condensed milk drizzled on to stir in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where, but if we don’t stop it, it’ll end up destroying the whole neighborhood.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don't really have any homeboys in the neighborhood, just because a lot of teenagers around here are messed up these days. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Hardly any white people in this neighborhood," Starry says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She used to call the boys from the neighborhood ghetto penguins because of the way they waddled. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The weird part is you get robbed more living in bad neighborhoods than if you live in nice ones. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“A son of Jupiter tempted us with favors. A new home, he promised. Bigger and better! No down payment, an excellent neighborhood. Rome will last forever.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He found that about half of all the cases came, essentially, from four neighborhoods representing about 6 percent of the geographic area of the city. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entire neighborhoods disappeared into the insatiable maw of urban renewal, displacing residents into an already tight housing market. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But this street looks nothing like my neighborhood. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s like a hot water bottle plopped on top of the colored neighborhood, making it ten degrees worse than the rest of Jackson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This neighborhood had been my home once, and it always would be, even after the “taint” of Jews had been scrubbed away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Some animals from my neighborhood. They’d beat up their own grandmothers for a quarter.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steers our SUV into the road and starts across the neighborhood toward the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had never approved of hunting, though everyone in their neighborhood had a deer head or two somewhere in their houses. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every day, I heard about it—not because people were unhappy that he was here, but because the police presence in the neighborhoods they were working in was extreme. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But he never tried to play with the neighborhood kids after that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I say, because he knows almost everyone in the neighborhood and he hears things. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downing Heights was the richest neighborhood in town. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Everything sanitary, as you can see, which is more than I can say for most barbershops in this neighborhood. Haircut and shave?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This place feels like the eerie, abandoned suburban neighborhoods that surround nuclear power plant leaks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They never invited people to their house, and within weeks the ladies of the neighborhood had stopped inviting Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey’s backyard didn’t have any of the eerie sameness the front of this neighborhood’s homes displayed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When she was ten a neighborhood boy taught her how to swim and offered her the use of his glass-bottomed box so that she could look beneath the surface of the waves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each time, C.P. has campaigned for him in white working-class neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When did you start seeing a major change in the neighborhood? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is this exact neighborhood, he realizes, colorless and depopulated and miniaturized. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The musings of the tlamatinime occurred in intellectual neighborhoods frequented by philosophers from Brussels to Beijing, but the mix was entirely the Mexicans own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While young minority men with little schooling have always had relatively high rates of incarceration, “before the 1980s the penal system was not a dominant presence in the disadvantaged neighborhoods.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a fact. It’s stupid to destroy your own neighborhood.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Sirens echo through the neighborhood, and the crowd instantly thins out, with people scattering everywhere. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She lives in one of those old neighborhoods in Broadmoor in a giant mansion. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wes, always up for a challenge, relished the opportunity to beat up on a new group of neighborhood kids. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Kaan itself dug out a series of reservoirs, established neighborhoods around each one, and linked the ensemble with roads and waterways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But as they turned into their neighborhood, Candice accepted that her father had no intention of discussing her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Men work as bricklayers; women clean houses in wealthy neighborhoods. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I reasoned thus: Though English was my native tongue and America my native land, she, an alien, could operate a store and earn a living in a neighborhood where I could not even live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, everyone, this neighborhood is great. But don’t you think it’s time to take it to the next level?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Hollis climbed into the back with Sonny and a younger boy Alfred had seen around the neighborhood. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had just gone to bed in their upstairs bedroom when they heard a violent explosion that not only destroyed the front of their home, it shattered windows throughout the neighborhood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They had reached a neighborhood of huge trees and old houses. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But there was something else, another circumstance, that made it even more terrifying and threatening to the parents of the neighborhood. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through industrial neighborhoods, where the orb buzz was drowned out by the sound of clanging hammers and the whir of saws. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray was a tall stick of a man who everyone in the neighborhood knew for two reasons. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mother used to say to simply start with “Hello, how are you?” but my mom ain’t grow up in this neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In his neighborhood, miles from the closest levee, the water had risen slowly enough that he knew it was unlikely that anyone had died in the flood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Except for Avalon’s ugliness, this neighborhood is richer—brownstones with flower boxes instead of high-rises with ugly window air conditioners. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nor did I. When I arrived home there would often be neighborhood kids in the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True. Anyways, when I was very young, he teased me all the time. I convinced myself that he hated me, like many of the kids in our neighborhood.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all kinds of people. Other schools. Folks in the neighborhood. Different businesses.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood was quiet, except for the sound of a basketball being bounced. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother never got harassed when she walked around our neighborhood in her head scarf during the mid-nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Marian’s grammar school, like her neighborhood, was racially mixed, with black students and white students, but all the teachers were white. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But moving to a better neighborhood doesn’t improve a child’s chances in school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Why couldn't we use the guns to defend ourselves when they came to our neighborhood? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I bet she doesn’t even hear gunshots in her neighborhood. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Our new house sits about two miles from our old house, on a quiet neighborhood street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“A majority of those years have been spent serving in Garden Heights,” the voice-over continues, “a neighborhood notorious for gangs and drug dealers.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood was mostly Jewish then and my mother was always saying, “They killed Christ! They pushed in the crown of thorns!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one other fourteen-year-old in the neighborhood who had a conk. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pipe was at the bottom of a hill, and I would walk down there and huddle with other poor people from the neighborhood, collecting drips of water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings in the neighborhood were only one or two stories high, so from where she stood she could get a pretty good idea of the lay of the land. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood was getting more and more dangerous; there had been a rash of break-ins in the houses around us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Now her best friend’s neighborhood felt like another planet. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a neighborhood. Or a collection of neighborhoods.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It reflected class differences in working conditions, stress, diet, neighborhood, family structure, and a host of other social and economic factors. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had never spoken to him or even known his name, but I’d seen Nazario’s face a few times around the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A requirement that drivers stop at every corner in black neighbor-hoods just as they did in white neighborhoods. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Linda advised me to stay alert in my neighborhood and to always be sure to tell my mom where I was going. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I always thought the kids would spend their entire childhoods here. You know, having the same type of childhood you had. Being supported by the neighborhood. Knowing everyone by name.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Junito only responds by slapping high fives with his boys as they go on and on about TJ, the neighborhood sissy. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And throughout the night, white and black mobs invaded each other’s neighborhoods, attempting to burn the other out. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The local state’s attorney referred to the neighborhood as the training ground for “the Canaryville school of gunmen.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We were all decent guys from nice neighborhoods and good families, picked up for unpaid parking tickets and other infractions. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Is the neighborhood mostly white folk or colored?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Like most of the neighborhood she knew Nene was slow and paid him no mind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As my parents had once done for me, they'd made sacrifices so that she could be exposed to things outside her neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The stable was finer than any house in the neighborhood and the yard was the prettiest in Williamsburg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neighborhood was a series of walls surrounding a narrow dirt path that turned into a long and winding road from the main street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She loved her neighborhood and wasn’t ashamed of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved around the neighborhood now with more independence, less tied to my parents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Emerson was in a fancy neighborhood with streets canopied by eucalyptus trees, and the school building looked like a Spanish hacienda, with a red terra-cotta roof. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know where she and her mom would live when they moved back to Atlanta, but it wouldn’t be in their old neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That snoopy old lady in our new neighborhood put an end to my baby-sitting career. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the summer, I played flashlight tag and kick ball with other neighborhood kids. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The soldiers walked around the neighborhood, knocking on all the doors, telling people to leave. Those who refused were shot dead right on their doorsteps.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cared about having their streets paved, about having playgrounds and parks in their neighborhoods, about traffic lights being provided to make the streets safe for their children. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You going to do one of those television programs on our neighborhood?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The barricade is made up of all the junk pulled from every neighborhood garage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We don’t have a Puerto Rican restaurant in our neighborhood. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And is it true that the students left behind in neighborhood schools suffered? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that Sandy is poor, living in a neighborhood like this, but I guess you never know what the truth is, when someone wants to keep a secret. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Every boy in my neighborhood knew my five sisters by name and face. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days I would check into homeroom; other days I’d head directly back to the train and return to the neighborhood, where I’d meet up with one of the guys who had a similar arrangement. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Everyone! I am new to town and can say that the people of this neighborhood are truly wonderful.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood sensed this, and in my dream the people were jumping, shaking, and jamming as if the rent weren’t due for six months. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He takes a sip, then passes it to the two boys from the nice neighborhood. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On April 19 the fire drove the soldiers and firemen west into Howard’s neighborhood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the number of houses in smaller neighborhoods had continued to increase, drawing the attention of upwardly mobile families who, like their white counterparts, had a vision of postwar success that included home ownership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Taker cries, and slams on the brakes one afternoon as they leave her neighborhood. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, we steered clear of the old residential neighborhoods bordering the Levee and headed deeper into the vice district’s underbelly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It took us longer than usual to reach her neighborhood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The whole population of the neighborhood turned out for a long, trailing funeral which went on for hours and was in effect an indignation meeting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The people in our neighborhood robbed his store for food, and he couldn’t even defend himself.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood of Key West where the cigar factories were located was called Gatoville. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a sense of how much latent promise sat undiscovered in neighborhoods like my own, and I was pretty sure I’d know how to find it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He said she had offered him the job when she had seen him working in the neighborhood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they’re young and ambitious. Lots of disposable income. Willing to gentrify your neighborhood at the drop of a cupcake.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The older neighborhood kids killed snakes and threw them in the garbage hole when it was burning and watched them sizzle and squirm. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I already walk four other kids who live in the Cherry Hill neighborhood, so two more isn’t a big deal. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“He probably isn’t,” Kaori had said as we made our way to the boy’s neighborhood. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I met them almost five years ago, when I was eleven, after the Brysons left the neighborhood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There had been dances and cornhuskings and candymakings throughout the neighborhood; there had been afternoons of horseshoe pitching and evenings of charades. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a loud voice that swept through the sleeping neighborhood, he called to his family, “Stand by for a fighter pilot.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half the people in this neighborhood don’t have jobs, all they have for entertainment is what they can make up.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Enrique looks across the rolling hills to the neighborhood where he and his mother lived and where Belky still lives with their mother’s family. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood was full of dogs, so he was accustomed to their barking. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It looked like half the neighborhood had shown up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Trampita came up with a plan one day to catch fish and sell them for a nickel apiece to kids in our neighborhood. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They lived in a Tampa neighborhood where the houses were only a few feet apart. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody loved Dodo, although the swelling size of her family was the talk of the neighborhood. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They rode the rest of the way in silence, Spoon driving carefully as the clean, well-kept buildings in the quiet white neighborhoods gave way to shabby houses on streets filled with black children and garbage. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read about Dr. King going to Chicago to protest segregated neighborhoods and being attacked by a mob of angry white people who threw rocks at him. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The fact that Tigo died because of a senseless act reminded me of the way a guy in my neighborhood had died. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how the neighborhood was going to handle the death of a kid who was raised in front of everyone’s eyes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the night of February 26, 2012, Martin had engaged in an altercation with Zimmerman, who was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the Sanford, Florida, gated community in which the confrontation took place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We heard they moved out of The Wells after the incident, but nobody in the neighborhood knew where they went. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Popcorn was the neighborhood’s only openly gay man. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of reckless use of explosives that wouldn't have been sensible in a combat zone, much less in a poor black neighborhood in Dothan, Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I live in a neighborhood where the sounds of gunshots are my lullaby. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My room looks out over the main street in the neighborhood. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He grew up in one of the few white households in a poor black neighborhood of St. Louis, where his parents had moved to start a church, which failed to take off. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike half the children from his neighborhood, he completes elementary school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow, crowded bazaar in a neighborhood that Rasheed said was one of Kabul’s wealthier ones. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The free neighborhood Wi-Fi is super slow, but I’m still able to copy and paste Quinton’s missing person’s poster onto a dozen websites. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t be seen in my neighborhood, and I dared not travel in his, especially not at night. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get that just about every day in the neighborhood now. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The force of the blast radiated through the neighborhood, bending trees and signposts and blowing out windows. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I ended up not where we’d come from, but in an unfamiliar neighborhood that nevertheless seemed familiar because it looked so much like a neighborhood I knew my mother would want to live in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ghostly voices from the past recalling when he was a little boy and the kids in the neighborhood came to the back door after supper calling him to go out and play. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to be a genius to notice that the white-people neighborhood was much nicer than our neighborhood. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Cissy had her own theory about what was happening in her neighborhood. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I know this neighborhood quite well because Marv used to come here a lot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Most walkers walked to the left down Portal Avenue toward some of the other neighborhoods, but to the right—up Portal Ave.—is where Chestnut Homes were. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clients seemed so surprised to work with a painter or contractor they could trust and recommend that through referrals and in rapid succession Zeitoun would get a half-dozen jobs in any given neighborhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I mean, the neighborhood is messed up. What are people gonna think about us leaving instead of helping fix it?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe he should make a special campaign in that neighborhood this year. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would've thought they lived perfect lives, in perfect neighborhoods, in perfect houses with clean windows and green grass. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were out of their neighborhood, and weren’t nearly as confident as they would have been if they had been in Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s parents in my neighborhood work in factories, so the idea of a “business trip” is foreign to me, but I don’t ask any questions so he doesn’t think I’m stupid. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Everybody in the neighborhood will know and nobody will forget. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The Mackays’ house used to be one of the nicest in their neighborhood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is painting scenes from their neighborhood—parks, street scenes, almost all of them within a short walk of the apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The houses in the neighborhood were old but freshly painted, some in bright colors like lavender or kelly green. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel ushered us out of the trailer immediately after our brief tour, and we walked through the neighborhood, a series of trailers and mobile homes on dirt roads. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The cops thought the person who had tipped them off deserved the credit, but the neighborhood knew better. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Their seclusion helps keep the neighborhood safe, which is important to the Links. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought maybe you were helping scope out the neighborhood,” the leader told Natalie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The secrecy was required because if it were known there would be trouble among the young men in the neighborhood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the buildings in this neighborhood—her mother had called it Vista Heights—looked like they’d topple over with one good gust of wind. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

