Myers, Walter Dean

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

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.

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.

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

A frightened American soldier faces combat in the lush forests of Vietnam.

A guide to the writing process, covering story, language, detail, character, writing an outline, and more.

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

A collection of illustrated poems that celebrate the roots and various styles of jazz music, such as ragtime, bebop, and swing.