I love Walter Dean Myers so I figured I would probably enjoy this book. He has a realistic view of what it's like for a young person struggling to see the point in trying to rise above street life. As someone who works in a high school with teens like Lil J, I have heard the same excuses from my ...
This book just didn't draw me in - I stopped half-way through because I really didn't find it that interesting.This book is intended for a much younger audience than most of Myers's books, which means that a lot of students expecting something more YA will be disappointed. Several characters see...
I really did not enjoy this book very much. I wouldn't say it was terrible but I wouldn't say it was good either. I found that I had to force myself to read it just to get through the book. I didn't feel like I could relate to any of the characters but that could be because I'm white and the book...
Looking Like Me, by Walter Dean Myers, was a very different kind of book that I have read. I did not know what to think of about it when I first started reading it. I didn’t quite understand where the book was going until I realized it was a poetry book. I thought that towards the middle of the b...
David Curry doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben, whose violent out bursts and chilling nightmares torment his family. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But lately, even Tyrone isn't acting like himself.Then David meets the mysterious Mr. Moses, who tells him that dreams...
The book that im reading is called monster and the author is Walter dean Myers it's a realistic fiction. The book includes real events that happen in everyday life or in the ghetto. It has a lesson that its goes like you get in trouble cause your in a wrong place at wrong time or you hang with th...
Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels. It is about America and the Vietnam War. Well as said by the main character in the book, Richie Perry. He goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon. The book has 4...
In the memoir Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers, Walter recalls the most important events of his life year by year. His story is about living with racism and being called a “bad boy” when really he was not. The main idea or message from Bad Boy is no matter what your surroundings and society may be yo...
A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street. We get to know the oldest resident; the cop on the beat; fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie; Monkeyman; and Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout. We meet Angela, who starts having prophetic dreams after her ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. The...
A quick read and appropriate for a young reader. The book cover doesn't draw attention to pick up this book, but I did like how the story unfolded in introducing a troubled child to find his voice and see that his words and action can make a difference. This book was culled from our school libr...
The music was brilliant and the story, as our teacher described it, exciting. Some of the music even sounded vaguely familiar.Harlem was full of music when I was growing up. If you started on 125th Street at Broadway and made your way cross town toward the East River, you could actually hear the ...
Michael was saying that we should start packing up to go home. He was collecting his mail, and I saw the clerk hand him a small leather pouch. “Maybe just hang in London for a day or two and then split.” It sounded good to me, and I immediately started thinking of buying gifts for Mrs. Rosario an...
While we looked, we were also running down our viewpoints about girls, because Ricky had some funny ideas. “The reason Puerto Rican girls are the best-looking is that we got the best mixture,” Ricky said. “We got African blood, Spanish blood, and just the right mixture of Taino, which is Indian. ...
Don’t go dark on me, Darius. It was as if I were invisible, and alone in my invisibleness. Looking down at the street, not being seen by the kids or the old-timers taking their places for the night, I felt untouchable. The way I felt Fury would be untouchable. Day sounds, buses honking, children ...
Maxine peered over her Armani glasses as she sipped a double latte. “He got Martin Luther King, Jr.’s message all wrong. Harrison Boyd does not have a dream, he’s got a scheme. What do you need his sorry butt for?” “Maxine, maybe you don’t understand what it is to love a black man who has hopes t...
Viola worked in electronics, and she and her husband, Frank, had bought a house in Queens. Geraldine moved up to 147th Street, within walking distance, with her husband, a Navy veteran named Norman, and I got my own room. I had begun to sense that there was a way for people to live, and that it w...
I hadn’t had any visitors, so when Mr. Wilson called me out of the dayroom Sunday afternoon I thought it was a mistake. “Who is it?” I asked. “Your mother and sister,” he said with a grin. “I might have to steal your little sister, she’s so cute.” &...
One day the music Was loud enough and the Rhythm strong enough to Push her too far into the Night To ever turn back. She is my flesh and blood, Big boned as I am big boned Uncomfortable in Her skin. Now she lives in shadow and memory Her mind a cluttered shelf In a narrow hallway closet Her life ...
CHAPTER ELEVEN Sarah lived in a two-room flat on Church Street, off Edgware Road. It was a nice area with lots of small shops and restaurants that sold food I had never seen before. “Many of the people here are French,” she said. “They mind their own business.” She made tea and served some cakes ...
There was a lot of activity around me and I looked up and saw Roberts’s guys stringing concertina wire around the perimeter of the camp. I figured they must have been expecting an attack. The M-16 felt heavy in my arms. Two deep breaths gave me enough energy to head back to the tent where Jonesy ...
NEW YORK CITY—JULY, PRESENT DAYAERIAL SHOT. As the camera zooms in, we see the city below, with its skyscrapers jutting boldly into the sky high above the street-level chaos. As the camera comes closer, we see the blur of vehicles in the city streets.The camera comes even lower, and we see rapidl...
From the park below it looks like a small bird. No, it doesn’t look like a small bird, but what else could it be? At the end of a bench, a young man holds up a running shoe. “It doesn’t weigh anything.” “That’s the thing,” Twig said. “There’s going to be nothing keeping me back except gravity. Wh...
Whenever I turned to look at someone who I felt was staring, we’d make eye contact for a brief second before they turned away quickly. It reminded me of three years ago when my dad died and people looked at me like I was the one who had died. Except this time it was different. I didn’t really min...
Da Vinci Academy for the Gifted and Talented is one of those schools that’s always getting experimented on. This year’s major experiment was what Mrs. Maxwell, our principal (and a good lady), called the Independent Learning Project. Any kid who wanted to get extra AP credit could pick a subject,...
If he’d told her the truth, that he was going to fight again, he knew she would have cried. “You’re not going to eat anything?” she asked. “No, I’m not hungry,” he said. He had seen her making supper, and had known that he wouldn’t be eating anything. “Don’t stay out too late,” she said. She reac...
“They want your mother to come along, too,” Loretta said. “I think that’s good, don’t you?” Crystal said that it probably was. The meeting was at L’Auberge d’Hiver restaurant. Loretta wore a simple Calvin Klein dress but with outrageous earrings. Carol Brown wore a dress she had bought just that ...
I was watching Night of the Dancing Zombies in HD on the television and the same movie on my netbook in Korean. They came on at the same time but the television version was ahead of the netbook version and I was trying to warn the dudes on netbook what was about to go down. It was like I could se...