You remember the image: a menacing, glistening heap of firearms surrounded by the mayor, the police chief, the neighborhood activists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood, Jack told us, was full of New York City cops, most of them retired. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six years was the longest we'd lived in any house, and I had become hopelessly attached to our San Jose neighborhood. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Papa told her about this strange neighborhood: how its families had been Americans for more than a hundred years back; how they were mostly Scotch, English and Welsh extraction. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t live in this neighborhood,” answered Charlotte. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They are thinking about going to a yard sale in the neighborhood one Saturday morning, playing Bengali songs on the stereo. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Kiki and she had grown up and still lived in the neighborhood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little girl who lived in the neighborhood had been killed. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One summer afternoon—in my sixth year—while peering under the swinging doors of the neighborhood saloon, a black man caught hold of my arm and dragged me into its smoky and noisy depths. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It slowed finally, after Guitar took him to his first Southside party, and after he found himself effortlessly popular with girls of his own age and in his own neighborhood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could at least give him a small neighborhood to demolish,” suggested Ruza. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That is, a student who opted out of his neighborhood school was more likely to graduate whether or not he actually won the opportunity to go to a new school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The blast shattered the windows and rocked the walls of houses throughout the neighborhood. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He’d get lost if he tried to find his way back to New York from her neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Correction: she used to train them, which was pretty awesome, especially when you got to cowboy around the neighborhood or watch the Preakness from luxury box seats with unlimited Coke and shrimp. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Everything is fine, but I have something crazy to tell you. Did you know the cops are looking for another guy from your neighborhood with your name for killing a cop?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the neighborhood has one and all of the black people on Soul Train. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Word spread around the neighborhood, and folks think she’s the witness they been talking ’bout on the news.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A week after three of the four kids in my neighborhood were buried, the president made a formal address to the nation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Which is still way more than I’m going to make today, she thought, since the whole neighborhood has already filled up on cheap lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Well, Big Ma had gone down to Friendship Baptist Church to hear Senator Kennedy tell the black people they were American citizens who deserved decent homes, decent education for their children, safe neighborhoods, and opportunities. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t care for the neighborhood much—too yuppie and white for my comfort—but the festival is free and it’s outdoors. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of what I remember from my first five years in Juba was the happy sound of people in my family and neighborhood. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the police got so many complaints from his neighbors that they told him he couldn’t shoot off any more rockets in that neighborhood. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie was a neighborhood heroine for a while but as time passed, the neighborhood forgot the murdering pervert. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While crack use was hardly a black-only phenomenon, it hit black neighborhoods much harder than most. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

For an hour she trailed her: all the way down 86th Street and around the neighborhood and back home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why would Governor Wallace come to our neighborhood? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have the job of looking after some of the elderly and infirm parishioners in this neighborhood,” he declared. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Following the tradition of the region, teens and older children prowled their neighborhoods. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Six days a week, I take the bus across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to where Miss Leefolt and all her white friends live, in a neighborhood call Belhaven. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the money could only be spent for the betterment of the city—specifically the Vista Heights neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As my father says, we live in a neighborhood, but we rarely see the neighbors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Only one small community along Dawes’s ride appeared to get the message, a few farmers in a neighborhood called Waltham Farms. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A typical schoolyard playground in a white neighborhood, with plenty of equipment and children at play. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My purpose had always been to see past my neighborhood—to look ahead and overcome. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

First off, Shea was one of the most respected young hustlers in the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Just a few houses away from ours, next to the yard of two neighborhood boys named Trent and Grant, something blue glinted under the streetlight. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I'm going to need to take life from what I can find in the neighborhood around me in Bakersfield to landscape this place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I thought I had poked my nose into every bit of conceivable business in the neighborhood; if something was being sold next door, then I certainly wanted to know about it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was becoming too “rich” for the kids from the neighborhood and too “poor” for the kids at school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe you woke up my entire neighborhood at five forty-three for no reason." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood might not have trusted Nazario completely, maybe even been a bit afraid of him, but people were more than grateful that he was on their side. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The family friends and neighborhood folks were crying. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell me something I’ve always wondered. Why don’t you ever rob people in richer neighborhoods? They probably expect it less and are carrying more. You wouldn’t have to rob as many times then.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that the neighborhood was really quiet. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The boy should be in school, in a home, playing with neighborhood kids. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The third of four children, I had been preceded to a neighborhood Roman Catholic school by an older brother and sister. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go into neighborhoods I didn’t even know existed, looping and zigzagging with no real destination. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A beat cop from the neighborhood strolls in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One excellent reason for living close to dassies was that they would give a swift warning of anything dangerous in the neighborhood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you don't like the idea of asking Ethan, would you like to ask one of your friends from the old neighborhood?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few days ago, as we were taking a stroll around our neighborhood square, Father began to talk about going into hiding. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If a black person says diverse neighborhood, they are thinking forty percent black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like when I was little, and there was this one time that I walked down the street in my neighborhood. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the neighborhood where he lived he passed through a certain narrow street that was flanked on one side by a smoke-blackened brick warehouse. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

However, only minutes after we left the neighborhood, Raizel chased down a passing hansom cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This was okay with me because like I’d told the doctor the kids in my neighborhood were pretty mean. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe had come up with a scheme for profiting from the arrival of these throngs in his father’s new neighborhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some days, she brings out cookies tells us stories of the old neighborhood when everyone was German or Irish and even some Italians down by Wilson Avenue. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

