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Harlem Summer

by Myers, Walter Dean

In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking Africa...

Jazz

by Myers, Walter Dean

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

Antarctica

journeys to the South Pole

by Myers, Walter Dean

Stories of the expedition parties that explored the Antarctica including James Cook, the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle, the Amundsen expedition ...

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...

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...