Walter Dean Meyers, Author, Walter Dean Myers, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14 (150p) ISBN 978-0-385-30687-4
T.J., his younger brother Moondance and their best friend Mop are together again in a sequel to Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid. This time their baseball team is participating in a tournament with two other American teams and three foreign teams. T.J.
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic Press $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-590-34186-8
PW gave a starred review to this ""stark slice of realism"" about an African American teenager getting to know his ex-convict father. Ages 10-up. (Sept.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTeen/Amistad $16.99 (186p) ISBN 978-0-06-121477-6
Using both harsh realism and a dose of the fantastic, Myers (Game
) introduces an inner-city teen in the jaws of a crisis: 17-year-old Lil J is holed up in an abandoned building, believed to have shot an undercover cop in a drug bust, while police...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-06-024364-7
Jamal is caught in a tightening web of trouble; his older brother Randy sends word from prison for him to take over as leader of his gang, the Scorpions. But the older members of the gang challenge his authority, first with taunts and then with...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins/Amistad $16.99 (247p) ISBN 978-0-06-121480-6
Maurice “Reese” Anderson is sentenced to 38 months in Progress, a juvenile detention center in New York, for stealing prescription forms for use in a drug-dealing operation. After 22 months, Reese, now age 14, is assigned to a work-releas
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Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic Press, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-91626-4
Four smart but underachieving students—Zander, LaShonda, Bobbi, and Kambui—at a Harlem school for the gifted and talented star in Myers’s (Sunrise over Fallujah) thought-provoking if occasionally heavy-handed first installment of the Cruisers series.
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-440356-6
In rhythmic vernacular, the Newbery Honor author brings to life the summer misadventures of a 14-year-old Harlem youth. Ages 10-14. (May)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTempest/Amistad $6.95 (, $6.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-440731-1
. "Myers bends the novel form for this riveting courtroom drama that explores the guilt or innocence of a teenage boy involved in a murder," wrote PW
in a Best Books citation. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Polaris $4.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-590-66221-5
In a starred review, PW admired this ""carefully researched biography,"" which, ""with incisive, precise prose... chronicles the labyrinthine path of Malcolm's life."" Ages 10-13. (Jan.)...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic Press $17.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-590-48669-9
Myers's (Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary) discovery of a packet of letters in a rare books shop in London planted the seeds for this fascinating biography, which reconstructs the remarkable life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta. In 1850, orphaned and held...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-022917-7
Myers ( Scorpions ; Now Is Your Time! ) gathers a stirring collection of turn-of-the-century photographs of black children and sets them to poetry, his verse alternating between the music of 19th-century hymns and that of plain talk. The arresting...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-385-32096-2
Myers's ( Brown Angels ; Scorpions ) lively and uplifting novel focuses on a struggling middle-school student who finds a way to turn his life around. In a last-ditch attempt to prevent the principal from calling his parents (``and maybe even...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic $14.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-590-45897-9
Spanning nearly 250 years of African American history, this emotionally charged saga of the Lewis family traces an ongoing battle for freedom and equality. Beginning with young Muhammad Bilal's journey from Africa in 1753 and ending with a 1990s...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-590-40943-8
A tour of duty for a young soldier in Vietnam is vividly presented in Myers's exceptional novel. Ages 13-up. (May)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic Press $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-590-40942-1
Like A Rumor of War, Brothers, and the film Platoon, this tells the story of Vietnam from the foot soldier's point of view. Myers accomplishes his heartbreaking intent by pacing the book to mirror the grunt's life. The plot is simply a soldier's...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Egmont USA $16.99 (164p) ISBN 978-1-60684-000-9
Written in screenplay format like his Printz Award–winning Monster
, Myers's historical novel is set in 1863 New York City during the Civil War draft riots, which began as a protest against conscription and resulted in a clash between the
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic $15.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-590-48667-5