For four months of the year he attended to patients in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and lived as a bachelor in a grubby church rectory in a poor neighborhood called Roxbury. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When he tired of making faces, he carried me to the dormer window, where, together, from the opposite ends of life, we gazed down at our leafy neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They have been employed to instruct us in the whole range of our institutional virtues, from the White House to your neighborhood savings bank. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except the books were not the musty, cloth-bound kind with gold lettering, but books like you might find at any bookstore now, like he’d just waltzed over to his neighborhood bookseller—or ordered UPS. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Among the regular worshippers were many poor and homeless people from the neighborhood. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But for a long time people in the neighborhood have called me the “wishtree.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we turn into a neighborhood where some kids who definitely look like eighth graders get on and go straight to the back of the bus. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just ’cause I’m tired of them patrolling my neighborhood like we’re all criminals, I’m in the wrong? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones had been a postman in her neighborhood since before Papa was born. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Only two dogs lived in my neighborhood: Mitzy, who always rode shotgun in Mrs. Hathaway’s purse, and a Saint Bernard who was sweet but grossed me out with his constant globs of slobber. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Freshen up? How? All she wears is that white sari, no makeup, no jewelry. The neighborhood's calling her 'Mother Teresa.'" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d told Calder he was beginning to wonder if there was a reason that everyone in his neighborhood was so unfriendly—like there was some huge secret he hadn’t figured out. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I make a cup of tea and join Dad and a group of neighborhood kids watching the show from the driveway. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Junito dropped out of high school when he was a sophomore and started selling drugs in the neighborhood. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once they were grown we let them out during the day to roam the neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had seen no robberies in his neighborhood thus far. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty disturbing to see war machines traverse the neighborhood you grew up in—and if that’s not troubling enough, the truck turns left, directly into the high school parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He paints outside, scenes from their neighborhood in Montmartre, buildings, people strolling in nearby parks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She told the grocer she had just moved into the neighborhood and would he trust her with a few groceries until Saturday payday? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d never considered that they might have to leave the neighborhood where they knew everyone on the block by name, age, and hairstyle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Within this angle there is a separate little neighborhood. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They circled the neighborhood of the music venue looking for street parking. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I thought back to my own childhood and my own neighborhood, and how the word “ghetto” got thrown around like a threat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Instead she watched a lot of reality television, visited Ms. Jones across the street, and took long walks around the neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Farmer had first met Father Jack when the priest was at St. Mary’s parish in Roxbury, one of Boston’s run-down, largely African American neighborhoods. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There were tons of dogs in their neighborhood back home. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Trotter moved into the neighborhood last year, I went over to introduce myself. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as if she forgot I just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually it was because there was some trouble in the neighborhood. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, after the sun had spent its force, I played ball with the neighborhood boys. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the only doctor in the neighborhood, so it would be unlikely that Hassan wouldn’t know him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now and then they heard whispered rumors to the effect that he was in the neighborhood. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around white neighborhoods the story went that the drowned boy was white and the stone thrower was black. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Many saloons also had the only washing facilities or public toilets in the neighborhood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I hate my house and my neighborhood. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t just Durham’s poor white neighborhoods that supported him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She also had a little business baking cookies for restaurants in the French Quarter, the fancy neighborhood across the canal. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I invited ten friends from school to come and play against my friends from the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In some neighborhoods, the young men would’ve been safer living in war zones. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“If I get in trouble for you, you gonna have to move to another neighborhood,” Char is saying. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A bicycle repairman was the closest thing to an auto mechanic available, and Howard’s shop was conveniently close to the neighborhoods of wealthy car owners. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

What those rich people don’t always know is that broken and forgotten neighborhoods were first built out of love. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The bread was for the birds; the food was for a poor family in our neighborhood. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Many families in underserved sections of big cities didn’t have grocery stores in their neighborhoods. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Hitler Youth divided the neighborhoods into sections, to make sure no house was overlooked. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá said, and she glanced around the neighborhood nervously, like she was expecting someone to step out of their house and attack us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One year, all the neighborhood children were invited to the birthday party of the Dixit girl. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood did have lots of kids—Maureen had real friends for the first time—and we all tended to hang out at the National Guard armory at the foot of the hill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We are a family-run business, and the neighborhood loves us. Being extra-attentive will remind people of how special our place is. It’s just the right touch.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon we would often be visited by one or more of the failed Beat poets who always, very coincidentally, seemed to find themselves in the neighborhood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I saw it in my mother’s stubborn belief in our neighborhood, her decision to stay rooted even as fear led many of her neighbors to pack up and move. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He wants me to go around this neighborhood in a green-and-purple suit? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad’s shouting was so loud that you could hear it throughout the neighborhood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But my cousins don’t move until they’re sure that Q’s car has turned the corner and driven several blocks out of the neighborhood. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about his friends back in his neighborhood, all of them gathered around the punch bowl. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The thing I can’t, won’t, mention to him is that I see Finch everywhere—in the hallways at school, on the street, in my neighborhood. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I went on missions to inspect fallen trees that needed removing, talked to neighborhood pastors who were upset about traffic or garbage collection, and often represented the mayor’s office at community functions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Monarchs, the neighborhood team I played for, had just lost a tournament the week before. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow covered the houses here, too—but where in Hazel’s neighborhood it let the ordinary borrow magic from it, these houses seemed to be lending their power to the snow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

From the outset, stories circulated on the street that crack and other drugs were being brought into black neighborhoods by the CIA. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It would be awful if her mom actually met Tina somewhere, but that didn't seem likely—her mom never talked to anybody in the neighborhood. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He lived out the winter in that ugly, neon-lit neighborhood, with its air full of the scent of popcorn, simmering hot dogs, and orange drink. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tucked her under my arm and went for the first time alone into a white neighborhood where there were wide clean streets and big white houses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sisters had all been enrolled at the neighborhood Catholic school only one block away from the house the Garcías had rented at the end of the summer. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Doubt it. They probably got these all around the neighborhood.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He talked a good deal on various topics, a litde politics, some city news and neighborhood gossip. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived up the hill from them, and for some time he’d seen Mia with her Brownie wandering the neighborhood, snapping pictures of this and that. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s ten years since Dad took over the neighborhood pizza parlor from Uncle Tony. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park and the hundreds of neighborhoods like it around the country became increasingly volatile, desperate islands where housing, schooling, and every other state- supplied service were left to deteriorate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The bus was packed with a motley group of men and women who represented the spectrum of ages, neighborhoods, backstories, and motivations. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Francie, along with the other neighborhood children, went through some of the Election rites without knowing their meaning or reason. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t like her kids playing in the neighborhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some I recognized from the neighborhood, but most I had never seen before. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At nineteen, Joe was at least four inches shorter than Ivy and only 155 pounds, but people in the neighborhood called him Crazy Joe because he seemed to enjoy violence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the hippie public school in my neighborhood. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Drivers shout the decision to the rest of the neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Women came to comfort her, and their husbands paid condolence calls and hoped inwardly that she would soon move to another neighborhood and spare them the obligation of continuous sympathy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This is where I see words swim in and around my neighborhood like dust from overhead train tracks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Watching the neighborhood go by—the sagging row homes, potholed roads, trash blowing around, tree bark tagged with graffiti—I wonder if Boy21 will really visit me tonight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want to show you around the neighborhood first," I tell him, which comes as a surprise to both of us. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My only friend in the neighborhood was an older boy named Fernando. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I arrive at Dell's office and we pretend, as always, that nothing has changed and we don't live in the same apartment complex on the same floor of the same neighborhood of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His parents and Petra’s parents set off immediately to search the neighborhood with the police. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s the most popular toy in the neighborhood, and when she isn’t nearby, I roll around in it proudly as the other children watch in awe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Factories, public enterprises, and neighborhoods have been ordered to produce two tons of toibee, according to Good Friends, a Buddhist charity with informants in North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was a normal thing in our neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I love my neighborhood of North River Heights, which is why it was so strange to be walking down these blocks feeling like it was all new to me suddenly. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Fuller, who would not speak at the meeting, counseled participating neighborhood leaders to avoid inflammatory rhetoric. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If two black boys, Jake Williams and DeShawn Williams, are born in the same neighborhood and into the same familial and economic circumstances, they would likely have similar life outcomes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes her partner was one of the brilliantine-haired neighborhood sheiks who was a snappy dancer and made her watch her steps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

These women lived in neighborhoods of swank brownstones and exclusive apartment houses, with doormen dressed like admirals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windy lives in a neighborhood where every home has a sign in the bushes advertising its brand of security system. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Besides in years to come, there would be no old neighborhood to come back to. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Switch knives came with the neighborhood where I lived. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Grover, he patrolled the neighborhood calmly, like a man of steel. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ronan and I run up the drive into my little neighborhood; we slow to a jog and then a walk. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I knew only that we were the best students coming out of what was thought to be a middling, mostly black school in a middling, mostly black neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the bus stops to let off the kids who live in the neighborhood near the hospital, I glance over at Silas. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Heather is walking with some of the little kids in her neighborhood so their mothers can stay home. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past neighbors whose eyes overflowed with desperation and depression, people who had watched their once-proud neighborhood become synonymous with the collapse of the American inner city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All the houses in the neighborhood used to be expensive, but now they’re all covered with a layer of black soot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The way these young men run around the neighborhood, acting like they're so tough. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Half the kids in the neighborhood are yours, Carlos.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He roamed through the neighborhoods of the rich. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, about thirty of the world’s most pathetic mongrels were slinking around the immediate neighborhood with hard-ons. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I make the right into my neighborhood, I see Leah’s car stopped at the light, waiting to make a left. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s the measles. They say they’re going around the neighborhood.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When walking Sophie through the neighborhood, my father feels not unlike the newly married senior stumbling behind his capricious young bride. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I know your kind: punks like you wander the streets of nice neighborhoods searching for prey. Just couldn’t resist the pretty white girl who’d locked her keys in her car, could ya?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I hate walking through my neighborhood because of the gangbangers and guys whistling from their cars, but today nobody even looks at me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Prisons should be for violent criminals, not mainly poor men from rough neighborhoods who get caught selling or using drugs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew no one in my neighborhood could stop those angry white men from riding through in their white sheets, holding flaming crosses. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

