Myers, Walter Dean

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My Name is America

Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.

145th street

short stories
2020
Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem.

AT HER MAJESTY'S REQUEST

The greatest

Muhammad Ali
2018
An illustrated biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali that addresses his politics, his fight against Parkinson's disease, and boxing's dangers.

Sunrise over Fallujah

Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
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Shooter

Teachers, therapists, law enforcement officials, and others try to piece together the facts in the aftermath of a tragedy in which Len, a high school senior fed up with being bullied, shoots and kills a football hero and then commits suicide.
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Somewhere in the darkness

A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of painful discovery for them both.
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Blues journey

Contains blues lyrics that chronicle the history of the African-American experience, and includes information about the development of blues music.
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The beast

A teenager from Harlem struggles to save his girlfriend from herself when she develops a drug problem while he is away at a Connecticut prep school.
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Monster

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 film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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