A love of basketball isn't necessary to enjoy this gritty, feelingly told tale, but it would certainly help. Myers (The Glory Field) uses contemporary urban black locutions to relay his narrator's view of the mean streets of Harlem, as well as...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Polaris $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-590-29912-1
""[Myers] seamlessly fuse[s] historical notes on the era with the activist's story... [a] carefully researched portrait of a deeply devoted individual,"" said PW in a starred review. Age 10-up. (Jan.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic $5.99 (266p) ISBN 978-0-590-48668-2
""Myers uses contemporary urban black locutions to relay his view of the mean streets of Harlem and to describe some heart-thumping hoop action in a novel that, like most good sports stories, is about more than just sports,"" said PW. Ages 12-up. (No
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $20 (166p) ISBN 978-0-15-202021-7
This eloquent photoessay, built around hundreds of black-and-white photographs (many from the author's own collection) tells an extraordinary history; a dramatic spread with photos of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois is followed by images of a
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Amistad Press $16.89 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-029524-0
Myers paints a fascinating picture of his childhood growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, with an adult's benefit of hindsight. His previous 145th Street: Short Stories conveys a more vivid sense of day-to-day life on Harlem's streets, and readers...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (87p) ISBN 978-0-14-032011-4
Award-winner Myers kicks off Arrow adventures with a fast, funny, suspenseful stoy related by Chris Arrow, 17. With his younger brother Ken, Chris hangs out in Granada, Spain, while their mother, an anthropologist, interviews families in the hills....
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-06-024343-2
The experiences of a group of Harlem teenagers come alive through Myers's use of their rhythmic vernacular. Mouse, 14, spends the summer playing basketball, preparing for a dance contest and--together with his pals--searching for a gangster's hidden
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18 (292p) ISBN 978-0-06-024370-8
Combining the emotional and plot-weaving powers of his novelist talents with a strong author's presence, Myers portrays the quests of individual Africans against the background of broader historical movements. Instead of a comprehensive, strict...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (140p) ISBN 978-0-06-020844-8
Uncle Ugly's tombstone reads: ``Here lies Ugly Ned Bonner, Once Alive--Now a Goner.'' Set in the late 1800s, this clever spoof chronicles Artemis Bonner's quest to avenge his uncle's death and to recover the treasure that rightfully belongs to his...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Scholastic $13.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-590-46484-0
In his preface, Newbery Honor book author Myers ( Scorpions ; Fallen Angels ) notes that Malcolm X's pivotal impact on the civil rights movement of the '60s was the result of his distinctive, dramatic approach: ``It was Malcolm's anger, his biting...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-32137-2
In a kind of literary Rear Window, Myers (The Blues of Flats Brown, reviewed above) uses 10 short stories to create snapshots of a pulsing, vibrant community with diverse ethnic threads, through all of its ups and downs. Beginning with the tale of a
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-440623-9
PW called this Newbery Honor novel about a 12-year-old caught up in the violence of Harlem gangs ""realistic, spare and almost unbearably sad."" Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Holiday $16.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1853-4
In nearly 60 poems, Myers (145th Street
) treats readers to a tour of Harlem's past and present, its hopes and fears, through the voices of narrators young and old. Together they create a pastiche of the community's fixtures, the church ("
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperCollins/ Amistad $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-029521-9
As in Myers's Handbook for Boys: A Novel, an older man imparts his experience and wisdom to a bright, receptive youth—in this case, 12-year-old narrator David. The author returns readers to Harlem's 145th Street, where David lives,...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-439-36841-4
Myers (Monster
) sketches a provocative picture of an intelligent, likable 16-year-old straddling two worlds: his neighborhood on 145th Street in Harlem and the privileged world of Wallingford, the boarding school where he is spending his senior...
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Walter Dean Myers, Egmont USA, $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60684-115-0
Given how often Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been reinvented, it's surprising that Bizet's famous opera has received little attention in the YA sphere (The Fortune of Carmen Navarro being a recent exception). Myers updates the classic story of
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTrophy/Amistad $5.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-447311-8
In this ALA Notable book originally published in 1978, a boy must make a decision about whether to act as accomplice to his thieving father, or reject the man's path and risk losing him.
Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-024822-2
A sequel to Brown Angels, which paired Myers's verse with turn-of-the-century photographs of African American children, Glorious Angels is comprised of just three poems (""The Mother,"" ""The Father,"" and ""The Village"") and reproduces antique...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTempest/Amistad $15.99 (223p) ISBN 978-0-06-029519-6
In this chilling cautionary tale, Myers revisits the themes of his Monster
and Scorpions
in a slightly more detached structure, but the outcome is every bit as moving. The novel opens with what serves as a cover sheet to a "Threat Analysis...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author , illus. by Christopher Myers. Holiday $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1613-4
This handsomely designed volume by the father-and-son creators of Harlem
succeeds as an introduction to the blues genre but lacks a story line to unify the disparate verses. The author begins with a history of the blues, tracing its roots to Africa
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-06-447289-0
A 12-year-old boy living in Harlem meets a man who says he's more than 300 years old and that he is a dream bearer. According to PW
, "Myers portrays a young man who, warts and all, emerges as a knowable and admirable hero." Ages 10-up.
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Walter Dean Myers, Author , read by Peter Francis James. Harper Children's Audio $24 (, unabridged, three cassettes, five hours, $24 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-008968-9
James's strong portrayals of the African-American men and boys in a Harlem barbershop aren't enough to help this audiobook overcome the preachy tone of Myers's novel. Duke, owner of a barbershop on 145th Street (familiar territory in...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTempest/Amistad $6.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-447288-3
"Myers paints a fascinating picture of his childhood growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, with an adult's benefit of hindsight," wrote PW. "What emerges is a clear sense of how one young man's gifts separate him from his peers,...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-447312-5
Myers penetrates the modeling world in this tale of a 16-year-old professional model living in New York City, first published in 1987, who learns some tough truths about what it takes. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperTempest/Amistad $6.99 (223p) ISBN 978-0-06-447290-6
"In this chilling cautionary tale, Myers revisits the themes of his Monster
and Scorpions
in a slightly more detached structure, but the outcome is every bit as moving," wrote PW
in a starred review. Ages 14-up. (Apr.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . HarperCollins/ Amistad $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-029146-4
Returning to the setting for his 145th Street: Short Stories, Myers (Monster) constructs a penetrating profile of a community through the brief appearances of characters who file through Duke Wilson's barbershop. The author juxtaposes a sketch...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-22916-2
In a starred review, PW called this collection of 10 stories set in Harlem, "a kind of literary Rear Window. Myers creates snapshots of a pulsing, vibrant community with diverse ethnic threads, through all of its ups and downs." Ages 12-up. (
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Harper-Tempest/Amistad $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-028079-6
Myers's (Monster
) compellingly readable novel in verse unfolds through an array of characters, all linked by Damien Battle and Junice Ambers—who both live in Harlem but come from very different worlds. Damien has been accepted to Brown...
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Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins/Amistad, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-196087-1
Printz-winner Myers (Monster) expertly turns a series of Socratic dialogues on the nature of the social contract into an engrossing and fast-paced novel that never feels preachy. Shortly after his father is killed by a stray bullet, Harlem teenager...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-439-36843-8
Myers's (Monster
) historical novel pays tribute to the many well-known African-Americans on the rise during Harlem's Renaissance, through the eyes of 16-year-old Mark Purvis. It's the summer of 1925, and Mark's family has just...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author . Scholastic $17.99 (290p) ISBN 978-0-439-91624-0
Here it is at last—the novel that will allow American teens to grapple intelligently and thoughtfully with the war in Iraq. Robin Perry, nephew of the soldier central to Myers's Vietnam novel Fallen Angels
, has joined up because, as he...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Javaka Steptoe, Illustrator , illus. by Javaka Steptoe. Scholastic $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-68041-7
Myers’s (Sunrise over Fallujah
) and Steptoe’s (In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall
) concept, recasting Swan Lake
as hip-hop, may sound unlikely, but in their hands it largely succeeds: the ultra-cool, emotionally hot setting gives the...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Walter Dean Myers, Illustrator, Walter Dean Myers, Photographer . Holiday $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1816-9
Myers (Now Is Your Time!
) offers a meticulously researched, fast-flowing chronicle of the historic Constellation
, originally launched from the port of Baltimore in 1797. By tracing the ship's history as one of three frigates built for the...