CUT TO: INTERIOR: Camera pans down aisles of neighborhood DRUGSTORE. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps telling her that Stephen has a concerning history of tormenting kids and that he patrols the neighborhood preying on them after school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Ma always says, “In this neighborhood, getting a child to adulthood is perilous.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Mom and Charlie were going at it for the whole neighborhood to hear. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was no graveyard in Circle Village and no one in the neighborhood named Emerson and no street called Loop Drive or Loop Avenue or Loop anything. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The hissing sprinklers are actually snakes in disguise, and he’s training them to eat all the neighborhood pets—which makes some twisted sense, because I’ve heard him complaining about barking dogs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Up until this year, I was at Barnaby Elementary, then Barnaby Middle, which are both public schools in my old neighborhood. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The only job I could get in my neighborhood was selling drugs—so I decided to pass. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, but she can’t. Welcome to the neighborhood, and thank you again.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went by his old West Baltimore neighborhood to pick up a package. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We walk and talk and each take turns dribbling our ball through the neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They are worn and torn; he is too tattered to be in this neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 million tons of American topsoil had become airborne in that single storm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So one thing I want to talk about is the neighborhood and how it has changed. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nice man, kinda old. I seen him around the neighborhood before taking some little kids to mass. I think they his granchirren.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adopting the phraseology of the neighborhood, he referred to his Brooklyn internship as going through Purgatory, when he wrote to his socially prominent fiancée in Boston. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I walk down the street and I feel good about it every day,” Miele, a gregarious figure with twinkling blue eyes and a taste for worn T-shirts and jeans, said of his neighborhood. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The mayhem spread from the gangs to the rest of the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You don't leave that little corner of your neighborhood too often, do you?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The reason why my neighborhood is filled with violence is because I live in the projects. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We all chip in the money and get pizza from the neighborhood. It’s tough, because no one ever has any cash. It’s like a big deal if we get pepperoni.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Los Angeles was on fire, plumes of smoke rising from neighborhoods all over the city. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The houses were unmarked and sat in the rows of tense neighborhoods like uncracked knuckles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They said what I knew for certain: that she looked like she didn't belong in our neighborhood or in our household. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasions that they ventured out of their neighborhoods, mill hands were immediately recognizable by their deathly white pallor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Woody thought about White Boy, his boy from the neighborhood, who picked up a job working at a restaurant called Poor Folks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His new father, Chris, told him that dirt roads did exist out in the countryside, but there were none in Salva’s new neighborhood. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, a bratty Hindi kid whose family had recently moved into the neighborhood told us that in his hometown, kite fighting had strict rules and regulations. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mary was only a kid, but she made a pact with herself at that moment: she would get her education and leave the neighborhood no matter what it took. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Jerome and I had chosen a home in an integrated neighborhood, some distance from where I’d grown up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I saw hardly any kids in the neighborhood. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They probably never thought regular kids from regular neighborhoods and regular schools would end up here. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Once a month at least we’d drive home and the neighborhood would be on fire. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, there was a small crowd of neighborhood kids and pedestrians buying lemonade from the stand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Cowslips are a delicacy among rabbits, and as a rule there are very few left by late May in the neighborhood of even a small warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing him with his wife, I understood why people in the neighborhood said he was distinguished. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a gated community, and I waited to get out through the neighborhood’s security sphincter. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep blacks out was the mantra of the Chicago Real Estate Board as blacks continued to pour into the city and push the boundaries of the Black Belt into white neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had divided Harmonee into three boroughs, or neighborhoods: the hero borough, the monster borough and the regular borough for all the regular people. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Even the high school kids in our neighborhood know better than to mess with Bennie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If normal sex was a great mystery in the neighborhood, criminal sex was an open book. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered when I envisioned the hate-filled Klan on the loose, posing a real threat against the nation’s homes, churches, and neighborhoods. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s no one else working in the building or in the neighborhood, you can hear every single step in the private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before long, however, interracial incidents in my neighborhood interrupted my sense of peace and serenity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So when I left I'm sure I was just another item on a long list of awful things that had happened in our neighborhood in the past year. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor was around girls like that—like Park's mom, like Tina, like most of the girls in the neighborhood—she wondered where they put their organs. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Remember, he lived in a neighborhood where screams were fairly commonplace. 3RD JUROR: Right! Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaders organized parades through the neighborhoods and meetings at union halls and in smoking rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And if they used a bit more salt than necessary those first few weeks, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood’s ghosts, the mother did not complain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Verdun section of Montreal was in no sense a dressy neighborhood, and I was convinced that every passer-by was giving me a second, basically censorious look. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A great fig tree spread its poisonous leaves over the surrounding area, making it the coolest in the neighborhood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That might be the neighborhood where Charles Monet’s girlfriends had lived, who knows. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is that fact pretty well known in the neighborhood in which the drugstore operated? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's my neighborhood, and I've been here long enough to know that guys like Tariq Johnson don't always get a fair shake. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then nineteen years ago, when Mr. Merritt passed away, he left Abuela some money to open a restaurant in his neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Moss looked out the window, watched as they crossed over the highway, saw downtown Oakland change into West Oakland, a neighborhood that still persisted in the face of too many changes to recount. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I found it lying on a curb in my neighborhood a couple years ago,” he said of the couch as he worked on setting up my PlayStation 2 on top of his footlocker. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gore doesn’t live in this neighborhood, and it shows. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve even walked through the whole length of it and come out the other side, into a neighborhood. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I had written on nearly all the windows in the neighborhood when a woman stopped me and drove me home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new people moving into our neighborhood probably think that our part of Bushwick can't get any louder than on a random Saturday night in July. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Stories about him and what had transpired after he left our house that last time were everywhere in our neighborhood. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In short order, I was tooling around the neighborhood with something approaching skill. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest tree in the neighborhood and its price was so high that no one could afford to buy it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week or so after Joe got home from the military, a tall, skinny neighborhood kid named Ivy walked up to him with a knife and asked if he wanted to start something. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Black looked at Needles, and you could tell he recognized him from the neighborhood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The sound of a party spills out into the sleeping neighborhood. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

To O’Brien, “out of the neighborhood” meant home to a ranch-style house in suburban Staten Island. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After introducing himself, he facilitated a conversation that would last about an hour, asking people to share their stories and describe their concerns about life in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As we turn in to our neighborhood, part of me begins to relax, while another part becomes more tense. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The short fat legs of Tubs Casper carried him through the neighborhood in what for him was record time. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then on to older neighborhoods like mine, where the houses are still nice, but have been around for a while, so still made of brick. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They owned their own home in a safe, affluent neighborhood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood behind his house was fully occupied now. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Telling myself how unlucky I was with my grammy in our little neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Bodega? Bodega lives in a lotta places. He has apartments all over the neighborhood. You got to have many places and juggle your place of dwellin’ in order to create confusion. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There is a small restaurant in my neighborhood that I love and that I’ve been telling my friends about for six months. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word around the neighborhood is that he lives off women. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a safe place for me in my own neighborhood. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solar neighborhood, the immediate environs of the Sun in space, includes the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people in my neighborhood figured they weren’t smart enough. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Following tradition, most of New Jersey’s fencing programs were clustered in wealthy neighborhoods or private schools. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But these people would probably never come to his neighborhood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I ever saw August in the neighborhood, at least that I remember. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s Friday afternoon after school, and we’re going to take you on a tour of our neighborhood. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s the one who suggested that a good way to “channel” my energy would be to start a coat drive in our neighborhood to benefit homeless people. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I” was the last word I was able to speak aloud, which is a terrible thing, but there it is, I would walk around the neighborhood saying, “I I I I.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I might have had more fun if the meetings had been in my neighborhood. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Jessie disappeared, and soon the chimes and bells of a newly installed water wall rang through the neighborhood. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A contributor to Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser who went by the initials “A. B.” could be seen poking around rainwater barrels in his neighborhood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A local police detective named Mark Robinson lived in Rindlisbacher’s neighborhood. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the neighborhood newspaper boy, I knew all the names on my route. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for why the three Keeley brothers were running around their neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon like crazed lunatics, grabbing all sorts of wacky stuff, well, it was their mother’s fault. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I missed everything about our old neighborhood, even the ginkgo trees. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The houses in the neighborhood had a miserable look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Oh, certainly, darling, you can tell everyone in the neighborhood. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He came up with the idea to invite some kids from the neighborhood to play a game of baseball with the kids from my school in a park near our house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Aside from the carbon-copy houses, there was nothing uniform about this working-class neighborhood; it was filled with people of all shapes, colors, and backgrounds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’d seen it in my own neighborhood, in my own family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The student body of the school was nearly 100 percent black, reflecting the racial makeup of the neighborhoods to the west. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each weekday morning Durham’s white neighborhoods were invaded by an army of black women—all dressed in identical gray-and-white maid’s uniforms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had been caught in some other neighborhood and was safe in jail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next step is to search the neighborhood. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The girls would scout and case in wealthy neighborhoods. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bicycle Bill...well, nobody really knew where Bicycle Bill came from, but he had lived in the neighborhood for as long as anybody could remember! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She converted one of the two bedrooms into a study and wrote there, standing often by the window to look down at her new Roland Park neighborhood, the restored row homes shielded by old trees. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t bother me that the apartment was in a rough neighborhood; we’d always lived in rough neighborhoods. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know that segregation isn’t dead—just look at schools and neighborhoods and workplaces, and you can see that it’s still all over America. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t go outside because of all the drug dealing in the neighborhood, but she told him she wished she could have flowers in her front yard. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’re driving through Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill, and these neighborhoods are like my face and body when I was in middle school—familiar but changing right before my eyes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Zebra Room was a neighborhood place with irregular hours. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nasser’s home, in the Broadmoor neighborhood adjacent to Uptown, had been flooded, and he’d come to the student association for shelter, knowing it was on higher ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Almost everybody in the neighborhood was there too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

