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Walter Dean Myers
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks! With a Introduction by Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner Varian Johnson and bonus material by Coretta Scott…
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An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks! With a Introduction by Newbery Award winner Kwame Alexander and bonus content by Coretta Scott King Award winner…
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks!
With an Introduction by National Ambassador of Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds and bonus material by Coretta Scott…
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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Richard Andersen,Dean Miller
This title introduces readers to children’s author Walter Dean Myers.
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Karen Burshtein
As a young child, Walter Dean Myers suffered from a speech impediment. As a way of dealing with it, he spent a lot of time reading. This boy who loved…
Amy Sickels
Walter Dean Myers published his first book in 1969, a picture book called Where Does The Day Go? Since then, he has published more than 80 books, including novels, biographies…
Elizabeth Hoover
Walter Dean Myers was a prolific author, penning over one hundred young adult and children’s books. According to the American Library Association, Myers won the Coretta Scott King Book Award…
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 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…
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 Sunrise over Fallujah, 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 Treasure of Lemon Brown, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories from a Coretta Scott King Honor winner, set on one block of 145th Street.
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.
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…
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…
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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.
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…
Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem –
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…
Originally published: New York: Delacorte Press, 2000.
Myers tells the story of Dr. King’s tireless pursuit of racial equality, set against the backdrop of key moments in the civil rights movement. Full color.
Powerful and soulful first-person poems are presented in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary New York City neighborhood, from teachers to jazz artists to nannies, capturing…
In this tragic and utterly authentic 1989 Newbery Honor Book about two friends in contemporary Harlem, Myers has captured the street milieu well, and the characters and the events ring…
It’s summertime in Harlem, and The Mouse (as he calls himself) and his friends look beyond dance contests and basketball for diversion. The rumor of a huge cash stash in…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of the system . As a way of coping with the horrific…
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…