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Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman, HarperTeen, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-200489-5
This book has an intriguing concept: veteran author Myers paired with a teenage fan to write the story of a soccer player in trouble with the law. In their story, Kevin—the 13-year-old son of a police officer killed on duty—was arrested after...
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Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Alix Delinois. Collins/Amistad, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-029131-0
This artful biography of Muhammad Ali begins with his childhood in Louisville, Ky.—he started learning how to fight after his bicycle was stolen—and offers snapshots of his hard-earned career in the world of boxing. Myers (Looking Like Me) attends...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, John Speirs, Illustrator , illus. by John Speirs. Holiday $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1676-9
Myers (Monster) shifts gears to offer younger readers an entertaining swashbuckler set in 1420 Spain. The author sets up the conflict between the Moors and the Catholics in a way that the audience can understand easily: cats versus dogs. In cat-domin
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Ann Grifalconi, Illustrator Walter Dean Myers , illus. by Ann Grifalconi. HarperTrophy $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-073159-5
In a starred review, PW
called this an "unusual and gripping picture book set in Vietnam and geared to older readers," as the narrator comes face-to-face with an enemy soldier. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Ann Grifalconi, Illustrator , illus. by Ann Grifalconi. HarperCollins $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028363-6
Camouflage endpapers set the stage for Myers's (Handbook for Boys: A Novel, reviewed below) unusual and gripping picture book set in Vietnam and geared to older readers. "The land of my enemy/ has wide valleys,/ mountains that stretch/ along
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Ashley Bryan, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024286-2
Myers (Brown Angels) and Bryan (Sing to the Sun) make a dynamite team. Here, the hot colors, sweeping lines and stylized figures that characterize Bryan's art form a bold backdrop for the author's equally dramatic original fable. Long ago, Myers...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Walter D. Meyers, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-41157-4
A struggling middle school student finds a way to turn his life around when he works on the school newspaper; PW called this story ""lively"" and ""uplifting."" Ages 8-12. (Mar.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-80126-6
As in her Life Around the Lake (coauthored with Gloria Soto), Presilla again examines a little-known culture by means of its textile arts. This time her subject is the Cuna Indians, who inhabit the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, and the...
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Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Christopher Myers. Harper, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-052308-4
The father and son team behind Jazz and other award-winning titles pays homage to the entire United States in a soul-searching, free-verse poem examining the people, ideals, and promise of America. The verse journeys along a rough historical...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Illustrator , illus. by Christopher Myers. HarperTempest/ Amistad $15.99 (212p) ISBN 978-0-06-058291-3
Myers mines the themes he explored in his Scorpions
and Monster
here, but with less subtlety. Jesse, 15, chronicles the demise of his "blood brother," Rise, in the titular illustrated "autobiography." While readers do not see...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Illustrator , illus. by Christopher Myers. Holiday $18.95 (44p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1545-8
The father-and-son team behind blues journey
creates a scintillating paean to jazz. Walter Dean Myers infuses his lines (and the rests between them) with so much savvy syncopation that readers can't help but be swept up in the rhythms. "Stri
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Illustrator Amistad Press $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-028077-2
In this riveting courtroom drama, Steve Harmon, a Harlem teenager involved in a murder, recounts his trial in the form of a movie script. The objectivity with which he records testimony and flashbacks of events leading up to the crime (""Steve is...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Illustrator, Terry Deary, Author Scholastic Press $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-54340-8
This heartfelt tribute captures the many moods of Harlem, bringing to life a very real urban community steeped in cultural history. Myers begins his poem with the words ""Harlem was a promise/ Of a better life, of a place where a man didn't/ Have to
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Illustrator, Michael Dean Myers, Preface by , illus. by Christopher Myers. Scholastic $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-22000-2
The father-and-son team behind the Caldecott Honor book Harlem
recasts a half dozen episodes from the Bible with teen narrators, giving the audience new ways of viewing age-old stories. Assuming the perspectives of supporting players—including
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Leonard Jenkins, Illustrator , illus. by Leonard Jenkins. HarperTrophy/Amistad $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-056201-4