People in my neighborhood would laugh to hear Max talk about other countries as if they're Disneyland. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Katie was ashamed to stay in the neighborhood after Johnny’s great spree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t changing diapers; I was out playing arcade games at the shop, running around the neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I knew that a poor education would probably land me in a “Negro” job, that lower level of employment in which so many of the neighborhood men seemed to be hopelessly stuck. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The whole neighborhood will think we are stranger than we already look. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lou Gehrig is in the seventh school district, otherwise known as the South Bronx, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had a feeling that he had been in this neighborhood before, and that there was a main thoroughfare not far away. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We kept on scouting neighborhoods for homeless shelters, community centers, training schools, drug rehabilitation clinics, halfway houses. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge William Lewis saw house after house in his neighborhood abandoned, saw the streets empty, saw the hearses constantly passing his home, and fled. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She’d never had to park in Manhattan before and circled the neighborhood for ten minutes before squeezing into a spot on 72nd Street. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama’s tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt he had to, given the neighborhood he grew up in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eden Park was a colored neighborhood adjacent to several black townships on the East Rand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every morning, Fufi would wait for us to leave, jump over the wall, and go roaming around the neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So they were stuck without much of an option aside from Wanda quitting the job she’d had for over a decade and uprooting themselves from the neighborhood where they’d built up a network. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the love we had for our whole neighborhood now only fits into this wood-frame house in the middle of a quiet block. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A three-floor brownstone, pretty much like every other house in the neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We stroll through the neighborhood, checking out the knots of people hustling one way or another. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when the government was encouraging families to eat at neighborhood canteens to reduce housework and allow women to work outside the family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Taino Towers. Fortieth floor. Got the best view in the neighborhood.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As I drove, I couldn’t help noticing that the streets were clogged with cars and people that did not belong in our neighborhood. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people living on North Third Street were mostly Mexicans and Indians who had moved into the neighborhood after the whites left for the suburbs and subdivided the big old houses into apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wes wondered where people like him were supposed to go once they’d been priced out of the old neighborhoods, once the land changed hands right under their feet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I used to think the sun shone brighter out here in Uncle Carlos’s neighborhood, but today it really does—there’s no smoke lingering, and the air is fresher. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We quizzed everyone we met, from pastors to professors to the manager of the neighborhood McDonald’s, asking them to identify the most interesting young people they knew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The priest knocked on every door in the neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was officially an accepted member of the neighborhood tribe. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The one part I remember distinctly was walking around the neighborhood at night. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It felt strange to be speeding through the streets of this neighborhood where I didn’t belong, in a truck where I didn’t belong, with my brother hurt and my sister sick. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fire was in the back of a one-story house in a residential neighborhood, in the kitchen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

President Ronald Reagan officially announced the current drug war in 1982, before crack became an issue in the media or a crisis in poor black neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He spends more time on the streets of Carrizal, which is controlled by the Poison gang and is quickly becoming one of Tegucigalpa’s toughest neighborhoods. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

All over the neighborhood, the dogs were mad with hunger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In my neighborhood alone, hundreds upon hundreds of us are weaving our roots into the soil like knitters on a mission. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The core of the core lives in Pyongyang in large apartments or single-family homes in gated neighborhoods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They remind you how rough the neighborhood can get, and they promise to protect you. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fairfax County—beautiful neighborhoods, lakes, golf courses, expensive homes, good schools, and Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rich may have always set the standards, Schor said, the actual social competition used to be played out largely at the neighborhood level, among people in roughly the same class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Christine commuted from Portsmouth for a short time before moving her family to Hampton after Sue Wilder tipped her off on a house for rent in her neighborhood. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In every state across our nation, African Americans—particularly in the poorest neighborhoods—are subjected to tactics and practices that would result in public outrage and scandal if committed in middle-class white neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And if sometimes she noticed the way the neighborhood kids avoided Vivi or the way their parents talked about her in low, worried voices, Jude didn’t think it was anything important. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I don’t know of a stretcher-bearer’s post in the neighborhood. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually on Saturday mornings, guys around the neighborhood have their cars on display, cruising up and down the street and racing each other. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But now all of us, the entire neighborhood, are expecting a hurricane. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And when she saw Satchmo, instead of doing the old lady wave and Hey, how's your mother, like some of the other grown-ups in the neighborhood, Ms. Adams just nodded slightly. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Zeitouns would see Frank and his wife occasionally in the neighborhood, and they always exchanged warm greetings. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She finds their Paris neighborhood daunting, though: “The bustle and activity of people and omnibuses—well it is just awful.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The car slowed as we turned into Gran’s neighborhood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Slowly, slowly,” Baba repeats as we pull out of the neighborhood, and then, as Mustafa passes a parked car, he yells, “Careful!” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to reestablish the lines that separated black and white communities and to intimidate black residents who crossed over into white neighborhoods, they bombed black homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, before he let his sisters go to Mass, he wanted to know as much as he could about what was going on, at least in their neighborhood. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I missed my old friends and my old neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"We tend to look the other way when it's in a residential neighborhood. But right here, on the town green, we have to enforce the law. Otherwise we'd have someone selling something every two feet." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He works fourteen- hour shifts in the neighborhood plant's friction stoves and always comes home rubbing his eyes from the smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This abandoned neighborhood just made him feel odd and uncomfortable. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we drive the tree-lined streets of our new neighborhood. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“My brothers told me that our new neighborhood is really loud. Good thing we have central air to keep out all that noise,” Georgia says in between spoonfuls of her chili. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Before Francie could speak up, a neighborhood bully, a boy of eighteen known as Punky Perkins, stepped forward and ordered the man to chuck the tree at him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song starts with shots of our neighborhood, then it moves from our quiet street, to Southridge Mall, the Islamic Center, and outside my school. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

TJ makes me walk with him around the neighborhood at least three days a week. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a tradition in the neighborhood that if a child reported that he had been whipped in school, he would receive a second homewhipping because he had not behaved in school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran the three blocks to Bruno Goll's drugstore, determined to do what no one else in the neighborhood had thought about doing: turn in a fire alarm. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young man settled in a working-class neighborhood, in a wooden shack that seemed like a palace to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the surrounding neighborhoods, cobblestone streets were lined with freshly painted town houses, shops, cafes, and parks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Our religion’s adherence to the Julian calendar has once again left us out of sync with the neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They take hot showers, speak to each other in English, ride their bicycles around the neighborhood. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I chose songs, I looked out the front window for my neighborhood friend. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even know this neighborhood existed, to be honest.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In our new neighborhood I can simply tell my parents “I'm going for a walk” and leave. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It’s all them white peoples that breaks me, standing around the colored neighborhood. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As the city’s streets cross St. Charles Avenue and enter this neighborhood, they gradually change from asphalt to gravel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no telling when they were coming into this neighborhood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’re probably thinking I won’t be able to relate to their grandson, that I might even be a liability for him in the new neighborhood, and I completely agree. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hired our da as a dishwasher and took us to a neighborhood like no place I’d ever seen—tall brick buildings packed together on narrow streets teeming with people. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, as I said, I’m out doing rounds to let everyone know that the Homeowners Association is making efforts to pool neighborhood resources. You know, to help each other out in this crisis....” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somebody who lives in the neighborhood is rounding the corner and heading for the Zebra Room . . . . . . following the line of tanks, I am no longer thinking about showing up my brother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In many of Seattle’s nicest hillside neighborhoods—places like Alki and Madrona and Magnolia—homes slid from eroding bluffs and tumbled into Lake Washington or Puget Sound. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The streets of Mamou’s neighborhood didn’t look so different from the streets back home: dull gray asphalt. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

You could go to any school, or live in any neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gussie, a boy of six, was a murky legend in the neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gay drove me home that evening, she prattled on about some girls my age in the neighborhood. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It is a poor and working-class neighborhood, and in the late 1990s, the drug trade in the area, particularly on Westchester Avenue and one street over on Elder Avenue, was brisk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I spent lots of time at the Crowell home, and I enjoyed being around Mrs. Crowell even though most all the women in our neighborhood kept their distance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe his dad had been bracing for the entire neighborhood to swarm the house with torches and pitchforks as soon as they saw Park with eyeliner. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Shooting broke out in the neighborhood, and artillery exploded nearby. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When my eyes aren’t closed I see what my neighborhood has become. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“They probably got a lot of roadblocks around the neighborhood tonight,” I tell him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In every battered neighborhood, Mariam found people materializing from the rubble and moving into the streets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I knew that someone in the neighborhood would eventually call a news crew, if they hadn’t already. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike on our side of the woods, it didn’t open up into a whole neighborhood full of houses. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Many of the newer immigrants from eastern European countries like Poland and Lithuania were relegated to the ramshackle houses just west of the Union Stock Yard in the neighborhood aptly called Back of the Yards. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally Roy stepped outside, lowered his head, and started trudging in the direction of his neighborhood. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows neighborhood Social Security, disability, and welfare checks come in first of the month. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the other kid knew the rhythms of the neighborhood, too, and let his guard down only during times he considered safe. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though we can go anywhere to get a slice, we take the train all the way to the North Side because we’re always looking for excuses to get out of our neighborhood. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had heard some of the kids in the neighborhood yell those names to Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some thought the priest was crazy to attract what they saw as bums and delinquents to their neighborhood and objected to helping migrants at all. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nobody in the neighborhood could ever tell who he was dressed as on Halloween. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali, Assef was by far the most relentless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tour finished, Father took them for a walk around the neighborhood. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Sunshine bakery was in the neighborhood, and the cookies would still be warm and delicious. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

