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Handbook for boys

a novel

by Myers, Walter Dean & Bandsuch, Matthew

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 h...

Handbook for Boys

A Novel

by Myers, Walter Dean & Bandsuch, Matthew

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 h...

The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

A World War II Soldier

by Myers, Walter Dean

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subseq...

'Amistad'

A Long Road to Freedom

by Myers, Walter Dean

Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and mu...

Slam!

by Myers, Walter Dean

Sixteen-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 life, but ...

A Place Called Heartbreak

A Story of Vietnam

by Myers, Walter Dean & Haley, Alex & Porter, Frederick

Describes the ordeal of Major Fred Cherry, who was shot down in combat over Vietnam and spent seven-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.

Somewhere in the Darkness

by Myers, Walter Dean

Summary: 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 th...

The Mouse Rap

by Myers, Walter Dean

During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capon...