In this excellent picture-book biography, Myers focuses on the challenging childhood of Malcolm Little, who would grow up to be Malcolm X, and draws upon the man's own words to illustrate his leadership qualities. Jenkins's lifelike...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Leonard Jenkins, Illustrator , illus. by Leonard Jenkins. HarperCollins/Amistad $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027703-1
Although in their Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly
Myers and Jenkins concentrated a great deal on Malcolm X's childhood, in this concise chronicle of Martin Luther King Jr.'s crusade for civil rights, they highlight the pivotal points in...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Synthia Saint James, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-32057-3
Newbery Honor author Myers (Scorpions; Somewhere in the Darkness) again displays his versatility with this pithy and piquant fable. Repeatedly pulling the same dirty trick, Mr. Buzzard offers, for the price of an item of food, to carry a hare, an...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Synthia Saint James, Illustrator Yearling Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41415-5
In this ""pithy and piquant fable,"" Mr. Monkey outwits a trickster buzzard who has been bullying other animals out of food. ""Using repetition to humorous effect, Myers's tale dispenses its moral unequivocally,"" said PW. Ages 4-7. (Oct.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Nina Laden, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1480-2
An exceptionally talented junkyard dog gets his due in Myers's (Monster; Harlem) picture-book tribute to the blues. Though Flats would love to just play the blues on his guitar and sing all day, his owner, A.J. Grubbs, plans to throw Flats and his...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Nina Laden, Illustrator , illus. by Nina Laden. Holiday $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1679-0
"An exceptionally talented junkyard dog gets his due in this picture-book tribute to the blues," said PW. "Youngsters will take to this canine crooner." Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Christopher Myers, Illustrator , illus. by Christopher Myers Egmont USA $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60684-001-6
This always-inventive father and son team (Jazz
) offers up an “I am jam,” celebrating how every individual is really a collection of identities. The rap-like verse is voiced by a young narrator named Jeremy, who notices that every...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Matthew Bandsuch, Illustrator . HarperTrophy/Amistad $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-440930-8
"Returning to the setting for his 145th Street: Short Stories, the author juxtaposes a sketch of the 16-year-old narrator's home life with nuggets of wisdom delivered by the neighborhood barber with wit and tact," according to PW....
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Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Lee Harper, Harper, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-054375-4
Oswego Pete, a stringy-looking monkey, sweet-talks his four monkey friends into setting off on a quest for the "Easy Life"; even stolid Uh-Huh Freddie, the chief monkey, gets suckered into the trip. But after a lion eats half of Oswego Pete's tail,...
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Joe Morton, Read by , read by Joe Morton. HarperChildren's Audio $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52535-5
Myers provides a sincere, friendly and unscripted introduction to this chronicle of his life, quickly engaging listeners. But Myers's vocal presence is too short-lived. Though Morton enthusiastically takes the baton and gives a competent reading,
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Walter Dean Myers, Author, Rodney S. Pate, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-440-50065-0
Myers combines wit, sensitivity and insight to create this funny, fast-paced story about three orphaned children and the Elks, a Little League baseball team. T.J., his brother Moondance and their best friend Mop had all lived with the nuns in the...
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Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins/Amistad, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-172823-5
Printz winner Myers (Monster) delivers another excellent character-driven novel, this time focusing on the strength and encouragement that come from a trusted friendship. Harlem teenager Darius, a writer, wants to get out of his neighborhood and...
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Walter Dean Myers, read by Kevin R. Free. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, three CDs, 3 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-6339-3
The third installment in Myers’s Cruisers series follows the adventures of Zander—the creator of an alternative high school newspaper called The Cruiser—and his friend LaShonda, who recently won a scholarship because of her theatrical costume design.
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Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins/Amistad, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-211271-2
Published posthumously, Myers’s final novel is based on the life of Master Juba, born William Henry Lane in Providence, R.I., around 1825, who became a highly successful performer. Peopled by both historical and fictional characters, the book tells...
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Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Harper, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027709-3
The late Myers, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, powerfully examines the life of Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, exploring the role that literacy played as he endeavored to free himself from...
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