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African Americans Biography African Americans Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction African Americans Social conditions To 1964 Juvenile literature Prisons Fiction Self-perception Fiction Self-perception Juvenile fiction Trials (Murder) Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Participation, African American Juvenile literatureMyers, Walter Dean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.8 MYECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 998 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A biography of the civil rights leader offers an in-depth look at his life and includes quotes from speeches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB MALCOLM X MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem travels across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, and inspires an entire continent with their unique brand of jazz music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad/HarperTempest 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: 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 subsequent battles to liberate France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen/Amistad 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Myers 2013Myers, Walter Dean
Summary: This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MyersMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Biography of Walter Dean Myers which describes the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s: a loving home life with his adopted parents, Bible school, street games, and the vitality of his neighborhood. Although Walter spent much of his time either getting into trouble or on the basketball court, secretly he was a voracious reader and an aspiring writer. But as his prospects for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 813.54 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A blues poem that revisits the history of the African American experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: The true story of the African American heroes of World War I, the soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, dubbed the Harlem Hellfighters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: As 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, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At twenty, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MALMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1988
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYESummary: From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015