People go too far with that “what side of the neighborhood you from” mess. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The shaded streets of his neighborhood are littered with sparkling fountains and bow-backed Scholar slaves. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All us neighborhood kids lined up along the side of the street to wave to him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they sallied forth together the neighborhood emptied suddenly of not only cats but of dogs as well. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing worse than having to fight for your crummy, ugly sister whom half the neighborhood is in love with. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson chose the Brooklyn Hospital Center over Wood- hull Medical and Mental Health Center, the city-run hospital that serves three of Brooklyn’s poorest neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I love seeing his neighborhood through his eyes, the way his memories occupy every block. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On weekends I hustled in front of the A&P, carrying packages for women, and sometimes I ran errands for neighborhood people. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with Aunt Sissy who came to the house so often, the way Sissy looked and the way the men in the neighborhood looked after Sissy when she passed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strutted around the neighborhood in groups, joking, laughing loudly, sometimes even calling after girls, with identical stupid, self-satisfied grins on their faces. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was probably a New Yorker raised in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Fuller’s boss, Robert Foust, backed the decision to bring in organization vehicles, reasoning that the primary purpose of Operation Breakthrough was, after all, to help neighborhood councils. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like she’s got a spell on everybody in the neighborhood. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

King Hill, as the neighborhood was called, consisted of three unpaved streets lined with red shotgun shacks and frame houses like the Colvins’. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

So what used to be mini neighborhood reservoirs are now all as dry as our sinks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was an immigrant neighborhood, mostly black and Hispanic. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Regardless, the panoramic scenes are the same from any neighborhood: red-orange sunrises, blue-black moonlit nights. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She hangs a right into a neighborhood and then follows a short curve around to a street on the left. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

In my neighborhood, instead of lawns there are fields of concrete and asphalt. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood of Indian Village lay just twelve blocks west of Hurlbut, but it was a different world altogether. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We walked for hours through the city, long meandering walks that took in whole neighborhoods which we would pass through without buying a thing or speaking to anyone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My mother. She was just wondering about you, and I told her the next time I found myself in your neighborhood, I would stop in and see your family." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You got your Tuesday game! I traded baby-sitting with this kid in my neighborhood. Stanford can’t make it. But everybody else is on!” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill, his favorite, was a big, silent man who was considered “peculiar” in the neighborhood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

That year our parents decided that we were old enough to roam the neighborhood unattended. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tariq's shooting made them want to "crack down" on the neighborhood, my dad said. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some have slipped out of sight, buying bigger and more lavish homes in neighborhoods increasingly insulated from the rest of Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

That same day, in a posh Berlin neighborhood near the Ministry of Public En-lightenment and Propaganda, Joseph and Magda Goebbels welcomed a new daughter into the world—a little brown-haired girl they named Hildegard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We drive through town and into a neighborhood. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Even with all our dinner table confrontations, I adored my grandparents and I was quickly making friends in the neighborhood. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the dark, it was easier than ever to see into the houses of the new neighborhood. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I shut off the water, I hear:...neighborhood known as Underhill. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew her from around the neighborhood, going way back. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, in the neighborhood, I pretty much leave him alone. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A too-patient voice with dividers between each word explained the legal procedures as if repeating a history lesson Carla's mother should have learned long before she had troubled the police or moved into this neighborhood. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s just no excuse. And you can’t make me think there is. Destroying your own neighborhood. That’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The people of Isfahan ventured to the center of the strange neighborhood to stand in line, before the famed bakery of Akh Tamar, just for six of his cream puffs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As we began our slow march through the neighborhood streets, I felt jittery about being the center of attention, but also kind of thrilled. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His task was to help rebuild neighborhoods and bring back jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Candice’s schedule held up as they hiked through the neighborhood—not a single Milo sighting. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The last time this happened we lived in a good apartment in a nice neighborhood, and we finally had somewhere stable to live. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a while they got hungry and decided to head to ABC, the fast-food Chinese food restaurant up the hill from their neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At least in the colored neighborhood, I don’t remember no high-rises. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That man spends all week drinking, and then come Friday, he’s walking around the neighborhood trying to sweat out all his demons to prepare to enter the good Lord’s house on Sunday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once he tries to call her collect from a public telephone in his neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Those murders were concentrated in a handful of neighborhoods, and the victims were concentrated in a single demographic: young black men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was little open space in the neighborhood, so Wilson and Green often drove just to go for a stroll. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To prove his point—to himself, at least—he climbed back up on his perch by the back vents and looked out on the quiet neighborhood. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not of the crowded corrals, but of the pretty West Side neighborhoods where wealthier Mexican families lived, their houses painted in yellows and oranges and pinks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew just about all the guys that lived in the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“So what? You Spanish, this is your neighborhood. You grew up here, got beat up here, and I hope beat someone up too. Sapito tells me you used to paint R.I.P.s?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

That evening my father and I went around the neighborhood to talk to the parents. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the kind of parents who name their son Jake don’t tend to live in the same neighborhoods or share economic circumstances with the kind of parents who name their son DeShawn. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s friend Ariana owned the bakery in Beacon Hill, my favorite neighborhood in all of Boston. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Almost all at once moviegoers spilled out of the neighborhood theaters into the street. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Do these people live in our neighborhood?" she asks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The river had curved around to the boundary of this neighborhood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today, Dub was directing them right into a run-down white neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said this happened to him all the time and that he would not even go into white neighborhoods because it sickened him to be called that. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it happened, you could hear the neighborhood erupt in one big, heavy groan. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He looks like he would live in the Cherry Hill neighborhood. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I think he sensed my frustration at living in mutually exclusive worlds and thought a game of baseball would bring together my neighborhood friends and my wealthier Riverdale classmates and broaden the horizons of both. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he was taking advantage of the people in his neighborhood—including my uncle—and he kinda-sorta pretended to be someone he wasn’t. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the current political climate, conservatives extol marriage as the solution to many of society’s ills, while liberals argue that it alone cannot compensate for the effects of imperiled neighborhoods and failing schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The small gathering settled down to business at a home in Ann’s neighborhood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was fine as long as your neighborhood’s fire department could handle your fire. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The invited people from Vocational were mixed with the neighborhood gang. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To his right, the flatlands of Berkeley and Oakland marched west—a vast checkerboard of neighborhoods, with several million people who probably did not want their morning interrupted by two monsters and a filthy demigod. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some had transferred to a nearby Catholic school, but many had left the neighborhood altogether. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yet we were all subject to the same weather and pests, the same neighborhood, and the same parental emotions toward our plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, pretty much, the coolest kid in our neighborhood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

You ride through one of the richest neighborhoods in Johannesburg, past palatial mansions and huge money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If my dad works in this neighborhood, he definitely has money to help us out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he found ice crystals on the chair he sat in to watch the neighborhood. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He supposed the neighborhood was quaint in its own way, but he thought it felt too safe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood I walk through has a line of houses that look all alike, with cars that glint and shine. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I sit on the porch steps, watching the neighborhood. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We spent two weeks wandering the neighborhood calling her name. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At least that was what all the parents in the neighborhood were saying all month long. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, when asked if she knew them, she pointedly said, “Not this man, here,” looking at her brother, “but I do believe I’ve noticed this fella around the neighborhood.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All up and down the business section of the neighborhood were burned-up stores. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He was seen all over the neighborhood preaching and playing handball. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A kid from Louie’s neighborhood was deemed feebleminded, institutionalized, and barely saved from sterilization through a frantic legal effort by his parents, funded by their Torrance neighbors. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Him. I know y’all moving, and I’m glad, but the neighborhood still needs more men like you. Even if you just running a store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The Colvins lived in King Hill, a neighborhood that meant “poor” or “inferior” to most who didn’t live there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Talk about camp and favorite teachers and the opening of the neighborhood swimming pool made her feel wistful. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the prettiest building in a neighborhood surrounded by run-down apartment buildings and scattered litter in the streets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We gave him a real nice send-off, whole neighborhood turned out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One of the moms across the street set up a sprinkler in her front yard, and soon all the kids in the neighborhood were running through the sprinkler and grabbing handfuls of Cheetos. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Apparently, cooking outside in Puerto Rico is an open invitation to everyone in the neighborhood. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At my new elementary school, an enormous place with hundreds of children from my neighborhood, my fourth-grade teacher singled me out one day. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The East Side of Detroit was a quiet neighborhood of singlefamily homes, shaded by cathedral elms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"I don't know what kind of neighborhood your father picked. The sooner we move, the better." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were five of them and they said stuff about kids in their neighborhood mostly. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All that church music bounced off project walls, circling its way around the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was no way their new neighborhood could be as rough as this, could it? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everywhere things seem as hopeless as my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We’d just finished playing a game of basketball and were leaving the courts when out of the corner of my eye I saw Shea, one of my friends from the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

High school kids from the neighborhood in black Dickies or baggy jeans, white wife-beaters, chains hanging off belt loops. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of other rats in the neighborhood. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Irish Justice of the Stockyards District Police Court, with jurisdiction over minor crimes in that neighborhood, dismissed more than eighty percent of claims brought against strikers accused of violent attacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before the aromas of the delicacies were captured in our most ornate box, they floated in the air, causing all the neighborhood animals to whine at our door. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“After tonight, brother, no one in this neighborhood will touch you or my sister ever again. I promise you that.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smells brighter, less like a city and more like a neighborhood. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The only reason white men came into our neighborhood was to hurt us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The best of times were snappy autumn afternoons when we'd finished moving a two-bedroom customer from Manhattan to some faraway neighborhood in Brooklyn or Queens. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed someone they all knew from the neighborhood, Marquette Frye, had been pulled over for drunk driving. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

