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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 fil...
A classic and highly acclaimed biography of civil rights activist Malcolm X, ever more relevant for today's readers. As a 14-year-old he was Malcolm L...
From beloved author Walter Dean Myers, this original 20-page short story serves as a prequel to his award-winning novel Monster, which has been read a...
A Printz Award Winner
This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and...
Sixtee-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in li...
“Captures the excitement that Ali created in a generation of young African Americans, who found in the brash, young boxer a new kind of hero.” —...
An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults New Bonus Content: -Q&A with Walter Dean Myers -Q&A with screenwriter John Ballard -Teaser chapter from On a C...
When you look in a mirror, who do you see? A boy? A girl? A son? A daughter? A runner? A dancer? Whoever and whatever you see―just put out your fist...
Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story about Steve Harmon, a teenager awaiting trial for a murder and robbery. As Steve acc...
A Memoir
A classic memoir that's gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling former National Ambassador of Books for Young People. A str...
The Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice o...
Lockdown is the powerful tale of fourteen-year-old Reese Anderson, who has spent 22 months in a tiny cell at a “progress center.” Living in fear a...
A young black boy must decide whether to go along with his father, who is a thief, or reject his father's way of life and risk losing him....
Illustrations and text celebrate the roots of jazz music....
The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, an...
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks! With an Introduction by National Ambassador of Youn...
After writing more than one hundred books, it still amazes me that I have been lucky enough to spend most of my life doing what I truly love: writing....
A stunning graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers's New York Times bestseller Monster. Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-...
This groundbreaking novel in verse from Walter Dean Myers—two-time Newbery Honor winner and five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner—is a modern-...
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FA...
A powerful novel of drugs, violence—and second chances. Dope Sick, from two-time Newbery Honor winner and five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner ...
A powerful National Book Award Finalist from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Monster. "This novel is like photorealism; it paints a vivid and gen...
Jimmy hasn't seen his father in nine years....
The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most celebrated figures of the twentieth century. Set against key moments of the civil rights movement, here...
Five devoted friends become landlords and try to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live....
Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq. Birdy and the oth...
New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers tackles the social contract from a teen’s perspective in his novel All the Right Stuff. In one o...
An Album of Pictures and Verse
Join acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers in a heartwarming celebration of African-American childhood in words and pictures. Sharing favorites from his ...
Short Stories
Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem....
Poems in Many Voices
Celebrates the people of Harlem with first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood, including basketball pl...
Complete with timeline and glossary, a picture book for young readers provides a collection of poetry that celebrates this uniquely American music and...
Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 19...
An African Princess in Victorian England
Biography of Omo'ba (aka Princess) Aina (Sarah Forbes Bonetta (later Davies)) (1843-1880), Goddaughter of Queen Victoria....
An American Soldier in Vietnam
A story-poem in it a frightened American soldier faces combat in the lush forests of Vietnam....
Stuff doesn't know anyone when he first moves to 116th Street. But all of that changes when he meets Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Gloria. Stuff and the g...
Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. C...
For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with a teen, Ross Workman....
Long ago, when the earth had not settled in its turning and the stars had not found their places in the night sky, there were three kingdoms. The firs...
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A Novel
A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scand...