This book trailer.....
The 'Hood
Three authors, a librarian, and a kid
Anime Mania or Animania
100

This book trailer is actually a preview for an upcoming film that explains how two super-human heroes from different Universes who team up again and end up k-i-s-s-i-n-g.

Spider-man and Spider-Gwen Sitting in a Tree


100

The name Bushwick comes from the Dutch word “boswijck,” meaning “heavy woods” because when they got here in 1638 and bought the land from the Native American Canarsie tribe, they saw that there were a lot of THESE around.

  


Trees


100
Whitney, a kid from Meridian, ID, describes this story of a 13-yr old artist who gets into a batch of experimental paints which give her super-hero powers.

Primer



100

"Gotta catch 'em all!" is the catch-phrase of this well-known anime about a boy and the pocket monsters that work with him.

Pokémon 


200

This book trailer will show you what happens when The Wimpy Kid's best friend decides to write his own adventure story.

Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure


200

This Bushwick native has been on both sides of the law: he is a retired police captain and former felon, and now has risen to be the Mayor of New York City.

Eric Adams


200

This new DC Comics super-hero is a teenage girl who uses scientifically enhanced body paints to enhance herself to have such super powers as flight, super strength, stretchy body, super speed, and teleportation.

Primer


200

Naruto Uzumaki, a young man who is actually the reincarnation of the menacing nine-tailed Kurama beast, strives to one be come one of these.



Ninja



300
This book trailer involves a group of best friends who decide to use their talents, their brains, and their friendship start a business.... and they find it's not all child's play.

The Baby-Sitters Club

300

Bushwick native Rosie Perez is an actress, dancer, and choreographer with a strong Brooklyn accent and who is proudly of THIS very common NYC nationality. 

 

Puetro Rican or Boriqua


300

In this clip of a librarian reviewing books, you'll learn how a girl overcomes her fear of making new friends when she becomes the new parent of a fire-breathing mythical creature that hatches from an egg.

City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm


300

This anime, which comes from the world's most popular manga, is set to become a new live-action Netflix show in 2023.

One Piece


400

In this trailer, we'll see how a kid who sells charcoal for a living deals with his family being slaughtered, his sister being turned into demon, and a band of misfit samurais for partners.

Demon Slayer




400

Richard William Stephen Shaw, who died in 2019, was a Jamaican-American rapper, and founding member of Texas hip hop group Geto Boys. When he joined Geto Boys in 1986, he originally joined as a breakdancer in 1986 as Little Billy, but later replaced the "Little" with a THIS name that told people where in Brooklyn he was born.


Bushwick Bill


400

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an acclaimed African American journalist and author of books about African Americans, racism, and white supremacy. He also happens to be a big fan of comics, especially the powerful king of the kingdom of Wakanda, so he combined discussions race with his love of comics when he wrote this graphic novel series.

Black Panther: A Nation at Our Feet



400

In the anime ‘Hunter X Hunter’, the character Killua (shown below) comes from a family that is famous for being in what profession?


Assassination or Assassins





500

In this book trailer, we meet a young girl from New York who is not only The Smartest Person on the Planet, but who also adopts a giant prehistoric reptile.... and loans her brain to it from time to time.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur


500

Ten Eyck Playground in Bushwick gets its stange-sounding name from the last name of the Dutch settlers who came here in the 1600's. Translated, the name means "at the ___", with the blank being the Dutch word for THIS kind of tree, found in Bushwick as well as Holland.


Oak

500

This author describes her latest book: the story of how COVID-19 divides a family by thousands of miles and causes anti-Chinese racism to surface in that family's new home: the USA.

New from Here



500

When it comes to having super-powers, this green-haired, antenna wearing teenager named Saiki K --from "The Disasterous Life of Saiki K"-- has lots of them, and by naming THREE of them, you could score 500 points for your team.


Psychic powers

  • Petrification (without his glasses)
  • Telepathy
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Durability
  • Teleportation
  • Flight/levitation
  • Hypnosis
  • Clairvoyance
  • Astral projection
  • Bilocation/duplication
  • Telekinesis
  • Shapeshifting
  • Elemental manipulation
  • Size-shifting
  • Invisibility
  • Mind control
  • Memory alteration
  • Psychometry (without his transparent gloves)
  • Energy manipulation
  • Genetics manipulation
  • Mediumship
  • Precognition