By the time the Jazz Age marched in, the Hill was a bustling neighborhood full of music, theaters, gambling halls, and families. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Parents of such students need jobs and good housing; the students themselves need to grow up with three meals a day, in safe neighborhoods. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, regardless of Bodega’s activities, he was fixing up the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Oshiro was free to run around the neighborhood with packs of other kids, play in the streams, and roam the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In early March, the dogs in the neighborhood began to die, one after the other; their bodies were found slumped on doorsteps and on the streets. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We slept late every day, cruised around on our boards in the afternoons, and, except for some moms with little kids, we had the neighborhood to ourselves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I could’ve invited him to walk back to our neighborhood together, like we used to. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The damage to the neighborhood was extraordinary, but there was an odd calm in his heart. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mariam heard of a neighborhood widow who had ground some dried bread, laced it with rat poison, and fed it to all seven of her children. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because his family had owned their land back when the neighborhood was still cornfields. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Other times they ran with the neighborhood kids or stayed late to help Miss Bell. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Blocks away, where newly built mixed-income homes sat next to picturesque buildings like the gothic Church of the Advocate, built in 1887, was the direction the neighborhood wanted to go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He turned a corner and saw two ancient stone towers jutting into the sky, side by side, much taller than anything else in the neighborhood—maybe medieval watchtowers? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Imagine a city where every neighborhood had a different interface for connecting the fire hose to the hydrant. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Scattered through the neighborhoods was a network of reservoirs, many apparently stocked with fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“At your house, along with half the neighborhood, and your parents. Your mom is, like, threatening to call the police.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We assume, intuitively, that neighborhoods and social problems decline in some kind of steady progression. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took to wearing a leather jacket and a porkpie hat like legendary tenor man Lester Young, joined a neighborhood R&B band, and Ma had increasing difficulty in getting him to go to school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park was pretty sure he'd seen this guy around the neighborhood before. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Of all the too-cool knuckleheads running around this neighborhood, Jazz picked a good one, and I wanted to believe that was because she had a good example in me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a part of the neighborhood that belongs to a gang.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And a few fed-up souls began to push back against efforts of whites in nearby neighborhoods to lock them out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Self-hate is also part of the reason people in her neighborhood do not speak to each other about the impact of incarceration on their families and their lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My other best buddy—who coincidentally had the same first name, but let’s call him Tommy—lived on the other side of the woods in a pleasant working-class neighborhood made possible by the GI Bill. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But the TV pictures have already changed the neighborhood. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But while walking through this quiet and spacious white neighborhood, he did not feel the pull and mystery of the thing as strongly as he had in the movie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was then hopelessly lost in the streets of a small but endless town in the neighborhood of Medina, I think. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick drove us away from the hospital, back down into the neighborhood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhoods had been bombed before, but no one had ever been killed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Didn't Mom say it was trouble to have an empty place in the neighborhood? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It could be there still, in somebody’s backyard, but the cotton fields and the colored neighborhood around , them were churned up and pressed down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't think Mother, Papa, or Grandma wanted to go outside our neighborhood any more than I did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Soon as I get my family out of this neighborhood, they’ll be a whole lot better. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Lidell, it just seemed like the outside world didn’t grasp how easy it was for kids who grew up in poor neighborhoods to take that wrong turn. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But there was no denying its shadow over our neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How many here would know where to join a gang in their neighborhood?” she asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“And you have a feel for your neighborhood that Margie doesn’t. Think about it.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were also calls from our family and friends inquiring about my safety and warning us that the mob was continuing to search out and beat up people in our neighborhood. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood of Italian cafes, pizza restaurants, and topless bars. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t live in the neighborhood after the way Johnny was disgracing them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get off the freeway into Riverton Hills and pass all these gated neighborhoods. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And the other girl talks so bad about Northeast Portland, not knowing she is talking about Sam’s neighborhood. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I guess this lady figures if two high school kids have the balls to go trick-or-treating this late at night in the nicest neighborhood in town, we deserve some candy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But the high-rises in the neighborhood brought in all types of people that just didn’t take care of things like they should have. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to Finch’s neighborhood, I’m cruising along smoothly, like someone who’s been driving for years. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He would not be shocked if, come morning, there was twelve, thirteen feet of water covering the neighborhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There are Facebook pages for dozens of neighborhoods where people have started checking themselves in as safely evacuated and with access to water—because those two things don’t necessarily go together. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“They don’t pipe down soon, the whole neighborhood will turn out to watch.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I decided to take him for a stroll around the neighborhood. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The boutique clothing stores, several neighborhood art galleries, and other local restaurants and cafés were all part of the model. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Steering committee members decided to spend the day once again knocking on doors in black and white neighborhoods to bring people in for the evening session. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing remarkable about the small group; they looked like everyone else in the run-down working-class neighborhoods of East Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Chantal parks the car, I notice her looking every which way, as if making sure nothing is going to jump out of the corners of this neighborhood to attack us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was like a touchable map of our neighborhood. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sirens go off nearby, and it’s as hazy and smoky as the rest of the neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Each firehouse had a watchman who scanned the immediate neighborhood for flames or smoke during the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s been some crime in the neighborhood, and I don’t like being there alone.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A white cloud spinning across the TV has turned my neighborhood upside down, inside out. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My maman walked the streets of her neighborhood in itty-bitty miniskirts, with her long, wavy brown hair blowing freely in the wind. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Out in the city, Nok wound her way from the quiet neighborhood of the gym into the gritty heart of downtown. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Kids here are all colors; in my old neighborhood, everybody was black. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carmen found her dad, and I walked to my mom, who greeted people from the neighborhood as they found seats. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Its take- up rates are accordingly very high, with roughly half of the CPS students opting out of their neighborhood school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My sisters close to my age were not as interesting as the neighborhood boys who ran and climbed and didn’t mind getting dirty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The streetcar labored on, moving away from the landmarks she knew, the greengrocer’s, the movie theater, the fire hydrants and neighborhood newspaper stands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And soon the sky seemed to wrap itself around them, a glittering blanket to protect them from the awful sights and sounds and smells of their ruined neighborhood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Then what? We just like all the other sellouts who leave and turn their backs on the neighborhood. We can change stuff around here, but instead we run? That’s what you wanna teach our kids?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, a dozen small boys clung to the iron gate watching the neighborhood’s only horse being washed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while Mackenzie runs herself ragged in game temples, I wander through my neighborhood making random turns, maybe in search of my own boss key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Giant searchlights—the largest ever made and said to be visible sixty miles away—had been mounted on the Manufactures’ roof and swept the grounds and surrounding neighborhoods. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Alfred, Henry, and Spoon strolled around the neighborhood. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her mornings immobile in her chair, looking out the window at the bustle of the street, and observing the gradual decline of the neighborhood that in her youth had been so elegant. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, someone you knew was likely to hit and of course it was neighborhood news; if big enough a hit, neighborhood excitement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Crowell was different from the other black women who lived in my neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Theirs was the last house in the neighborhood to be built, but when they moved in the area was still so new that local maps showed it as woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a big deal—a few of the kids in her neighborhood had gay parents, and there were two gay teachers at her school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had just moved to our neighborhood from another city. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They hovered—happily, I’d say—between the hardscrabble Philadelphia neighborhoods they came from and a more cosmopolitan life they aspired to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

