Bad Boy : A Memoir
ISBN: 9780064472883 | 0064472884
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date: 1/14/2010
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In his own words... As a boy, Walter Dean Myers was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously-he would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. He aspired to be a writer. But growing up in a poor family in Harlem, his hope for a successful future diminished as he came to realize fully the class and racial struggles that surrounded him. He began to doubt himself and the values that he had always relied on, attending high school less and less, turning to the streets and his books for comfort. In a memoir that is gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers travels back to his roots in the magical world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the story of one of the strongest voices in young people's literature today.
| Roots | p. 1 |
| Harlem | p. 7 |
| Let's Hear It for the First Grade! | p. 17 |
| Arithmetic Summer | p. 27 |
| Bad Boy | p. 35 |
| Mr. Irwin Lasher | p. 48 |
| I Am Not the Center of the Universe | p. 65 |
| A Writer Observes | p. 78 |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | p. 90 |
| Heady Days at Stuyvesant High | p. 101 |
| The Garment Center | ... MOREp. 114 |
| God and Dylan Thomas | p. 130 |
| Marks on Paper | p. 142 |
| The Stranger | p. 155 |
| Dr. Holiday | p. 165 |
| Being Black | p. 174 |
| 1954 | p. 180 |
| Sweet Sixteen | p. 188 |
| The Typist | p. 199 |
| Books I've Typed | p. 207 |
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Walter Dean Myers is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for young people. He has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature and is a five time winner of the Goretta Scott King Award. His many titles include monster, the 2000 Michael L. Printz Award winner, National Book Award Finalist, Goretta Scott King Honor Book, and Boston Glole-Horn Book Honor Book; Malcolm x: A Fire Burning Brightly, illustrated by Leonard Jenkins: the Caldecott Honor Book Harlem, illustrated By Christopher Myers; and the Newbery Honor Books Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness. Walter Dean Myers lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family.
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