Black History Month Author Spotlight: Walter Dean MyersLike this list

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• All the Right Stuff

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

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  Teen Fiction. Working in a soup kitchen one summer, Paul DuPree is faced with big questions about his life and future. Eventually, he decides to look ahead and discovers what it really takes to take charge of his life and go somewhere.

• Hoops

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

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  Teen Fiction. A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.

• At Her Majesty's Request

  An African Princess in Victorian England

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014,

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  Juvenile Biography. Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.

• Ida B. Wells

  Let the Truth Be Told

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Juvenile Biography. Details the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching who set out to better the lives of African-Americans long before…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking Like Me

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Picture Book. Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.

• Malcolm X

  a Fire Burning Brightly

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Juvenile Biography. Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers, together with illustrator Leonard Jenkins, delivers a compelling portrayal of one of America's most influential Civil Rights figures. Malcolm X lived by the idea that Black people should…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monster

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

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  Teen Fiction. 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.

• Riot

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

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  Teen Fiction. In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and an African father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against African-Americans and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Toussaint L'Ouverture

  the Fight for Haiti's Freedom

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Juvenile Nonfiction. A collection of paintings by Jacob Lawrence chronicling the liberation of Haiti in 1804 under the leadership of General Toussaint L'Ouverture.