All the mansions in that neighborhood had iron grilles on the windows. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But in the neighborhood where J. T.’s gang operated, the path to a decent legitimate job was practically invisible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We didn’t want to be seen walking around our neighborhood with him, but the zoo was far enough away so we knew we’d be safe once we got there. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor was a Harvard man, interning at the neighborhood hospital. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roads in this downriver neighborhood were full of potholes, the curbs choked with weeds and litter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a bold yellow that stuck out in the drab neighborhood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Their uncle’s block, where half of the homes sat abandoned and burnt out, represented what the neighborhood had become. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When Ann complained how rough it was living on a dirt street, C.P. quickly pointed out that he knew all about that because he had grown up in just such a neighborhood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that meant he was working over Jewish neighborhoods now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Visitors who drive to this tiny town wonder why it has not been torn down, while pedestrians, who are residents of the neighborhood, simply look away when they pass it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like to stop in when I’m back in the neighborhood,” he said casually as he opened the door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No advantage there, Chino. Thass no secret. Anyone in El Barrio from the university of the street knows that the Italians controlled the neighborhood. They ran the numbahs, they ran the drugs.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But as long as he stays in his neighborhood, it is all he needs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Changing times equals more people like me coming to stay in white neighborhoods, standing in line at the carnival, wanting to see the doctor. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Others in the neighborhood go door-to-door, offering to burn household trash for change. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A lot of the stuff that gives my neighborhood a bad name, I don't really mess with. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It's my way of putting my stamp on the neighborhood. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Shiva took me under his wing, just like Alex used to do, and introduced me to some of the neighborhood kids, helping me feel more at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A recent influx of Hungarian Jews into our neighborhood had swelled their ranks, and they formed a small but highly vocal element of the school’s student population. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fuller understood that there are two routes to power in America—money and people—and dollars were in short supply in the neighborhoods he was trying to organize. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I start trembling and look around my neighborhood. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The smell of smoke lingered heavily in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe soldiers will no longer patrol our neighborhood, maybe I can jump rope after dark, maybe the whistles that tell Mother to push us under the bed will stop screeching. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood kids don’t know anything about anything else. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It looks nothing like my neighborhood back home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She would stick to her plan of moving through the city methodically, neighborhood by neighborhood, scoping out the streets and canals. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we were scheduled to play the winning team of another neighborhood league, a team with a reputation for wild, offensive slugging and poor fielding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She said she and Angela lived in the same neighborhood, and she would take her home. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Not with the fire department, which would know right away it was arson and dismiss it as another case of pyromania in a neighborhood crawling with firebugs. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, welcome to the neighborhood,” he said, sitting down at the table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The kids ran off to tell their friends in the neighborhood the good news. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sapo believed in Bodega because he knew other reasons why Bodega was renovating the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It seems for the most part, there’s one representative from every neighborhood family that hasn’t already left. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I panicked, expecting to see a picture of Nicole’s arm hooked through mine at the security gatehouse that blocked off her neighborhood. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I realize, sitting here in my car, watching my neighborhood wake up, that I can’t let my regret stop me anymore. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hi. I was in the neighborhood. Hope it’s okay I came by?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, not this side of the neighborhood. I'm from the west side.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The Eastern European immigrant in a neighborhood delicatessen speaks to me through a marinade of sounds, but I respond to his words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few months, Mrs. Wilkinson would round up the neighborhood children and distribute the sample toys Mr. Wilkinson had accumulated. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For months he had moved along the edge of the furor that raged among the adults of his family, of the neighborhood, and even of the church. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tear gas is just what the police use to shut down parties in black neighborhoods, like the club turning on the lights to tell everyone to go home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bella was unfazed and, in fact, began to sing the theme from Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood: It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was average with an above-average ambition to break out of my neighborhood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to tell Petra that all the kids in Tommy’s new neighborhood had crew cuts, but that was pretty nothing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I might not have been great, but I was better than most kids in my neighborhood.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the picture, can’t stop looking at her face, at how she looks like someone who lives in my neighborhood. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It's real hard to get out of the neighborhood without their stink on you. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That was what kids used to say in the neighborhood when they picked a fight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We drove out of the suburban neighborhood to a rural area outside Plant City where there were no traffic lights, just infrequent stop signs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what the neighborhood dogs would do without you, Miss Hyacinth. I thought Snuggles had gone to heaven when he tasted the other dog cookie you made.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“The whole neighborhood does,” Papa replied, looking right at her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I followed Ray outside, a giant web of lightning appeared in the sky like a crack in a glass, and lit up the neighborhood as bright as daytime for half a second. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And now, years later, Bodega and Nazario were running an entire neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She’d picked that neighborhood off a map because it looked about as far from their school as you could get without leaving the city. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This place had a deep association with my parents’ time, when the neighborhood was still young and full of people and not projects. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The mother reported her success all over the neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood also had its share of perverts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had not a single chain store in it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He expanded quickly from the little neighborhood business, the street- front store, for he had mastered enough language to deal with non-Korean suppliers and distributors in other cities and Europe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness swelled a familiar figure, wholly out of place in Faraday’s neighborhood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They wanted Mayor Beame to declare Fifth Avenue from 110th to Ninety-sixth to be its own little neighborhood, separate from East Harlem, called East Central Park. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad moved into a six-story flophouse in a more dilapidated neighborhood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The police plastered the neighborhood with wanted posters, advertising a sizable reward. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Building his campaign around reforming the city’s political system and better tending to its neglected neighborhoods, Washington won the election by a hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But once we made it through the beat-up neighborhood, we turned left instead of right, and we kept on driving. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She gave the same hungry and hopeful gaze to new kids moving into the neighborhood, hoping to find a friend among them. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Strangely, though, the breeze had stopped, so that the world seemed as lifeless as the neighborhood itself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Last year, he even got the school to hold a neighborhood cleanup day. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And as we moved through town, the numbers continued to climb as the neighborhoods changed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She knew that even in Pittsburgh, it was dangerous to go into the Polish or Irish neighborhoods because bad things happened to colored people, especially girls. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

On the stand Steve admitted to having seen Mr. Evans on the street in his neighborhood. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most likely, the “incident” was a lynching or the Klan torching a house or neighborhood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The address for Jack’s father was a Days Inn motel, far away from Annandale’s neighborhoods of sprawling homes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every black family in my neighborhood knew the familiar sound of a bomb exploding. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, I was playing hide-and-seek along the tracks with some of the neighborhood kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We busted back down the street away from the scene and took the long way around the neighborhood to Jill’s house. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t let that slow me down, I had to get out of this neighborhood as quick as I could. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bender said the homes in this neighborhood cost a fortune. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She was describing a Baltimore of twenty-five years ago and a neighborhood neither she nor Joe could rent in, but she didn’t know that, and never knew it, because they went to the City instead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly white people have served enough notice of their hostility to any blacks in their families and neighborhoods. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third morning after the rain, Luke’s stomach churned as he sat on his perch watching the neighborhood empty out. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of Muslim girls in his neighborhood and in his school, but this kid had probably never seen anyone dressed like that. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Slowly his attention returns to the scale model of the neighborhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m white, live in the same neighborhood, and had all of the same classes, I wanted out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two of them are from the other side of the fence, Liam’s neighborhood. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I’d never been to this neighborhood before, and eyes watched me from the dark spaces in the landscaping. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I have never seen her in this kind of neighborhood, peering into Chanel and Tiffany’s and gawking at the jewels glowing in the Bulgari windows. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Our parents have been returning discouraged; all the houses Ma likes are too expensive for Baba, and all the ones he likes are too small or not in "good" neighborhoods. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood surrounding the Professor’s store was made up of inexpensive apartment houses, little family-owned shops, and small, aging homes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like running up to it and knocking it down—letting it tumble to the ground with the rest of the fancy plans Wilfrido had for my neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He knew it would keep coming, would likely rise eight feet or more in his neighborhood, and more elsewhere. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, I suppose you’d say it was a multi-class neighborhood because both the houses and the kids ranged from wrecks to rich. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was only about five blocks away, but I didn’t want him to have to walk late at night with his wife and his two kids in our neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They must have driven in from other neighborhoods. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wind skips behind me, nudging me forward down the walk and then away from the main road, toward the older homes, his neighborhood, right beside the lake. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“What if Wilfrido wins tomorrow? What if the whole neighborhood changes?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The music is very funky, not like the straight-up gangsta rap music I usually hear in the neighborhood, although there is a lot of cursing. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jia Hong-yu, our district’s most famous Red Guard leader, had returned from Beijing and would give her report at a neighborhood meeting. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It, more than any other time, belonged to the whole neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Residents of the neighborhood are in absolute dismay. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or what if the Professor was innocent, but the somebody else who wasn’t really did live right in the neighborhood, as so many people seemed to think? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. The money should all be put back into the poor neighborhoods, back into education for children, to change the things that send people here.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down McIntosh Circle to the new neighborhood below us. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At night All the other cats In the neighborhood Can see him slink Around the corner, Or jump from the tree Like a splash of Milk. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our neighborhood accepted Needles for who he was. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In response to the national turmoil, the all-white Detroit police force has been raiding after-hours bars in the city’s black neighborhoods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I think of the neighborhood I see every day on the bus ride to school. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure my appointment is somewhere in this neighborhood. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They talk about who has left the neighborhood, or the latest school or health clinic to explode. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

"We grew up together. I'm older than Richie, but this is a small neighborhood, and I've put in my time at the Rail. . . ." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about it, the more concerned I became about all the young black boys and men in that neighborhood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I remember my home on Cross Street as my only place of safety and love—even in times when the Klan rode in our neighborhood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the summer, the older people of the neighborhood liked to sit on benches and scold the teenagers who cruised by on dirt bikes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Waylan’s store was one of my favorite places because going there was sometimes like going to a neighborhood party. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins and the neighborhood children crowded around me and Amil until we took them outside to the best spot for cricket. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That tree-lined neighborhood at the top of the smaller slope must be the Crest, Magdalys thought, where all the affluent Brooklynites were said to live, promenading along the streets astride their graceful duckbills. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Acting on a tip, they combed the North Point neighborhood in Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If a white person is saying a neighborhood is diverse, they mean nine percent black people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Just some tapes from the neighborhood,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to Garrett as we leave our neighborhood and take to the bike lane of a major avenue. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A white blanket spread over the neighborhood, covering garbage cans and the hulks of abandoned cars, so that the street looked fresh and full of promise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or rather, the two who she has are not in this neighborhood anymore, and her college friends are off traveling for the summer. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Regina’s financial circumstances had caused the family to move so frequently that Bobby never gained a sense of “neighborhood.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In that fashion, the security of these neighborhoods flowed downward and became the security of the bodies living there. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Lots of other kids lived in our neighborhood, which was known as the Tracks, and after school we all played together. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we get back to the neighborhood, Ava and June are playing hopscotch. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When asked what issue was most important to them, four of the five neighborhood councils organized by Operation Breakthrough that summer responded “housing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood is a fun neighborhood if you know what you’re doing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about saying something too, like I know a lot of good black men, but I also know my place in the neighborhood. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Retired folks walk through the neighborhood trying to be helpful. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And I knew that there were children born into these same caged neighborhoods on the Westside, these ghettos, each of which was as planned as any subdivision. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

From where I sat, the neighborhoods appeared placid and almost toylike, but the reality was in many cases far different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bus 209 is also known as the poor kid bus, because it goes to Brentwood Apartments and Forest Oaks, which are the bad neighborhoods with houses that don’t have basements for when tornadoes come. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They turned and went arguing back to the pool hall and I hurried out of the neighborhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thank you, ladies. And now, I am afraid that it is incumbent upon us to ask you to recommend to us a fine hotel in the neighborhood.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when there was no kerosene for the lamp, the boy would have to go sit by the side of the road and study under the street lamps with the rest of the neighborhood children. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t say my last name, because, in my old neighborhood, folks knew the Barneses were really poor. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

One was sure to become the envy of every kid in the neighborhood: a brand new Schwinn Stingray, the king of all bicycles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We get into his car, but he doesn't drive to get ice cream—he drives to the neighborhood park. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dark smoke curled into the sky over the rooftops of Podgórze, our neighborhood. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the neighborhood, other homes had been hit by all manner of debris. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’d walk around a neighborhood, hope someone came out, ask if they’d heard about a new baby around — something like that. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Instead people spread themselves through estuaries, sometimes grouping into neighborhoods, sometimes with each family on its own, its maize ground proudly separate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z