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Walter Dean Myers
Greg Slam Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He knows he’s got what it takes to go all the way to the top. Slam’s grades aren’t so…
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Walter Dean Myers was one of the best-loved and most influential writers of his generation. Originally published 15 years ago, this Coretta Scott King Honoree Jazz now features a new…
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Myrna Dee Marler
Walter Dean Myers, acclaimed author of African American books for children and young adults, published his first book, Where Does the Day Go? in 1969.
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he…
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Walter Dean Myers, pre-eminent author of teen fiction and verse, refines the image of black characters that are trivialized or vilified in juvenile literature, advertising, television and film. This volume…
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Connie S Zitlow
Walter Dean Myers is recognized as one of young adult literatures most gifted authors. Yet his resume can seem almost too long. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s Monster, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s The Glory Field, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s Fallen Angels, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s Here In Harlem, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson sees the city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions as a possible escape from Harlem but fears the pressures that have sidelined his coach, Cal.
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A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s Treasure of Lemon Brown, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s Sunrise over Fallujah, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Denise M Jordan
Original edition published as Walter Dean Myers: writer for real teens –T.p. verso.
A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers’s Autobiography of My Dead Brother, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream. This concise study guide includes plot summary…
Follows a family’s two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead…
A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an often painful time of discovery for them both.
Meyers’ award-winning biography of Malcolm X–a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, an ALA Notable Children’s Book and Best Book for Young Adults, and a Library of Congress Children’s Book of…
Three orphans try to make their greatest wishes come true with a little luck and a lot of teamwork in this warm-hearted, funny story by Newbery Honor-winning author Walter Dean…
Walter Dean Myers celebrates the African experience in America with a soulful, affecting blues poem. Accompanied by Christopher Myers’s bold paintings, Blues Journey creates its own resonant music. Time line…
Myers returns to the world of his prize-winning collection 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. These stories go…
Within days of moving to 116th Street in New York, Stuff meets Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Gloria. The group grows close that year, and shares a series of memorableQand…
Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II.
From a New York Times -bestselling author comes an innovative novel about the Civil War draft riots in New York City. Tackling hotbed issues of war, race, justice, and equality…
The derelict Stratford Arms is turned over to the Action Group to be cleaned up. But then the group realizes that there is an outrageous bunch of tenants living in…
In 1880, 15-year-old Artemis Bonner, an African-American New Yorker, travels to Tombstone, Arizona, to avenge the murder of his Uncle Ugly and to find his uncle’s hidden gold stake.
A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories from a Coretta Scott King Honor winner, set on one block of 145th Street.
Thirteen-year-old Darnell’s twin sister and the other members of the Corner Crew have doubts about his work on the school newspaper, but the article he writes about a homeless man…
Recruited by a small midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in…
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Fallen Angels, a gripping account of soldiers struggling to survive the Vietnam War, it and other classic novels by Myers are…
Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers (Brown Angels; The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner) tells the story of 12-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun. Though he…
Now in paperback–an unforgettable story of hope, friendship, and compassion by the Printz Award-winning author, who weaves a richly layered tale of a boy’s journey of self-discovery and the acceptance…
In 2035, Dahlia Grillo, a sixteen-year-old math whiz, joins with six other American teens traveling to England to meet with groups from around the world in hopes of stopping C8…
For use in schools and libraries only. Profiles the life of the Muhammad Ali, from his childhood in Kentucky to his career as a heavyweight boxer who won the sport’s…
The thing was that me and Rise were blood brothers, but sometimes I really didn’t know him. As Jesse fills his sketchbook with drawings and portraits of Rise, he tries…
A New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist delivers this novel about a high-school basketball player looking for success on and off the court.
A New York Times -bestselling author and National Book Award finalist delivers this novel about a high-school basketball player looking for success on and off the court.
Includes an interview with the author and an excerpt from his novel, Lockdown.
A New York Times -bestselling author takes readers into the world of Progress juvenile detention facility. It is possible for 14-year-old Reese to get a second chance when he’s treated…
Walter Dean Myers enjoys speaking with kids in schools and juvenile detention facilities about writing and making positive decisions. He says, I have enormous faith in young people. What’s it…
A New York Times -bestselling author and the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature delivers a touching and raw teen novel about the friendship between two boys drawn together…
This is the story of Darius & Twig Two best friends.Twig is a runner. That’s how he’s going to make it.Darius is a writer. He has to find out how…
For use in schools and libraries only. An award-winning author guides readers through the writing process, and includes examples from his own works, outlines for writing fiction and nonfiction, and…
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century. Set against key moments of the civil rights movement, here is the story of…
Sixteen-year-old Jimmy, on probation for assault, talks about life with three old men in a Harlem barbershop and hears about the tools he can use to get what he wants.
A classic Myers novel set in Harlem is reissued, and continues to bear witness to the difference a caring adult can make in the life of a young person. An…
