Showing 1–3 of 3 titles

• Author: Walter Dean Myers
• Format: Book

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  Harlem

  By Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers (Illustrator)

  Christopher Myers uses ink, gouache, and cut-paper collage to interpret his father's ode to Harlem. A kaleidoscope of words and images leads the reader on a musical journey filled with sass and swing.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780590543415
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  Scorpions

  By Walter Dean Myers

  Hoping to find a way to raise money for an appeal for his imprisoned older brother, twelve-year-old Jamal agrees to try to become the leader of his brother's Harlem gang, the Scorpions. Involvement with the gang (and the gun he is given) leads to tragedy for Jamal and his friend Tito.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1989 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780060243647
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  Somewhere in the Darkness

  By Walter Dean Myers

  Jimmy Little had always wanted a father. However, when Crab, his father, who is virtually a stranger, appears in a dark hallway straight from a prison hospital, it is not at all what he had hoped for. On the tense, frightening trip with Crab to Chicago and then to Alabama, Jimmy finds he must learn self-knowledge as well as compassion to deal with a difficult and dangerous situation.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1993 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 0-590-42411-4