17-year-old Anthony 'Spoon' Witherspoon is returning to Harlem after 7 months at an exclusive prep school. He never wanted to leave the city in the first place - especially not to walk the hallowed halls of a mostly white New England ...
Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disres...
Monster' is what the prosecutor called 16-year-old Steve Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the 'all clear' to the murderer, or was he just in the...
Fallen Angels (Special Anniversary)
Walter Dean MyersAn exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the...
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Walter Dean MyersDIVAs a fourteen–year–old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem, he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At nineteen, ...
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. A Coretta ...